Burmese Days

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  This was the first novel by George Orwell. Whilst it depicts correctly the stereotype British men and for that matter women from overseas (the ones normally lingering in the hongkong club equivalent), there is nothing really enlightening about the men of the orients, especially the burman. There i ... (continue)

  This was the first novel by George Orwell. Whilst it depicts correctly the stereotype British men and for that matter women from overseas (the ones normally lingering in the hongkong club equivalent), there is nothing really enlightening about the men of the orients, especially the burman. There is not enough cultural description and there is nothing about burmese characteristic, which is disppointing. However, having said all that, it is still basically a good-read, especially when you are doing nothing and lying around in a pool in yangoon.

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  Oz said on Mar 30, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• Very, very dreary and depressing

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  Comrade1 said on Nov 25, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• First of Orwell's novels, just back from the East and still relatively young. Feels like I'm there, with the colonials and their gins, as well as the locals and their intriguing. Being familiar with the place helps, of course. Good read.

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  KillingTime said on Jan 14, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  I was totally absorbed by this first novel by Orwell. It's really about how he saw life in Burma. He joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma in his early 20's and came to see the way the English treated the Indian. He loathed the attitude of the English to the Indian.

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  I was totally absorbed by this first novel by Orwell. It's really about how he saw life in Burma. He joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma in his early 20's and came to see the way the English treated the Indian. He loathed the attitude of the English to the Indian.

  Orwell is so wonderfully descriptive of all around him: the flowers, the forest, the rains, and the life of the Burmese.

  The story is full of such delightfully real characters: Ellis, who hates the Burmese, wanting any excuse to shoot them, to trample them underfoot, to grind them into the dust. He is not delightful, but he's real, true to life. Then there is Flory, the coward, who wants so much to help his Burmese friend the doctor but can never find the courage to do so because of the taunts and jeers of his English colleagues - until pushed to the limit he suddenly speaks out. Orwell portrays human nature in all its variety in this greatly entertaining, yet serious, book.

  I loved it!

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  GraJon said on Jul 19, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Bootleg edition. Photocopied in thin paper, and color cover.

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  rogersm said on Oct 22, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 287 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0436350017
• ISBN-13: 9780436350016
• Publisher: Secker & Warburg
• Pub date: Dec 01, 1949
• Also available as: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Softcover, Others and eBook
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