I kept shaking my head and muttering, "He's a genius, he's a genius, he's a genius" the entire time I was reading this. Orwell has floored me. The first half of the book is, undeniably, more engaging and perhaps my favourite, but the second is thought provoking and upfront, and I enjoyed it thoroughly as well. This is my first experience of Orwell the nonfiction writer and I anticipate being a lover of these books as opposed to his fiction (which I still love because--it's Orwell but his nonfiction is too bloody good).