Off Topic: Question of literature

[Subash]

On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 20:48:47 +0100
"Bob W" <pdml at web-options.com> wrote:


> Aldous Huxley is also a good suggestion - he was influenced strongly
> by Yevgeny Zamytatin ('We'). George Orwell, too. Although they only
> use 'sci-fi' loosely as a mechanism for political comment, the writing
> is exceptional. Especially Orwell's - I consider him to be one of the
> top maybe 10 writers of English since the 16th century.

+1. :-) apart from animal farm and of course 1984, there's this essay i
read (long back) on shooting an elephant in burma or something close to
that (title) which was just brilliant. have to hunt it up again....

regards, subash