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Let me just be frank for a moment... that "virus" thing was not fun.

Unless getting chased around the house by your own broom-wielding mother is your idea of fun.

Umm. Moving right along. Anyone else like reading? I'm a big George Orwell fan, myself.

[ooc: will tag this afternoon. I haz job now :3]

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Orwell? May I ask what he has written?

Well, the work most people think of when Orwell's mentioned is a dystopian piece where free will and common sense is carefully stripped away from people.

The main character eventually joins a rebel group to oppose the government which is constantly changing history into lies and making people disappear, only to find that the rebel group was a fake group established to catch people who were discontent with the government. The rest of the book is spent on the torture and interrogation of the main character, wherein he is eventually forced to believe that two plus two equals five.

Interesting. It sounds like a world that would be ... informative to visit.

I read a bit in my spare time.

Orwell was a master, certainly, but I prefer more weathered classics, myself.

Such as?

Oh, any of the greats. Wells, Hugo, Melville. I've read Dickens but I find him sort of...dense. Either of the Brontes tell a good story, but I don't often reread them.

I would consider myself to be one who reads avidly.

Orwell is not whom I'd consider a favorite; I have, however, enjoyed his works. Though readers with a more ... optimistic view would call his outlook of the world 'morbid' or 'depressing' I find much of his analysis accurate.

Certainly, while both 1984 and Animal Farm were both written to satire Stalinist Russia communism, I believe it's certainly applicable to modern times.

George... Orwell?

I got turned into a tiger! That was fun~

And I like romance novels~

Lucky you.

Don't read romance novels. They give you unrealistic expectations about love.

All thoughts of love are unrealistic, actually. I just like reading them~

I don't do too much reading, but I enjoy a good book now and then.

Now, Komachi will go through a bookshelf in one sitting.

Orwell is an English great. We're nearly required to read at least one of his novels.

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