Not at all, I found them really hard to put down. He does an incredible job of recreating his experience. I think both, to some extent, were an effort to get away from his middle-class upbringing and immersive himself in a different world.
In Down and Out he's working in the steam-filled organized chaos of a Parisian kitchen in the 1930's, his journalistic writing experience and attention to detail meant he could make you feel like you were there.
The Road to Wigan Pier is an incredible piece of Social journalism, he visited working-class families in the North of England during the 1930's to learn about their experience and record it for posterity. He spoke to people nobody else was interested in and recorded details about their lives that nobody else had asked. It's really insightful and he does a good job of making it engaging.
We is brilliant, a work of dystopian brilliance, it's a shame it isn't as well known as 1984 and BNW.
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