Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Audiobook)

from eglinton

Young Gordon Comstock rejects responsibility and the binds of respectability, seeking instead, in 1930s London, to live out the trope of a starving garret writer. And he gets what he bargained for: dismal surroundings, grinding poverty, failure. London scenes are nicely observed and depicted, and...

from HistReader

Just when I grew tired of Gordon Comstock's stream of consciousness tirade against money, the dead horse topic wove one experience with the next remarkable experience for the main character of Keep the Aspidistra Flying. I am sure I have said it before, if it wasn't for my first encounter with Or...

from ts.

This book was not particularly enjoyable, but it is still a book that I wish everyone to have read. It is important because of its topic - modern society that we live in, uncontesting and blind to its faults and alternatives - the commercialization of our lives and the capitalist religion to whic...

from yooperprof

Warning - if you are one of those people who can't stand novels without "sympathetic" central characters, "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" is not for you. Gordon Comstock is one of the most pathetic figures in twentieth century novels. He's one of those annoying artistic-type people who inflict unhap...

from mamzel

Gordon Comstock is raging his own private war against money. He turns down a decent job writing copy for an ad agency and takes a job working in a used book store. His goal is to suffer for his art which is poetry. However, poverty isn't everything it's cracked up to be. He has a sister that depr...