Keep The Aspidistra Flying

by Keep The Aspidistra Flying

HTML,,In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, a discontented and embittered young man, who believes that “all modern commerce is a swindle,” attempts to drop out of the monetary system altogether. He refuses to advance himself in life, obstinately defying pressure from family and friends. He falls willingly into the mire of poverty and self-neglect, until he is trapped by circumstances into embracing the very values that he formerly despised. Gordon Comstock is twenty-nine years old, is well educated, and comes from a middle-class background. As the novel opens, he is working as an assistant in a bookstore in London.

248 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2023

Reviews

[edus k · Rating 4 out of 5]

‘The mistake you make, don’t you see, is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You’re trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can’t. One’s got to change the system, or one changes nothing.’
Money, money, money.
I spent the whole time feeling so annoyed at Gordon for his RUDE attitude towards his sister and friends but also asking myself if I would also be like him it I was 30 and moth-eaten and living off £2 a week.

[Teh Kah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable read, quite well paced. In the end we all surrender to money🤷‍♀️ aspidistra jokes lowk funny

[Kashifa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Money-worship has been elevated to religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion- the only really felt good religion that is left to us. Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except success and failure.
the world in which money is virtue and poverty is a crime
better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven
coffin of a 'good' job
not a 'good' job but a job that would keep his body without wholly buying his soul
his mind was sticky with boredom