Texting Orwell

by Ian Little

[Angie]

What unfolds within Texting Orwell's 60 pages is one man's journey to send a text to the woman he's been crushing on for months. It's an awkward ride as he delivers packages around town (meeting some interesting characters along the way), and constantly writes and rewrites messages until he can form the perfect text. Followed by the stress of replying to her reply, and some random side thoughts about chocolate and bowel movements. Yeah, awkward is probably the best work to describe the story.

The writing style reminds me of those old cartoons where the characters are mostly silent, but there's a narrator telling you each and everything that's happening on the screen. For a full-length novel, that would be extremely annoying, but I think it kind of worked for this novella. However, if you have a strong dislike for "telling" versus showing, this won't be the story for you. It's also very British. Not that that's a bad thing, but there were quite a few times where I had to re-read in order to understand what was meant. What could have been an extremely humorous and cute tale, ultimately fell flat for me.

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