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Summary: one of the best books ever...
Review: This book is brilliant...it's about a society who have been over worked and wronged who finally realizes the they are important as the people who overwork and insalve them..so they revolt and start a revolution. They stand up for their rights...they win the revolution and start there own consitution and live there lives ..but than a hilter like figure sneaky pushes his way to the top and weasels his way to dictatoship...they again must fight against one of their own...what makes this book brillant is that it's twist is it's throu the animals eyes...so is why it's called animal farm. This is a must have in any libary...
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Summary: Don't Let the Title Fool You
Review: I was asigned this book to read during the summer for school, and at first I thought it would be ridiculous. A book about animals taking over a farm? Boring. Well, it wasn't. It was a tremendous book, and I think I'll read it again just for fun. A story about how power can drive an animal, or a person, to do things that they'd never think of doing. A dispute between leaders and the ruining of a utopian dream. This book covers the aspects of the things that can destroy our own society, and teaches you a great lesson at the end. This book is in a class of its own.
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Summary: Simple Truths
Review: Such a simple, childlike tale. The story it tells, though, is very adult, very dark--and, as eastern Europe and a lot of the rest of the world could testify, it hits the truth dead center.By the way--am I the only one who finds dramatic similarities between ANIMAL FARM and the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again?"
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Summary: Orwell Cans Communism¿s Conniving Comrades
Review: If you know zilch about the history of the late, unlamented USSR, skip this book, you're not going to get it. The more you know, the more you're bound to admire one of the 20th century's great satires---maybe its greatest. Capitalism, Communism, Lenin, the October Revolution, the Interventions, Stalin, Trotsky, Beria, the KGB, Hitler and the Fascist invasion---all these and more are in there. Orwell savagely attacks the Communist system as it turned out in fact in the USSR, not as it was originally envisioned. Along the way, the various foibles of human nature and fatal tendencies of ruling classes everywhere are held up to his pitiless examination. I will not give a runthrough of the story, but the idea is that animals, representing the working class, overthrow people, representing capitalists, and establish a workers' state---called Animal Farm. Overall, Orwell leads to the question: haven't we gone beyond our abilities to control technology and scientific knowledge ? Our political skills have not kept pace. Since Orwell completed his novel in 1945, the last section of the book, about what would happen to the Soviet Union under Communist plutocrats, was necessarily speculation for him (not for us). In some ways, ANIMAL FARM turned out to be uncannily correct, but in others, passé, because we know what happened thanks to our 57 years' hindsight. Orwell did not predict the rise of the satellite states in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, nor did he see that the building of heavy industry would be co-opted by the armaments race, bankrupting Animal Farm and ultimately bringing it down without a war. But the pigs eventually did turn into humans (i.e. workers became capitalists). Because Communism has crumbled, especially in the former USSR, people may feel ANIMAL FARM is no longer relevant. That would be wrong. We can't justly distribute resources or maintain the planet's environment. Think of the billions of impoverished people, massive pollution, the unending ecological destruction and the menace of genetically engineered everything. Now, more than ever, it seems that our world is an Animal Farm. When we protest, it is made perfectly clear to us---all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. The Pigs, Dogs, and Sheep are always with us. If you don't understand what I'm talking about, read this book.
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Summary: I am working on this farm
Review: I had to read this book in high school. I recently picked up and read it again. I have an appreciated for this now more than ever. I am working on this farm as we speak. However, I am fortune enough to realize it and will be making my departure very soon. It is unfortune but very common that the oppress often become the oppressors... as with the management on my current platform. However, I have learned a great deal. I have also created an understanding that education is the key. Ignorance and fear of the unknown blocks individual true potential. Often it is when it is to late.
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Summary: Great Satire
Review: Animal Farm is a book that I actually decided to read (gasp) for fun. Anyway, I thought this was a great book and it can be read by just about anyone (children 10 and up), but it takes some knowledge of the Russian Revolution to get the whole meaning of this book. This book is basically about a farm that is taken over by animals. At first, things go great until Napoleon (Stalin) siezes absolute power and expels Snowball (Trotsky) from Animal Farm. Napoleon proves to be a tyrant and he takes advantage of the rest of the animals (general public) because they are gullible and are basically Napoleon's puppets throughout the whole book. My favorite characters are Moses, (The Church) and Squealer, who is the pig that spreads the propoganda around the farm. This is a very good book and EVERYONE should read it once in their life.
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Summary: Sneaky..
Review: This book is an awesome book. Its extremely clever. When I first picked it up I thought it was a corny book about animals taking over a farm. But as I got more and more into it- I realized it was about types of governments- such as Communism, etc. And Utopia. I think this is an excellent book- but do not start this book thinking that it is all about animals- there is much more behind it. I recommend it to anyone who really wants to read deeply into a book.
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Summary: Funny, Ironic humor. A true timeless American classic.
Review: Just as the title says, you will love this one. I first read it way back in High School; part of my required readings for my English class. There is good reason it is required in many schools- A timeless classic. Makes you enjoy reading.
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Summary: satire at it's height
Review: yes, you guessed it: English class. It took me some time to get the real meaning of this book, but the lessons I learned have been with me ever since. I never really knew what satire was until I read this book and now I applaud it. A terrific read and thoroughly inticing plot. Animals that talk? There's so much more to it than that...a great find.
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Summary: terrific satire
Review: Animal Farm is kind of confusing because of its allegorical-historical nature. It's hard to keep track of the animals and who they really represent, you'd probably have to go back and check who's who (Napoleon = Stalin, Snowball = Trotsky). Also, you have to know a chunk of Russian Communism to get in touch with this. But in essence, this story is brilliant. Orwell is brilliant. He has encapsulated Communism into this dark but hilarious satire. Animal Farm will make you laugh, cry in outrage, and most of all horrify you with Napoleon's blatant hypocrisy (but of course the animals don't notice, ahem). Squealer the pig also topped my list as outrageous. He's like the spokesperson who reports new rules and is the great Napoleon defender (squeal!). The sheep are absolutely funny, who have nothing to bleat but "Four legs good, two legs bad!" until they are trained to follow a new chant: "Four legs good, two legs better!" Makes you think of the masses - they believe anything they are told. Watch out for the wickedly terrific ending. This book is such a riot. It's a hoot. And it was horrifyingly real.
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