Animal Farm

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Summary: Possibly the greatest,shortest book ever written.
Review: I just finished reading Animal Farm. the thing that amazed me the most was the fact that Orwell gave his thoughts and views in a little over a hundred pages.Beautifully written.

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Summary: Politically great; Realistically no
Review: I found that reading Animal Farm was extremely boring. According to politics it was dead on, but the way Orwell chose to illistrate his views was obserd. Pigs climbing on ladders painting, animals talking, and; "all animals are equal, but some are more equal." That is just plain stupid. Please someone tell me how to be more equal if everyone is already equal.I would never ask anyone to read this book. 1984 is a much better work than Animal Farm.

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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: I had to read this book for school, and thought that it was very good. Although the animals might seem a little silly, when the book is taken in the context of an allegory to communism, it makes more sense. In my English class we had to actually study Russian history and then relate it to the text (i.e. Snowball represents Trotsky). It was very helpfull. Perhaps the animals seem exceedingly stupid because Orwell was trying to satirise communism and so felt it necessary to exagerate. I think most of the kids in my class liked this book.

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Summary: Almost perfect fictional explaination (art copying life).
Review: This book gives indepth detail on how the idealism and injustice give way to a new hope only tho be dashed by those og impure qualities. The book is the one of the best explaniations to the collapse of the soviet union from the revolution to the counter-revolution to its final demise. Very well thought out. Highly recommended.

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Summary: The Prelude to something even greater...
Review: Many people view this piece of work in light of Orwell's greatest triumph "Nineteen Eighty-Four". While lacking the depth of its successor, "Animal Farm" deserves to stand as a brilliant and insightful piece of fiction in its own right.

Orwell pulls no punches when satarising the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution with clear symbolism that is obvious to anyone who has knowledge of that period. Orwell forces his damning opinions upon, without alarming the reader because of his unique prose.

The best way to think of this book is to say that "Animal Farm" is the entree and "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is the main course, but still consider this novel in its own right.

* Oh, and to any school children who think the animals were silly and unrealistic, they're SYMBOLIC, look it up sometime...

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Summary: a total disappointment
Review: I came to read this book because of many recomendations made by friends and teachers and to my supprise, it was bad. This author went on and on explaining every intimate detail boring me to tears. I don't recommend it at all.

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Summary: It was plain and simply boring!
Review: Those animals were very stupid. They didn't know what they wanted. Throughout the book they were changing the rules. By reading the first page you could already tell that there type of government was going to fail. Stupid ending.

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Summary: Interesting allegory
Review: George Orwell creates an interesting story both literally and symbolically. The reading is rather easy, and the story is somewhat short, but it is all-together a nice, compelling story with historical significance.

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Summary: George Orwell shows us amazing depth of thought again.
Review: Animal Farm.. What can I say? I read the whole book in 5 hours straight (from when I first opened it until I finished it, with breaks for work). Amazing insight into how power corrupts, and how it is very easy to lose sight of reality. Heck, I was reminded of how Stalin setup his original powerbase, and how Trotsky was blamed for all ill in Russia after he was exiled. If you read it, Napolean and Snowball set the stage for this character conflict. An amazingly thought provoking book. Read it if nothing else this month.

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Summary: The truth about us
Review: This masterpiece of Orwell is showing us the whole truth about politics and society. Forget the good ideas, the brilliant political theories. In democracy, monarchy or in a dictatorship. In capitalism or in communism( indeed the best theory), the Napoleon-pigs will win and the sheeps will follow. This isn't a nice children book, it's hard stuff, but you have to read it!