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Summary: Amazing novel for 1945¿.good one for today.
Review: This book is a fable, Orwell's prediction of how Communism would work. The story is about how a bunch of animals took over a farm from humans, installing a government that started working perfectly as it was based on idealistic concepts, but turned corrupt with time. An excellent plot review is available in this page's editorial review. The book is short and very easy too read (almost to easy), the narrative is simple and entertaining, again, like a fable.But what is the strongest side of Animal Farm? For me, the time period when it was written. This means, that today you will enjoy this book, but not as much as somebody who read it when it was first published. For example, if you read the book thinking that it was written last year, you would probably think that it's ok, another interesting form of telling the story of Communism, but just that. To really appreciate the novel you have to bear in mind who Orwell was and when did he write the book. But it is definetely a worth reading novel, a well spent couple of hours.
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Summary: How Could Animals Taste so Bland?
Review: Tastelessly Powerful By Luke Link This book was somewhat bland. It showed the outlook on communism versus sociallism and the actions Stallen and the communist government made, though was a litle tasteless. As a pleasure book, Animal Farm would not be a selection of mine. It is one of the more impacting books of our time, but yields little reading pleasure and detail. When I read through the book,I found that the analogies to the characters in which the book portrayed were accurate. Napoleon was written well and played the part of what would have been Stalin, well. All of the major players in the communist socialist game were personnified well in Animal Farm. This book has relevance today, in that it showed the outlook on events that occurred during the time of the communistically idealistic society, which impacted the thoughts of people and changed society to become a power hungry, consumer dependant socialist government, well, I guess there is a plus and a minus to everything. The words of this book have echoed through generations, and "The Beasts of England" has taken a more human-acceptable form, affecting us all, and our thankfully sociallist economy, greatly.
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Summary: Dont care
Review: The book "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, was a great book. The book was about a farm that was taken over by the animals. When the animals take over they decide to keep it under control. The only problem is that it just like before only instead of the owner (Mr.Joans) it's the two young pigs napoleon and snowball. Another problem is napoleon and snowball are agents each other cause snowball wants the farm to be a democracy and napoleon wanted it to be a communism. This book shows great symbolism with animals and forms of government. It shows totalitarianism, communism, democracy, and anarchy. I think this is a good book for guys that are interested in destruction and action.
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Summary: One of the best book I have read!
Review: I like the book very much, because it's very interesting. There is a revolution between animals. The pigs are teh better animals. The other animals have to work. The best character is Boxer. Boxer works and works and works. He also works longer than the other animals. I think hi is also a very strong character. This is the reason why I like him. When you will read the book, you will see that it is very interesting.
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Summary: My review
Review: I go to a commercial school in Austria and I had the pleasure to read this book for a booktalk in English. The book is about a Farm where animals make a revolution and chase the farmowner with his family. For a while everything works great and everybody is happy. But on and on the pigs, who make the organization part on the farm, get more and more like humans. They even change "the seven rules of Animalsm" one by one and in the end the other animals can not divide them from humans, which used to be their enemies and then are the friends of the pigs. The book is written in an easy way. I like is because it shows us that animals aren't very different to us and that sometimes you can't trust anyone.
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Summary: A must read for all technical experts.
Review: Never mind communism and the workers' paradise. This tale shows exactly what happens when technical experts in high-tech fields decide to support the venture capitalists' new team of management "experts" over the founding management team, instead of hitting the silk at the first sign of trouble. The new management faction follows this familiar sequence, making use of the techies' unfortunate habit of continuing to work hard until it's too late: - wins the technical experts over with their inspiring slogans and "vision" for the company's future - demonizes the original members of the management team to keep the techies from following them out the door as each is ousted - invests heavily in ideas unrelated to the core business that go nowhere but sound good in press releases - works the techies to exhaustion supporting the ideas that go nowhere but sound good - reorganizes the techies' roles out of existence and lays them off, replacing them with inexpensive, compliant drones to boost the short-term profit picture - quickly sells the empty shell for a profit to a clueless winning management team at another company, which then uses the shell as its one of its own ideas that go nowhere but look good in press releases - hires into another unsuspecting company that has a great product and thinks it needs some management experts so it can grow - starts the whole cycle over again. This is also known as the "ichneumon fly effect" among its techie victims. Look up "ichneumon fly" in a Yahoo! search or an encyclopedia to see why. And read "Animal Farm" again to see how our own capitalist piglets have managed to lead the sheep astray. This is still an important book.
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Summary: A give away
Review: Although this book helped me comprhend the symbolism of Animal Farm, i often found that it gave away future parts of the book. For example, i would read the comentary of chapter three, and it would give away a critical event that comes on much later in the book. In addition, i did not think that it interpereted all the symbolism that Orwell used. My advise if you are going to read Animal Farm, is to try a different source of notes.
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Summary: Great but not for everybody
Review: Animal farm describes the communist system very successfully in a mix of humour and background knowledge. But still or actually because of that Orwell's novel is a book for someone, predominantly for someone who doesn't know anything about communism. Because its aspects can be easily recognized and easily understood. In my opinion, though, it is a pity that the novel offers so little suspense. From a special point on the reader can recognize how the storyline will develop. It can be seen by the story of the pigs, because it is obvious that they transform step by step to human beings. This is a fact that takes much suspense off the novel. In addition the novel is written in an easy style, hence everybody is able to understand its intention. All in all in my opinion Animal Farm is no big challenge, but mostly boring.
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Summary: Animal Farm
Review: My Comment on Animal Farm I think animal farm is a good novel for anyone who is interested in the Russian history. The language is kept simple so its easy to read and to understand. Because of this novel, it is a lot easier to understand what happened during the time of the Russian Revolution. All in all I think that Orwell made a good job of this novel by resetting all that had happened, and transforming it to the animal world.
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Summary: Interesting political satire
Review: Animal Farm is a well written and interesting political satire. Orwell has fullfilled his job to illustrate the developement of dictatorship by giving animals the characters of humans. The novel isn't just a story of some animals living on a farm, their characters refer to real existing humans who lived under the Soviet Communism. The allegory may give away information about the further process and the developement may be obvious sometimes, but the thoughts and feelings of the animals prevent the novel from getting boring. Furthermore there are still some unexpected incidents, i.e. Boxer's death. All in all, Orwell's "Animal Farm" is a proclamation against dictatorship and a proclamation for liberty. I think that's very topical considering that the book was published in 1945.
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