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Summary: Great!! Exciting!!
Review: This was one of the greatest books I have read in my 12 years!! Although I had to do it for a book report, I still enjoyed it very much. And by the way I got an A on that report. I suggest that any one who likes exciting, young adult style fantasy books, should definetly read this. Go ahead buy it from Amazon.com right now.
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Summary: A MUST-HAVE for your personal library!
Review: George Orwell has created a true masterpiece - a basic storyline that is easy enough for a child to understand, but which has a deep, complex hidden meaning in it. Almost every event and character in this book can be traced to its origins as part of the history of the Russian revolution. This edition includes Ralph Steadman's witty line drawings in both black-and-white and also in full color one- and two-page spreads. At the end, as appendices, are two prefaces to Animal Farm, one previously unpublished and the other being the preface to the Ukrainian edition. This is one of those books that every single person HAS to read sometime during his or her life. It is especially good for those in search of a story with more to it than just the plot, a story which has an allegorical level full of satire, criticisms, and moral lessons. Every conflict in the story is ingeniously intertwined with the others, and an abundance of foreshadowing adds to the book. Each of the characters is so well described that the reader gets to know them almost personally during the course of the book. You will LOVE Animal Farm!
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Summary: A fairy story that makes you want to read more.
Review: Animal Farm is an enchanting story about greed, life, and politics. It seems that when one person leaves, someone else has to take over. It is a story about intelligence, stupidity, and heroism.
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Summary: Animal Farm
Review: George Orwell, though obviously a very open-minded man and a believer in the communist beliefs, harshly attacks Marxist ideals. Marx wrote his manifestos on revolution in an ivory tower, which, in practice, came crashing down both is our world(USSR) and in Animal Farm(perhaps represented by the windmill?). As a passive reader of this novel, it is easy to notice the transition from commune equality to totalitarianism. However, when personally involved, such as the animals(excluding the pigs) on the farm, it is not so easy to notice the coup d'etat of the perfect democratic system. I, like many who have posted for this review, am young(freshman in highschool), and for such a broad range of people to understand this novel is representative of how thinly Orwell actually did spread the magical realism over his masterful work. "I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengenance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, perishing by this retributive instrument, before it shall cease out of its present use."-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
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Summary: Wonderful allegory! I loved it's depth
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I liked how the animals represented people in the Russian Revolution. It was interesting to see how the pigs were the leaders, when in real life, they're not very smart.
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Summary: A good imaginative view on the Russian Revolution!
Review: In reading Animal Farm and reviewing the history of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for my class, the book gave me a powerful understanding on the beliefs and lies that were raised during the book. Orwell gave each charater an unforgetable role whether it was Boxer, Nepolean or Snowball. Animal Fram gave me a better understanding on what went on and the ability to match names with events.
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Summary: Very good, understandable, however strange and exxagerated!
Review: Before saying anything bad about this book, I must mention that it was very well written, and is extremely interesting, and even amusing at some parts. The comparison of Napoleon and Snowball to Stalin and Trotsky is very good. But I think its too abusive of Communism. I know Communism is not very good if ot used properly, as it destroys much of people's freedom. But it is not as bad as some people make it sound. However, if it works well, as Karl Marx dreamed, then it can be good for the people who it governs. But when its true meaning becomes abused, it is then that it can be destructive and people lose freedom and other things. This does happen often in such a government, and despite his aptitude for writing, Orwell exxagerates in making the generalization that Communism always leads to chaos and loss of freedom and voice, which is not true. The reason I think that it is so good despite this is that in Orwell's time Communism was just emerging. What Orwell experienced of Communism was horrible, therefore he is under no circumstances responsible for makig this exxageration. It is just today, in 1998, that we can look back at history and really see that despite most Communist governments becoming destructive of freedom, if COmmunism is used as Karl Marx hoped, then it can be a good government. Person, Age 12
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Summary: A complex subject in a manner children can easily understand
Review: From the point in which "Old Major" made his stirring speach to the animals in the barn, I was hooked. (Lenin would have been pleased) A compelling tale of a group of animals that rise against their masters to acheive equality. As the story progresses, drawing the parallels between this childrens story and the real world became abundently clear. As "Animal Farm" transends between an unjust enviornment lead by Farmer Jones to the unjust enviornment lead by Napolean the "pig", it is easy to see how happened to them . . . and to the Russians. A story every child should read by the time they leave high school.
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Summary: A brilliant satiracal masterpiece
Review: After reading the supurbly written, thought-provoking vision, 1984, I went on to read Orwell's novel, Animal Farm. It was quite different from other serious social commentary books, in that it was so simply written. It was to the point, and told a story with a powerful message that we should all listen to. Orwell proves once again that he's one of the most brilliant, talented writers to come along in a long time.
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Summary: Fasinating Book
Review: I just finished reading the novel Animal Farm in my Seventh Grade Lititure class. I found it to be quite intersting and realistic. It shows in a different point of the whole Russian Reveloution. IT is a wonderful book
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