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Summary: Animal Farm
Review: This book really widened my eyes to the developement of domesticated animals. I began to visualize all of this happening. I thought about the animals revolting against the the humans and them just giving up. My favorite character was Squealer. He was a loud mouthed liar who used wonderful words and got away with it. Overall, I didn't really understand it and I got confused during it a lot.
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Summary: Animal Farm: A ruthless dictatorship.
Review: An overall good book with a few points to be made. The pig, Napoleon, has trademarks of Adolf Hitler, the Japanese dictator, Tojo, and several others. His cunning is greater than anyone else on the farm, that's why Boxer was sent to the horse glue maker. But like all great leaders, what would he be without his own secret police and someone to tell false lies to the public to ensure his stability and greatness. He gets the pig, Squealer, to tell the lies and he has his dogs he raised and feed his evil lies.
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Summary: Read the Orwell Preface at the end!!!
Review: Dear Reader:I have recently re-read "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, because it will be one of my son's assigned readings in the months and years to come. ...book makes more sense now at 44, than at 14. I read the 50th anniversary edition, from our local library. At the end of the (physical) book, are two "prefaces" -- one is the original, the other is the Ukranian. All I can say is that you should read or reread the original ORWELLIAN version of the PREFACE (and the book). The whole thing should only take a few hours, it's only a hundred pages or so. If you take the first 3 or 4 pages of the Orwell Preface, and every where it says USSR or Russian (etc.) and replace that with either REPUBLICAN or BUSH GOVERNMENT, it makes sense. It's as if he wrote it today. An intelligent person like yourself can easily read this short preface, and do the word substitution in your mind. Please do so. Best Regards
-Dave
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Summary: Classic
Review: Who couldn't love this classic Orwellian tale? Four legs good; two legs bad. I'd rather have no tail and no flies ...
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Summary: Read again in college and afterwards kiddies
Review: A knowledge of history is required before the full magnitude of this book can be understood. A profound book full of insight. A must read for all human rights lovers.
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Summary: One of the Greatest Books of the Twentieth century
Review: This is one of the greatest books of the twentieth century and will continue to be a great book into this one. It is so perfectly worked out as a political parable and so perfectly written. When I first read it I was knocked out that something which read so simply and so straightforwardly could have the impact it had on me. If you haven't done so, read it today!
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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: George Orwell's Animal Farm is a classic, a masterpiece of fiction. Tyrants ban this book, and you can immediately see why. Tyranny survives on falsehood and deception. But literature such as this can pierce the truth better than sober historical scholarship. This exposes history's tyrants to be just what they are: coldblooded cynical liars. This is a must read.
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Summary: A Quick summary ---- ! ! ! !
Review: A symbolic book about a revoloution which ends to misery with an impressive writing and from a British writer.
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Summary: Historical Analogy of Communism
Review: Stubborn obedience to a failed system and to individuals within the system who will quickly turn on their subordinates is clearly portrayed in this classic book which uses an animal farm to describe the mindset of Communist thinking. This book is not difficult to read and even though Soviet Communism is not the threat it was at the time this book came out, as a historical work this book remains a worthwhile read. In fact, this book helps show how such a dysfunctional system was destined to fail! It is to Orwell's credit that he is able to evoke such empathy from his readers for farm animals. He succeeds in doing so. Sometimes an anology can highlight truths that a straightforward journalistic approach cannot. This is an interesting little book that will not require much time commitment to complete.
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Summary: Interesting look at Communist Russia
Review: I read Animal Farm for the first time as a set school text in Year 9, and found it to be much deeper and meaningful than expected.
As goes the saying, do not judge Animal Farm by its cover! The story of a rebelious group of barnyard animal provides a mere smokescreen for George Orwell to attack Pre-WW2 Russia and their communist society.
For someone not familiar with Stalin's reign and dictatorial manner, such as myself, Animal Farm provides a concise and factual portrayal of the situation, without delving into areas best left for discussion in a Philosophy PhD convention. As well as informing readers of how all-powerful Stalin was, Animal Farm offers an intersting story and gives a clear of all characters invoolved, from meer workers to the highest figures on Manor Farm.
Recommended to anyone who has an interest in history, especially teens, as Animal Farm will give you an introduction to some of the darker days in history, without requiring years of research and reading beforehand.
Very interesting read, and an eye-opener to younger readers, as we realise how lucky we are to not have experienced such conditions.
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