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Summary: Must be read !
Review: This book is easy to read but must be really understood to get the main point.
Don't think it's written for children only because of the title. You won't get into it if you don't have any idea in which time it was written and what political movements dominated this period of time.
All in all I enjoyed reading this book very much, expecially because it introduced me a bit to Communisme and and other political affairs, like how people react to leadership for example.
George Orwell is a brilliant writer who understands how to fascinate you from page to page again and again.
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Summary: One of the best books I ever read
Review: I just finished reading this for fun, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found myself, as I read it, to really connect to the characters. Especially Clover, although I would have done something about all the wrong doings the pigs were doing. I found myself hating the pigs and wanted to rip their throats out. If I were one of the animals, I would have revolted against Napoleon. The clincher for me was when the pigs started walking on their hind legs. Although I was surprised that the animal's memory was that bad. I always thought that dogs were just as smart or smarter then the pigs. At least my dog is anyway. They seemed like a bunch of idiots that wouldn't know how to eat if they weren't told how too. But one thing still confused me about the whole issue with Snowball. I mean was he really a traitor, or did Napoleon just make that all up? All in all, I really enjoyed this book, and recomend it to everybody.
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Summary: AN ESSENTIAL READ!!!
Review: I found Animal Farm one of the most incredible books i've ever read! It really made me think; Orwell has a way of captivating and scaring the reader, like in 1984. The grim reality of a good idea, communism, however the failure of it in practise is displayed so truthly in this book. Using major as Marx, Snowball as Trotsky and Napoleon as Stalin a depressing and devastating novel is written about communist Russia. Although i am only 16 i felt this book gave me a greater understanding of the ideas and failures of communism, after learning about the cold war in school.
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Summary: It's About Communism. In Russia. Duh.
Review: In case you haven't guessed (and shame on you if you haven't), this book is a transparent allegory of the Communist Revolution in Russia. It's NOT a literary masterwork, it's NOT brilliant prose, and most of all, it is NOT a random story about farm animals.
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Summary: Wow
Review: It's a real shame that in this modern day of ours, we don't have authors like George Orwell around. I'm not going to try and make a critical analysis for Animal Farm because it speaks for itself. This book is original, funny, and shows despotism at its best. Fantastic.
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Summary: Mixed feelings
Review: After reading Animal Farm I had mixed feelings about the novel I was not sure if I liked it or not. I do believe it is a creative novel the plot and storyline, but I do not find it very appealing. I do not believe many teengers as myself would enjoy reading this novel.
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Summary: Communism Vs. Animalism
Review: Animal Farm is a book I'm not used to reading. Especially a book where animals talk and take over human beings. At first it took me a while to imagine this but then I understood it and realized a lot of Russian history is behind this. George Orwell basically pokes fun of the totalitarian government and Marxism. He relates a dictator boar named Napoleon to Stalin in Russian history. The story of Animal Farm goes like this- A farm owner named Mr. Jones always forgets to feed the animals, doesn't take care of the farm and always gets drunk and leaves town, the animals fight back which is the start of a Rebellion. It ends up that Napoleon, a dictator who's a boar, turns out to be exactly like Mr. Jones. Turns out that all animals aren't equal.
This is definitely a different book from most others and has a strong theme to it: Revolutions go in vicious circles. I liked it a lot but non-fiction books are more my type of books!
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Summary: Four legs good, two legs bad, this book good!
Review: Taking a Russian history class and learning in detail about Joseph Stalin's rule would help one understand Animal Farm much better, as well as the characters. George Orwell's hatred of totalitarianism, especially that of the Stalinist USSR, formed the basis for this short satirical fiction.A band of oppressed farm animals oust Jones, their cruel human owner and take over the farm. Led by two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, the animals proceed to run the farm by themselves so they are no longer exploited. Napoleon is clearly Stalin, while Snowball is based on Leon Trotsky, and the Old Major is Lenin. Squealer may be Molotov or Kaganovich, but I'm not sure. The first attack on the Farm by Jones and his men is based on the Russian Civil War (1918-1921), where disorganized factions of anti-communists attacked the Soviet Union from all sides, and lost. However, things don't always go in parallel, as the Old Major dies before the Revolution. Lenin of course precipitated the Revolution in 1917. And note the date of the liberation of Manor Farm: 12 October. That is close to 24 October, the date of the Bolshevik Revolution. Other items: Boxer the horse is the epitome of the hard worker whose two sayings are "Napoleon is always right" and "I will work harder." In fact he may be Stakhanov, the worker whose team so efficiently met their quota in one of Stalin's 5-Year Plans, that the word Stakhanovite became synonymous with an A-One Soviet worker. And the inability of most animals to read only the first two letters of the alphabet hint at their being lowly, illiterate subjects blindly obedient to the State. The Seven Commandments--ironic for a Biblical reference in an atheist system-- plays an important key to the book, as they keep changing during Napoleon's reign. They are: "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy, 2) Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend, 3) No animal shall wear clothes, 4) No animal shall sleep in a bed, 5) No animal shall drink alcohol, 6) No animal shall kill any other animal, and 7) All animals are equal." However, as Napoleon consolidates his rule, the Commandments become slightly altered. For example, after the animal executions, analogous to Stalin's purges, the sixth Commandment has the words "without cause" appended. And talk about irony in using the name of Napoleon for the Stalin character when in fact Napoleon invaded Russia, the result of which increased distrust of the West by Russians. Orwell's portrait of the totalitarian state would be finalized in his masterpiece 1984. Animal Farm was a preview for that grand work, but the final thing that comes through in this book is that the Stalinist regime was just as oppressive as the czarist regime, with the ordinary animals on the receiving end-i.e. "but some animals are more equal than others."
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Summary: good
Review: This is a book about a group of animals took over the control of their owner's farm. It wasn't that interesting to me when I first read it, but after I learned about the Russian Revolution in my history class, I start to understand more about the theme that was behind the story. The animals and the animal leaders (pigs) in this story were representing the Russian people and the Communism Party that took control of Russia during the Revolution.
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Summary: very good, recommend highly
Review: this book was very good. the characters were developed very well, and the parallels to communist russia were excellent. this book was very fun to read, and the author had much detail and a very good style. it was a very good idea...animals throwing over a farm and running it themselves. i enjoyed this book very much and would highly recommend to anyone.
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