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Summary: Not too good
Review: the book 'animal farm' was not very good. we read it in english, and the book is so boring i almost fell asleep reading it. george orwell must be old. i do not recommend this book to anyone.. try watching tv instead. but dont watch the movie, its worse than the book.
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Summary: Anaimal Farm
Review: There is a farm owner who treats his farm animals really bad. So the animals decide to have a rebellion. They chase the farmer, his wife, and his worker man off the farm. Then two pigs (snowball and nepolean) take charge of the farm to keep it civilized and running right. they do everything the farmers did but not in such a harsh way. Later on the animals have a plan to build a windmill to have electricity on the farm.Then the farmer and his man attack te farm and kill many of the animals but the animals manage to defeat them.So nepolean wants absolute control over everything so he had trained some puppies to be his guards. He sends the dogs after snowball and they chase him off the farm. Nepolean then breaks all the rules and make sure everything goes good for him and the other pigs. He works the other animals really hard so that they can make the windmill that snowball came up with but nepolean took the credit.Later that year the animals r attacked again but this time the humans bring guns and kill alot of the animals but the animal ran them off still. Later on the farm falls apart and the aniamals slowly die and offspring come. The farm stays poor looking and trashy.
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Summary: A classic fable
Review: The great thing about Animal Farm is that it can be read at a number of different levels. I suspect that the majority of readers these days are not particularly interested in matching up the characters of the various pigs with Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin etc., or the events of the tale with their corresponding historical moments, though it can certainly be done. It can, and has, also been read and enjoyed by children as an amusing and cautionary tale without any political significance.But I suspect that most readers these days will appreciate the book as a thought provoking rumination on the corrupting effects of power. Orwell, the man who gave us the phrase 'the Cold War' as well as 'Big Brother is Watching' wrote this fairly late in his career, just before his magnum opus 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', when he was at the hight of his creative powers Animal Farm remains an entertaining, if brief, read, and every literate person should read it at least once as a child and once again as an adult.
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Summary: The Best Version of Orwell's Classic
Review: What do you do with "Animal Farm"? It's a tad too short to stand on its own, but far too important to only appear as part of an anthology. In its 50th Anniversary Edition, Harcourt Brace comes up with the perfect solution: make it into a children's book. The trade size and large type gives this edition the eerily appropriate look of bedtime story, and the accompanying watercolors by Ralph Steadman (illustrator emeritus of all things swinish) are a perfect touch. The extra material-two prefaces, one a translation back into English from the circa 1947 Ukranian edition-is somewhat superfluous, but doesn't detract from the overall effect. This is the best version of Orwell's classic.
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Summary: Based on Russians
Review: This book is a metaphor for Russia. Because Soviets are swine. Give it up for Bang Daddy.
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Summary: A Timeless Reminder of Our Short Memory
Review: George Orwell is doubtless one of the great thinkers of the 20th century. With Animal Farm, he cements himself as a pithy and moralistic speaker for a tumultous sociopolitical era. Animal Farm, amazingly written so soon after WWII, when much of the West was still blind to the horrors of Russian communism, not to mention the truths behind the failing experiment. Orwell is a historian who analyzes history as it occurs - a risky endeavor, but his exceptional capacity for discerning truth from chaos and for clairvoyance are unrivaled. Animal Farm tells the story of farm animals who rebel against their master and set out to achieve an animal utopia based on equality, hard work, and good will. As their project is executed, though, it reveals features reflexive of human evolution - greed, ambition, the need to chart differences and draw borders, and the eternal desire to have dominion over all others. Animal Farm is not only a good general outline of human political flaws, but also a keen study in some of Red Communism's specifics. Orwell shows knowledge of his subject, not settling for vague inferences and over-obvious dichotomies. Rather, his satiro-ideological allegory portrays the entire social spectrum of masters and slaves, rulers and masses, idealogues and tyrants. A great counter to the Communist Manifesto, it answers with enough verbal economy and irony.
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Summary: In praise of freedom
Review: This book is the best educational tool of the value of freedom and what happens when we choose to compromise it in favor of other "higher" goals of society. It is an old world political novel, which serves to remind us of what the world used to be like, and what it can look like if we are not careful.
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Summary: Great
Review: It is a short book but full of symbolism. George Orwell has written many other great books like 1984 and his writings are always interesting.
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Summary: Failed Utopia
Review: George Orwell writes about a society that parallels the Soviet Union in his satirical novel, Animal Farm, where the animals revolt against their cruel master and form a new society based on the same principles as communism.
After the animals' revolt and the formation of Animal Farm, the animals' name for their society, things start to look up. But as with the real Soviet Union, the leadership begins to become corrupt, conditions deteriorate, and freedoms slowly slip away. By the time anyone outside the leadership realizes what is happening, it may be too late.
This interesting and easy to read book provides fascinating political commentary on Orwell's time-period and the failures of communism (specifically the USSR). The reader's ability to see where things are going and the ability to spot the parallels of the characters from the novel in history only enhances the book and George Orwell gets his point across without mentioning the Soviet Union, its leaders, or communism even once. His warnings on the dangers of any form of totalitarianism show through in his writing, and this book almost reads like 1984 (another Orwell classic) in parts.
Those who read this looking for a happy fairy tale where a bunch of talking animals live in an utopia of their making will probably not be satisfied, nor will the story be rewarding if the reader ignores the historical context of the novel. But if you're looking for an interesting novel and don't mind the constant reminder that this was meant as a political commentary, you will probably enjoy this book.
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Summary: Animal Farm Helps [a religious group] wake up...
Review: Animal Farm is a GREAT TOOL for getting [a religious group] to wake up from L Ron Hubbard's madness.... It does not mention [a religious group], however, the techniques used will resonate with any current staff or public [religious group]. This book would make a GREAT gift to that person you love whom you WISH was not in [a religious group]..... You might also suggest that they watch the movie "The Truman Show" and "The Matrix", but make sure that they read Orwell's Animal Farm.... The life you save might be a loved one. Arnie Lerma...
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