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Summary: Animal Farm is off the HEEZY
Review: What's crackulating? I thought Animal Farm was the best book I've read this year! I especially liked the fact that it was a metaphor for the human condition, and that while it specifically spoofed the Communist Revolution in Russia, elements of Squealer and Napoleon can be seen in our own George W. Bush. I also appreciated the characters of Boxer, Benjamin and Clover, but I thought the sheep were annoying with their continuous bleating. Lastly, I appreciated the overall message at the end of the book: that power corrupts all. In conclusion, I thought this to be a fine read for all.Peace Out, The Waterboy
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Summary: Animals Take over
Review: Orwell's "Animal Farm" was on of the most entertaining books I have ever read. It is about a group of animals that lived on a farm, rebelled against the humans to lead their lives, but then when one of their own animals rules, the conclusion is that the animals becomes like a human, and the animals had gained nothing. The novel starts of by explaining Mr. Jones, the farm owner. The description of him was very mean, however, I personally do not think that Mr. Jones is all that bad. It seems that he used physical abuse in the means to organize and control, but did not use this strategy to his extreme. The Pigs are supposed to be the wisest. Orwell's satire of human nature is quite funny, making a pig a symbol of a human, and then when that pig (Napoleon) is corrupted with power, becomes a human. Besides politics, there were many historical allusions, biblical allusions, and a bit of stereotypes. The historical allusions consisted of communism, Hitler, and dictatorship. Napoleon, the leader of the animals, was power-hungry, and in turn became a dictator. In the beginning, animal farm was trying to make a utopian society using the method of communism, that all the animals should be treated equal. However, communism is the ideal society; it did not work for our world because of other factors, the method itself. Soon, Napoleon became a dictator and the method died. Napoleon can be compared with Hitler because Hitler tried to make a separation of line between the Germans and the Jews as Napoleon made that line with the animals to humans. In a wryly remark, the names of the animals played as a stereotype with the type of animal that they were. Boxer, the horse, was a hard working animal that always believed that if he listens and just "works harder" then true happiness can come for it. This reminds me of an actual boxer because boxers work hard one on one with their coach for better results, and do not question it. There was another comparison that I made while reading "Animal Farm", the connection with Golding's "Lord of the Flies" and "Animal Farm". Both stories are a bit equivalent. "Lord of the Flies" consists of boys stranded on an island so they make their societies, which in turn is divided by good and evil, but the evil is corrupted then restored at the end of the book. "Animal Farm" has somewhat of a same kind of tone. There are these animals that wish to have more rights and freedom so they rebel against Mr. Jones (and any other humans), Napoleon gets corrupted that he chases away Snowball (other pig that was in power with him) so he can have all the power. All the rules are broken, and at the end the farm is restored as it was in the beginning, but with more corruption. The rules were called the Seven commandments. This makes a religious allusion. The animals try to obey the rules, combining the theory of church and state. However, all the rules are broken by Napoleon, but must be obeyed by the pigs. Overall, I personally enjoyed this book. It is entreating, short, and had many of these little allusions that make it quite humorous.
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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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