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Summary: Thought Provoking...
Review: You may find it hard to believe that an English major never read Animal Farm. Yet, here I am. The book, while targeting "bad guys" long since gone, remains salient in a time when people are concerned about losing certain freedoms. It's a quick read (can be read in one sitting) and very thought provoking.
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Summary: Brilliant, Prophetic, Insightful, and Thought Provoking
Review: I find it curious that George Orwell was a socialist when the "fairy tale" he describes is not an infrequent outcome of socialism -- of good intentions by sincere people going terribly awry and people (animals) worse off from whence they started. Since it is a fairy tale, I assume people can derive from it whatever message they wish. I believe Animal Farm to be an accurate, albeit accelerated, would-be history of the path of socialism and other idealistic utopian schemes. The book is short and easy to read. It's also enjoyable and somewhat humorous. But one turns the final page with an unsettling sadness that the animals could have easily represented the attributes of human beings.
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Summary: Hmmmmmmm
Review: This book probably deserved 2 and a half stars but i can't guve it that so. . . This book i sonly good if you need an excuse hate communism.
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Summary: Not quite what I expected
Review: This book was different from what I thought it would be. I have a definition in my head for a "Fairy story" and I wouldn't call this book one. It leaves you thinking at the end like all good books do and I think you have to know government and politics a little bit(and I don't!)to really understand the depth of this book. Some parts where funny and the characters were good. Read it, but don't expect a happy ending.
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Summary: A unique and artistic approach to one of the world's issues.
Review: A completely interesting story of a farm's animals revolution against the farm's owner, where the animals took "office" after him and managing the farm according to their idologies. A society -when reading - you forget that they are animals. So interesting that you cannot leave it until you finish it. I think as many readers share me the openion that the author means by the animal farm, the subject of "Animal farm" he means the socialist and communist society including the leadership. If I can locate my copy I would have read it again and again.
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Summary: A fantastic and fascinating book
Review: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal then others". George Orwell's novel is surely one of the best books by the author. The author makes you enter into the story, with its marvellous descriptions.
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Summary: Mano a mano between Orwell and Steadman
Review: This is the best edition you're ever gonna get of the great Orwell classic. Not only the illustrations are superb, it includes an essay, by Orwell, about the freedom of the press which is truly a masterpiece amid today's abundance of intolerant politically-correct nonsense.And, take my word as a professional cartoonist for 25 years, RALPH STEADMAN IS GOD!!!
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Summary: A Great Book but a Little Hard To Follow
Review: This is a wonderful book that can be looked at in two ways: allegorical or as a barn-yard story. I, because I was only 13 when I read it, saw it as just a story, yet it still entertained me.
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Summary: A wonderful timeless story every human being should read....
Review: I read Animal Farm for my 8th grade literature class. I read another review and noticed how someone recommended this book "only for adults". I must disagree! Animal Farm is an incredible work, both as a fairy story and an allegory for politics. I wrote an essay on Animal Farm's political references and how a few characters symbolize famous dictators of the twentieth century (for example, the one character Napoleon, a pig, symbolizes Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini all at once, I won't go into it here). Anyway, I'll just had that I got an A on the essay. READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!
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Summary: Superb political allegory
Review: I first read this book without really considering its message but I loved it anyway and thought it was a great story. However the lasting impression is its excellent satire of comtemporary society in Russia under Stalin, and this has obviously made it a favourite for American high school indoctrination. It is not really a satire on other Communist societies and Marxist philosophy in general, but more a chilling criticism of the betrayal of idealism in Russia by 1945 with implicit references to Stalinism throughout the book. But whether you appreciate the political side of it or are looking for a great story it is either way an excellent read.
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