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Summary: A great book about living in a communist nation.
Review: This is one of the best books I've ever read. Although it's only 140 or so pages, it tells a great story. I really can see what it's like living in a communist country or farm.
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Summary: A different show of goverment system.
Review: Animal Farm shows the socialism from a different point of view. Despite your position about capitalism and socialism, you should read this book.
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Summary: Not as easy as it looks, folks.
Review: This book has long been shortchanged for three reasons: ( a ) It's short, ( b ) It features talking animals and ( c ) It is a very obvious allegory. To all the above charges, Animal Farm is guilty, but don't send it to the glue factory just yet -- it's also the most perfectly written book in the English language. Just think how much better off our literature would be if more writers had followed Orwell's standard-bearing example. Unlike Joyce and Pynchon and most other 20th century charlatans you care to name, Orwell doesn't write for himself -- to show off his technical virtuosity. He writes for the pleasure and edification of the AUDIENCE. This shouldn't be such a foreign concept nowadays, but it is. Orwell's craft, which is impeccable, is also totally invisible, and that's the way it should be. There are two lessons any young writer can learn from Animal Farm: ( a ) If you have a story that can be told in 80 pages, tell it in 80 pages ( b ) If you have a story that can be told in 700 pages, tell it in 80 pages. Compression, compression, compression! I can't tell you how satisfying it was, after reading supposedly sophisticated tripe like Infinite Jest -- a book whose only distinction is length -- to come back to Orwell, which I thought I had long outgrew, and bask in a novel in which every word is carefully chosen to drive the plot to its inevitable end. Granted, the political aspects of Animal Farm are a little faded, but the simple misanthropy of the story is still chilling, funny, and most importantly, well-earned. And better yet, you can perfectly visualize everything Orwell describes. It's a tragedy that Orwell spent so much of his short life furiously scribbling political broadsides, leaving his storytelling gifts mostly untapped. Those broadsides have come to dust, but Animal Farm lives.
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Summary: Animal Farm is a wonderful book.
Review: Animal Farm is beautifully written and it is also entertaining. Some parts of the book are humorous, and other parts are depressing, especially when the horse, Boxer, is taken away by the horse butcher. The characters are delightful, and they have great human characteristics and qualities. It is a masterpiece of writing, and I have added it to my list of favorite books.
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Summary: Educational and easy to read!
Review: A quick look into the world of Communism. Orwell is a genius
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Summary: This book is for anyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I love this book!!!!!(age nine) It is a book that tells people that animals are superior too. We are the ones that destroy the Earth. We cannot run as fast as most animals. We need help from those animals out there!! That's why God put them here!!! This book also was a retelling of communism and dictatorship. It's a very imaginative way of telling the story!! Poor Old Major dies in the begginning of the story. He was pretty old, though! After that, the animals are told of the wonderful Sugarcandy Mountain, which kind of explains the peace. A while later, the animals decide to build a windmill. Snowball has revenge, and knocks it down. This explains how the war starts (He did this because of the dogs). Snowball then mixes weeds with the corn seed, and then the crops go bad. The battle of cowshed is a horrible part. Lots of creatures die. A long time after that, the pigs and sheep change the motto of "Two legs good, four legs better!" into 'Four legs good, two legs better!'And then the pigs practically turn into men. I have learned a lot from this short book, it taught me a lesson. 'Two legs good, four legs a lot better!' Anyone interested in that kind of stuff should have this book!! It's one of the best!!!! I am very strong and have the ability to run on four legs. I know it's hard to believe that I am 9, but it's 100% true.(I swear!) This book was so easy to read and understand!!! I'm sure when I get older I will have no problem wrting a report on this book!!!!!!!!!!! I am also a big farm animal-lover. I think there should be a sixth star for this book!
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Summary: This book is laced with nicotine!!
Review: It seems like this is a consensed 600-page novel. Animal Farm is a book you read and when it's done you think "Wow, that was fast," and read it again. It teaches important lessons about communism and how the only people who support it are the weak and ignorant or those who gain omnipotence. This is the only great book I have ever been forced to read. You say you're going to put it away as soon as the next chapter ends, but end up staying up until 2 AM reading. Hey, it's only $5.
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Summary: This book is the truth.
Review: I love this book for many reasons. Here are 2. I learned a lesson. And I love the descriptive way that George wrote this book. Humans are the most dangerous animals on this planet. Don't you realise that we need animals to survive?! They are the superior ones, not us. All we are doing is just destroying this planet. The animals are helping us. They are stronger. Long live animals!! We are bad!!!!!!People should realise that the Indians lived without machinery. Why can't we? We Could use computers still, but other things we are capable of selling.(This book is a retelling version of dictatorship and communism.)
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Summary: i hate those pigs!
Review: bad pigs,nasty pigs, ugly pigs, i hate those pigs!! long live boxer!
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Summary: Animal Farm was very eventful!! A very good book.
Review: Animal Farm is one of my ten best books. I liked how the animals acted when certain things were going on. I could have read the book many times without it getting at all boring.
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