Animal Farm

‘Animal Farm’ is truly an interesting story; we all know what the story represents but George Orwell portrayed communists Russia in World War II really well. The book was short and I was able to read it in one day, almost in one sitting. I think we could spend a long time discussing which animal represents which Russian and working out which battle was The Battle of the Cowshed or The Battle of the Windmill. I did especially enjoy the flag (The Horn and Hoof Flag reminiscent of the hammer and sickle), Squealer (propaganda pig) and Moses the Raven (the Russian Orthodox Church). It is definitely one of those books you need to read at least once in your lifetime. I think I enjoyed it more than ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’.

I read this one night and liked it, so I read it to my six year old son before bedtime... he liked the story more than my rants about politics...HA

This is an AWESOME book!!!!

Ugh I'm a noob at this. My mom forced me to look online and read this book instead of taking her lazy ass to the library around the corner and checking it out for me. I'm confused. Help?

I hate this damn book!!!

One of the best books ever written. This book will be enjoyable even to those with no understanding of the October Revolution.

For a while I hesitated to read this book. Not because of the huge number of pages, but because I thought it would be difficult to write about what I think of it.I've therefor decided to write my toughts about what I read, the story itself and leave aside the comparison to people / the book's contemporary politics. I do not have enough knowlegde of that to let my commentary make any sense. (I must admit though, that while reading, visions came up from the founding of the USSR.)As a story I loved this little book. Obiously this is done on purpose, but the mini society the animals form after the Rebellion resembles more and more the 'normal' human society, where there are people taking the lead, people following blindly without criticizing a thing. There are smart people and not so smart people.What I loved most, is that that the change from 'idealistic' society to a dictatorship is so fluently. It almost naturally follows from the actions taken.Despite it was written in the last years of WW II, this satire / fable is still very actual. I'm glad that I finally read it :-)

 ohh, those pigs are crafty! Set on a farm in rural England, where the animals are incited to revolt against their human masters and start to run the farm themselves. The inital dream of a rural idyll is soon eroded by the actions of the pigs, and they way the confound the other animals. They invent 7 commandments that are seen to change over time as the pigs decide to rewrite the rules in their own favour. The lies that they tell to pull the wool over the eyes of the other animals get more and more outlandish as the story progresses, to the extent of writing history to prove their point. I thought this would be difficutl to read, but it's actually quite short, about 100 pages, and isn't taxing. However, I imagine the essay that you could be set on this are probably a great deal more difficult than the source text!