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Greenatic · 2012-02-24 19:54:57

It's a classic satiric novel by George Orwell. Has anyone else ever read it? What did you think? I really enjoyed it.

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JJROCKER · 2012-02-24 19:56:02

I think I've heard about it before.

veggieman001 · 2012-02-24 19:56:44

my favourite book of all time no joke

Greenatic · 2012-02-24 19:57:39

veggieman001 wrote:
my favourite book of all time no joke

It's a great book. What did you like about it?

analytic · 2012-02-24 23:47:00

It's quite easily read and reminiscent of many current problems of the world today.

veggieman001 · 2012-02-24 23:53:23

Greenatic wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
my favourite book of all time no joke
It's a great book. What did you like about it?

i dunno
it has great characters, good themes, and i like how it's written

fetchydog567 · 2012-02-25 02:44:28

I always read this when i get bored!
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wiimaster · 2012-02-25 08:20:29

I love this book, it is one of my favorites. I really enjoy satire.

funelephant · 2012-02-25 09:00:12

I think my sister read that in like 8th grade... Wasn't there a pig that died or something?

veggieman001 · 2012-02-25 10:40:32

funelephant wrote:
I think my sister read that in like 8th grade... Wasn't there a pig that died or something?

yes

werdna123 · 2012-02-25 10:41:49

I liked it, it taught me a lot. I'm reading another of Orwell's books now.

veggieman001 · 2012-02-25 10:43:27

which one?

Wickimen · 2012-02-25 10:45:31

All books are equal, but some are more equal than others
Animal Farm was equaler tongue
Awesome but creepy.

veggieman001 · 2012-02-25 10:46:58

it really makes you think about the inner workings of socialism

Freckles · 2012-02-25 12:28:42

I have read that book an unhealthy number of times. George Orwell was one of the bravest men of his generation, writing books like 1984 and Animal Farm during that time, when everyone was all paranoid over things like Nazism and Communism.
I probably sound like Sarah Palin, since I'm 90% certain I got something wrong.

werdna123 · 2012-02-25 12:30:02

veggieman001 wrote:
which one?

Down and Out in Paris and London

Greenatic · 2012-02-25 16:48:04

Freckles wrote:
I have read that book an unhealthy number of times. George Orwell was one of the bravest men of his generation, writing books like 1984 and Animal Farm during that time, when everyone was all paranoid over things like Nazism and Communism.
I probably sound like Sarah Palin, since I'm 90% certain I got something wrong.

I think you got that all right. smile

ROSMan · 2013-04-20 18:45:14

this could be my favorite book ever. it's so disturbing yet influential.

the best part to me is at the end when the animals already cannot tell the difference between the pigs and the humans.

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ReadyRobin · 2013-04-20 18:53:48

"And the animals could see both humans and pigs, although they could not tell which was which."

Or something like that

ROSMan · 2013-04-20 21:47:38

ReadyRobin wrote:
"And the animals could see both humans and pigs, although they could not tell which was which."

Or something like that

right.

Sellout · 2013-04-20 21:58:10

It was an okay book. A fine, classic piece of satire but it's pretty, uh, entry-level. If it was as masterfully deep as everyone tries to make it out to be it probably wouldn't be required reading for the ninth grade

generosity · 2013-04-20 23:05:52

Animal Farm is a book.

soupoftomato · 2013-04-20 23:10:02

Freckles wrote:
I have read that book an unhealthy number of times. George Orwell was one of the bravest men of his generation, writing books like 1984 and Animal Farm during that time, when everyone was all paranoid over things like Nazism and Communism.
I probably sound like Sarah Palin, since I'm 90% certain I got something wrong.

Disliking Stalin and such back when Orwell was writing was pretty safe. tongue

Though he WAS socialist otherwise, though I'm not sure in what ways.

generosity · 2013-04-20 23:15:48

I don't like it when people say "oh that book explains the many flaws of socialism/communism"
because communism is perfect in theory, it's just that people are imperfect and it has always morphed into a totalitarian state, so people think there's something wrong with the system

veggieman001 · 2013-04-21 01:32:32

generosity wrote:
I don't like it when people say "oh that book explains the many flaws of socialism/communism"
because communism is perfect in theory, it's just that people are imperfect and it has always morphed into a totalitarian state, so people think there's something wrong with the system

that is the flaw of communism, though: it is a government system intended for humans, but it can't work for them

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