Though not the most cheery of writers, I love Mr Orwell. I read 1984 in High School and it was one of my favorite books. Why I only got to reading Animal Farm now I have no clue, but I ran into the book in a 2nd hand shop and bought it to take with me on holiday.Read the whole thing in one go. The format of the fairy tale is brilliant, it’s smart and the message is obvious without being annoyingly obvious. The scene with boxer at the end made me so mad and that’s what a great book does: stir up strong emotions. Spend a long time afterwards thinking about communism and the apparent inevitability of the selfishness of the human spirit.

I just finished this – it was incredible.

I remembered watching the movie when I was younger. All I could remember from it though was a pigs head and the fact that I didn’t particularly like the movie towards the end and that it had something to do with a horse..

I didn’t remember why until (while reading the book) I was reading about Boxer. Although I remembered while reading about Boxer’s character that I was depressed about this character.

Other than that the book was great, the writing was a bit frusterating at first with the excessive use of names but still overall a good book :D.

i just re-read it after long time and was amazed with how differently i understood it this time, plus how profound and deep his ideas are while the telling manner is of a fairy tale. If u have lived in the era of communism and/or turbulent revolutions, definitely recommended.

just reread this a couple weeks ago. its really really good.

I pretty will contradict myself with this. However, the book was well written. Since it was based on history, the stupidity of the people pissed me off.