I finally got around to reading Orwell’s famous satirical allegory, and it didn’t disappoint. This is a classic story of revolution and the corruption of power, with the animals who take over Animal Farm each representing groups or types of people in the social structure, such as the elite (the pigs), the bourgeoisie (Millie, the horse), the working class (Boxer, the horse) and the silent cynics (the donkey, my favorite character). Even though I knew it was allegorical, I had to laugh at the mental image of pigs milking cows. The famous last line sums it up:

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

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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.