I know it is a known Classic but i liked Animal Farm so much i had to share. Before reading i thought that it would be similar to 1984 or Brave new world which it kind of is but its also very very different. Right from the Beginning i was hooked. I really love Orwells Books but this one is my favourite. I did not expect that. So for anyone that did not yet read it, i highly recomend it! :)
When I was a kid, my grandfather would record cartoon movies from TV to VHS and when we visited I’d watch those. One of them was an adaptation of Animal Farm. Of course I was way too young to understand any deeper implications of the work, but it did leave a deep impression on me. It is not suitable viewing for young kids.
As an adult I read the book and I really enjoyed it. I join OP in recommending it. It is also not a long book, so it’s not a serious time investment if you don’t happen to enjoy it.
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It’s been a long time, but I think that’s it.
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One of the very few that I had to read at school but enjoyed anyway.
I noticed that a new book taking up the story of Manor Farm as a post-Brexit satire has been published just this week: Beasts of England. Obviously I don’t expect it to be in the same league as Orwell, but I am actually intrigued to read this, and will get my hands on a copy soon.
My favourite is Down and Out in Paris and London. Just and nice read.
This and Homage are his two best imo. His fiction is a little too on the nose and heavy handed.
Great. I have already read 1984 so I will now give this a try.
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Mate I got to be honest, it was published in 1945.
Just as an FYI Orwell was kinda a horrible person. You can still enjoy his literature if you want but he couldn’t help to find Hitler unlikable, was a colonial cop in India and didn’t like how the Hindi people treated him because of it and and made lists of people who he accused of being leftists and Jewish.
couldn’t help to find Hitler unlikable
I think you meant, to quote Orwell himself:
I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler.
More on the list in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell's_list
There is a notable and obvious overlap in Orwell’s notebook between many of 1940s London’s prominent gay, Jewish and anti-colonial public figures and the accused “cryptos.” Orwell’s bigoted commentaries fill his suspects notebook. Jews are clearly labeled (“Polish Jew,” “English Jew,” “Jewess”) whilst others were mislabeled (“Charlie Chaplin — Jewish?”). The African-American bass singer and future civil rights activist Paul Robeson finds himself in Orwell’s list with the note “very anti-white,” whilst the half-Jewish poet Stephen Spender is damned as a “sentimental sympathiser… tendency towards homosexuality.”
It’ll always be funny that the dude who wrote something like 1984 was such an eager proto-McCarthyite snitch for the propaganda unit of the British Foreign Office.
I would have thought finding Hitler unlikeable would be a positive attribute ? Was that a typo ?
Orwell was a socialist so making lists of leftists seems surprising; are you sure this wasn’t an ideological tankies vs socialists or marxists vs trotskyists ?
Orwell paraded as a socialist which is why he knew who were true leftists and who weren’t. Dude was a narc of the highest order, and a traitor to the cause any way you look at it.
It was probably a typo.
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What specifically did you find shallow?
It’s literally the most basic and textbook form of allegory you can find in literature. There’s absolutely no depth to it at all.
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Did teenagers even exist when it was written?
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I think they mean the concept of “teenagers” as a specific phase wasn’t around (or well known) by that time
