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Feb 18, 2012

Meridyforgot rated it:

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Nov 16, 2008

Shannon rated it:

This is a book I've been meaning to read for ages but never got around to - last week I not only read it but gave a lesson on the historical context for the grade 8 class, who will be reading this book and The Wave. As I found, out of the class of 24, about 20 of them had already read the book, and at least one kid knew it was an allegory of the Russian Revolution. Still, my lesson wasn't totally redundant :)

For anyone who isn't familiar with the story, Animal Farm is about the anima More...

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Nov 05, 2011

Lou rated it:

Animal Farm was such a great book and demands a re-read. That time is way overdue it has been a while since I read this and I was trying to find a way to review what Orwell was trying to convey in this story. I found couple of good reviews that put it so much better in perspective so why try myself when it's been written about by so many people. When I read it again in the not so distant future I will add my own thoughts So here's to what some readers wrote in a couple of other websites.
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Feb 10, 2008

Samin rated it:

I absolutely loved this book. It wasn't boring to me at all. I think Orwell did a great job of symbolizing all the injustice that happens in name of an outside force and how simple minded people who do not educate themselves get taken advantage from, be it West for Soviet Russia, America for Iran or Terrorists for the United states.

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Oct 18, 2011

Sita rated it:

Animal Farm is one of those classic books that I’m always hearing people talk about. People are always telling me it’s one of those books you just have to read before you die (even though I don't plan on dying anytime soon, I thought I would get the book out of the way). So, when I found the book in my dads collection I thought “why not? Let’s see what all the fuss is about.”

I can now see what all the fuss was about. This book was amazing and I am really glad that I finally took the More...

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Apr 02, 2008

Kristen rated it:

I felt like this was one of the best books I have ever read. I was left with a crazy feeling in my stomach of sadness and awe, because I believe Orwell has wrote a masterpiece. At first, before reading it, I was nervous I would not see the satire and I would not connect it to Communism. Yet it was blantantly obvious and while pulling the readers to sympathize with animals like Boxer and Benjamin, one could dare to predict what would happen next and come to hate the pigs and Napoleon. At firs More...

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Dec 07, 2010

Manny rated it:

A perfect book. People will still be reading this in a thousand years time, when communism is just a footnote.

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Dec 17, 2009

Tessa added it

Funnily enough, i read this book as a child and thought that it really WAS about animals. I remember thinking, Evil Pigs, I'm glad you're bacon in MY world, and Poor Hardworking Horsies, come live on my farm instead. You can have all the hay and makopa you want (sadly, no apples, tropical climate).

I reread it after education spoiled my natural inclinations for fast and absolute punishment of evildoers and eternal rewards for the good. I do find it pleasantly strange that these anima More...

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Dec 17, 2009

Steven rated it:

Wow. It took maybe a couple of hours to read this book - talk about a couple of hours well spent. I always thought I knew the story well, but reading its presented a wholly different experience. After a speech by wise Old Major , the great pig (read Marx/Lenin), in which it is noted that the life of an animal is misery and slavery and than man is the only creature that consumes without producing, the animals rise up and throw off the yolk of their oppressive master Jones (read Romanov family) More...

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Nov 10, 2011

Bonnie rated it:

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Another on my list of Banned/Challenged books.

Having missed this in my childhood education it's always been one that I've heard so many things about but have never been able to experience. I have to say that I'm quite glad I didn't read this until later in life because I don't believe I'd be able to appreciate it or understand it half as much as I would have in my early teens. I remember hearing about this book when I was younge More...

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Jan 05, 2009

Zinta rated it:

It wasn't my first stay on the farm. I'd read Orwell as a girl, one with ethnic roots reaching back to the Baltic States (Latvia) then occupied by the Soviet Union, and so having grown up on stories of human cruelty and betrayal, of human nature gone corrupt when faced with the seduction of power -- all of that rather than the common, soothing fairy tale. For that reason, I surely understood it on a deeper level than most of my peers. I was fifteen the first of many times I visited the Soviet Un More...

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Oct 30, 2011

Petra X rated it:

This is not really a review, but one of those moments where everything that was clear to you suddenly becomes utterly muddied and you really can't say what lies beneath the murky waters although a moment before you were sure you could.

I'm reading Christopher Hitchen's astonishingly percipient and brilliant Arguably: Essays. I read Animal Farm too young to identify the individual animals with actual characters on the stage of communism (the old boar Major is Marx, Farmer Jones is the More...

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Oct 04, 2010

NG added it

هي رواية رائعة بلا شك، استمتعت بها كثيرا.. أورويل عنده مقدرة عبقرية على نسج الأحداث، وسرده ممتاز..
ولكن استرعى انتباهي تصنيفها "من أعظم الأعمال"، فهي إسقاط مباشر جدا، سرد لتاريخ قيام الاتحاد السوفيتي، مع إبدال أسماء الشخصيات بأسماء حيوانات.. وأرجح أن سبب الشهرة العظيمة التي حازت عليها، هو مهاجتها للفكر الشيوعي وتصويرها للشيوعيين كخنازير ومعتنقي هذا الفكر كبهائم، وهو ما كان كفيلاً بإنجاح أي رواية تكتب في الغرب في الفترة من 1945 وحتى انهيار الدولة الشيوعية.

أورويل كاتب م More...

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Jul 16, 2008

sahar added it

با خواندن این کتاب به یاد همه انقلاب های جهان افتادم،خصوصا انقلاب اسلامی خودمان!

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Sep 18, 2011

Carlo rated it:

I don’t think I can add much on what have already been said about this book. It is indeed a very good book, beside one or two things that didn't feel right to me.

I believe that the analogy Orwell made between humans and animals has an obvious flaw: Almost all the miseries of the majority of human beings in reality - who are represented by the oppressed animals in the book - were caused by their fellow humans, whereas most miseries of the animals were due to their nature and the fact t More...

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Jan 13, 2011

Matt rated it:

Keep your Melville, with his dense, Scripture-based allusions. Stow your Dostoevsky, with his endless psychological babbling. Retain your Hawthorne, with all his thee-and-thou-studded dialogue. Instead, give me George Orwell, a writer of classics that are as easy to understand as any book by Ricahrd Scarry or Stan & Jan Berenstain.

Oh, to be sure, there is something to be said of the struggle and the rewards of some of classic literature's heftier entries. This is especially true if More...

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Mar 14, 2009

Choupette rated it:

At first I was delighted and amused to see the events of the Russian revolution to perfectly mirrored in this happy little animal fable. But somewhere around the time when the conflict between Stalin's 'Socialism in One Country' and Trotsky's 'Permanent Revolution' was reduced to the following description:

"According to Napoleon, what the animals must do was to procure fire-arms and train themselves in the use of them. According to Snowball, they must send out more and more pigeo More...

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Mar 09, 2008

HappyHippo rated it:

Untuk menikmati buku ini sepertinya anda harus memiliki ketertarikan mengenai politik atau minimal mengetahui sedikit tentang sejarah Uni Soviet dan komunisme.
Sebuah alegori, satir dan parodi yang ngeledek habis-habisan komunisme, Uni Soviet dan tentu saja Stalin.
Cerita dimulai dari seorang.. eh, seekor babi hutan tua (Major) disebuah peternakan yang mendorong para ternak2 untuk memberontak dan mendirikan peternakan yang dikelola oleh mereka sendiri. Para binatang akhirnya m More...

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Jul 16, 2008

Reza rated it:

مزرعه حيوانات از آن دسته كتابهائيست كه هميشه مي توان خواندش. ايده هايي كه از يك دغدغه ناب انساني سر چشمه مي گيرند ، چيزاهايي نيستند كه تاريخ مصرف داشته باشند. هرچند بيش از چندين دهه از عمر آن مي گذرد اما ، داستاني كه جرج اورول با روايتي جذاب و در عين حال ساده بيان مي كند ، در همه دوران تازه خواهد ماند چرا كه به نوعي روايت وجهي مهم از وجود انساني ماست:قدرت
داستان مزرعه حيوانات ،‌ ماجراي حيواناتيست كه براي رهايي از جور و ستم انسان دو پا ، بر عليه مالك مزرعه با شعار " همه حيوانات برابرن More...

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Dec 16, 2009

Douglas rated it:

The book "Animal Farm" I hated so much. I have never read a book that bored me as much as this one. I only read this because I was required to as a class. This book made me want to sleep after every single word. But to not be so harsh I believe I disliked this book so much because it was something I would normally never read. Its one of those books that teaches you lessons as you go along reading others. One lesson i learned from the book was if I know something and i'm not planning More...

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Jan 23, 2012

مهند rated it:

رواية شهيرة للاديب الانكليزي جورج اورويل
بالرغم من يساريته الا ان الرواية كانت ضد النظام الستاليني الاستبدادي آنذاك
رواية في غاية الروعة والدقة في التعبير والوصف
انصح بقرائتها وأقتنائها
كما وانصح برؤية الفيلم اذا وجد فهو بالرغم من انه كارتوني الا انه موصل للفكرة لمن يرغب في رؤيتها على الشاشة More...

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Oct 31, 2008

Jim rated it:

Allegories & anti-communist literature often leave me cold. This is both & could easily have been done poorly. Instead, it was perfect. Orwell manages to fit a farm seamlessly to communism in a way that makes me want to laugh & cry at the same time. It's short, sweet & to the point. Wow! What wonderful points he makes, too. He pokes holes in the theories of collectivism until it's leaking like a sieve & wraps up in style. It's been years since I last read it, but I still have images in my More...

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Sep 26, 2009

Anoud rated it:

As I just finished reading the novella, I found myself incredibly wearing an air of extreme excitement!! And I couldn't help it but to run towards the computer to write a review about it!

Animal Farm is one of the most spectacular literary works of all the time, not only during the 20th century. However, in order to get it right and enjoy its brilliance, you ought to go back in time and look at the conditions and events where this stunning novella was born. Orwell's novella is about More...

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May 16, 2011

Louize rated it:

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Jan 29, 2012

Danielle rated it:

I feel a little vindicated after reading this book that even though I may not have read a classic, I'm still familiar enough with it to judge it fairly. This book was exactly what I thought it was going to be. Which means I'm also right about what Lord of Flies is going to be, even though I haven't read it, right?
I seriously read this because it seems like you can't consider yourself a well-read person unless you have. Oh, and because it's super short.
But, as it turns out, it was a More...

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Aug 17, 2008

Ariyati rated it:

... and the animals succeeded to free themselves from previous master Mr Jone <the owner of Manor Farm>
now the conquered farm called 'Animal Farm'....

Just like every revolution begins with: ideal in principle and for the good of all. Everyone has same dream of equality and welfare.

Somehow,distorsion happen here and there. History changed, hero become the filth, commandement changed solely without the people acknowledgement <I mean it to write 'the people' More...

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Oct 18, 2007

Sara rated it:

I was on holiday in Scotland and this was on the bookshelf in the chalet were staying in. Having read 1984 I was interested in reading other Orwell's classics and with Animal Farm being popular reading material, I didn't see why not to give it a chance.

I read it in a day.

For the first time in a long time I picked up a book and couldn't put it down. That's what I enjoy about Orwell's writing. Its very easy to read and very addictive. I'm not a learned person when it com More...

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Dec 07, 2010

Amang rated it:

Pernah diterbitkan dengan judul Binatangisme hasil terjemahan Mahmud Djunaedi, Animal Farm terbit lagi di bawah bendera Fresh Book pada tahun 2006. Buku ini sebelumnya diterbitkan juga oleh penerbit Sumbu (Yogyakarta) tahun 2001. Karya aslinya (bahasa Inggris) terbit 17 Agustus 1945 di Inggris. Buku dari penerbit Sumbu dicetak dengan paperback dan 109 halaman (edisi Indonesia).

“Kawan-kawan, sudah jelas bahwa sumber kesengsaraan hidup kita tak lain adalah tirani manusia. Maka hanya More...

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Feb 07, 2009

HaNaDy rated it:

روعة روعة بجد جسد حقيقه موجوده فى عصور كتير بداية من رغبة الأفراد فى التخلص من الاستعمار لقيام الثورة وشعور الأفراد فى حاله انتصارهم وحب الزعامه ومايتم استبداله من أهداف قامت عليها الثورة إلى أهداف شخصية نزاجية وتوضح شىء هام جدا انقلاب النعمه إلى نقمه فى حالة أن ينسى الفرد أهدافه الأصليه ويسير مع أهواءه الشخصيه من هنا تحدث المتاعب

كمان فى حاجة مهمه أخدت بالى منها فى القصه بتحصل فى الواقع الزعيم أو الشخص الثائر بمجرد أنه يقعد على كرسى السلطة بيتغير تماماً

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May 15, 2008

Tim rated it:

Someone (I think it was Christopher Hitchens?) once said that Orwell was one of the people who got everything right during the first half of the 20th century. Namely, he opposed both fascism and communism and advocated for a humanist, democratic socialism. In other words, capitalism is the disease, socialism is the cure ... but communism will kill the patient.

Anyway, I thought this book was pretty damn insightful and way more entertaining (i.e. less preachy) than I expected. In a More...

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