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Animal Farm is a great book : Orwell was a genius with Dystopia.
I'm glad I read it now and not when I was younger, because I would have not understand everything.
This book is timeless. It was originally written as an allegory of the Russian Revolution/Stalin era, but I like (or should I say hate) to think it can also apply to a lot of other events, especially recent episodes. The quote that sums it up for me is probably "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others." ...more
I'm glad I read it now and not when I was younger, because I would have not understand everything.
This book is timeless. It was originally written as an allegory of the Russian Revolution/Stalin era, but I like (or should I say hate) to think it can also apply to a lot of other events, especially recent episodes. The quote that sums it up for me is probably "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others." ...more
A really well crafted satire portraying how a revolution which once started with the idea of an equal rights society , ends up in another totalitarian establishment. How the greed for power transforms Napoleon to a tyrant and how his bureaucrats manipulate the truth and make everyone stupefied.
The history of revolution may manifest the fact that almost all revolutionaries transform into a totalitarian dictator. No one wants to give up power, while everyone wants to take power, but still let ther ...more
The history of revolution may manifest the fact that almost all revolutionaries transform into a totalitarian dictator. No one wants to give up power, while everyone wants to take power, but still let ther ...more
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