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Animal Farm
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#13 on NPR's Top 100 SF/F novels of all time (2011 poll) http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/1390858...
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Connor Kinkade
This book was ok. It was really boring. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone really. I think that books that "changed the world" are kind of annoying. Especially when a teacher makes you read the books. It's a reaction of the Russians. George Orwell was angry with the Stalin of Russia and expresses it with a story. Stalin worked his way up to dictatorship with his secret police. They ruthlessly killed everyone or took them as prisoner.

I don't like a lot of stories with that kind of voice like To Ki
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Traci Loudin
Jan 21, 2011 rated it did not like it
Shelves: male-author
Really drives its point home, which makes it less of a story and more of an essay, really. Way too didactic to be enjoyable.
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