I just thought this was ok as a teenager. I read it today at 39 and thought wow this book is something else. Frankly it's kind of eerie and entirely original. It concerns an animal farm. The animals rebel and start out free. By the end they are worse off than they were originally. The animals' commandments for example do not murder and not to use money all get broken eventually. The animals on the farm are pretty stupid as well just accepting the little phrases that get changed to each rule. I have to admit murder happened way sooner than I expected. Napoleon is one jerk. I found the ending perfect and utterly creepy. It proves you can pack in just as much in a novella as you can in an epic. This was a statement on Russia and totalitarianism. George Orwell was one fantastic writer.
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