Animal Farm

Title: Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell
Genre: Classic, Dystopian
Format: Kindle
Pages: 144
Reason Read: Book Club
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My Thoughts

While I’m glad I can say that I’ve read ANIMAL FARM, I absolutely despised it. I don’t even know how to explain how much I loathed this book.

I know the book is supposed to make you angry, which it did, but I think I was angry for the wrong reasons. Or, at least, I know people are going to say I missed the point of the book. Maybe so, but I hated the fact that Orwell used animals to make his point. I’m a huge animal lover and I hate watching animals get killed by humans, animals, or natural causes. So you can only imagine how I felt while reading.

The interesting thing is that if Orwell had written ANIMAL FARM with neither animals nor as a satire, I probably would’ve liked it because I do like historical fiction and Russia’s revolutionary history is one of my favorite time periods to read about. I would’ve liked to read about a character in each class living through the revolution rather than a satire with animals. It would’ve hit the mark for me much better had it been written like that.

Having read the book, I get why it’s a classic. I also get why so many people love it. It’s a fantastic illustration of Marxism and how Marxism changed Russia. The execution was just not for me.