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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
fast-paced
“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”
….. hadn’t read this since high school and got a random urge to re-read.
….. hadn’t read this since high school and got a random urge to re-read.
reflective
fast-paced
medium-paced
Orwell took a political system and boiled it down to a simple story. I wish I was that smart
challenging
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Very surreal reading in 2025. Weird relating to an animal on a farm.
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
This book is 94 pages long. Yet the preamble to this edition of the book -- which includes a preface, a foreword, and an introduction, all by different authors -- is 29 pages long. I have no problem with an introduction to such a classic work, but this became both repetitive and tedious. Furthermore, these pieces elucidated much of the plot and themes of the novel, and even lifted multiple direct quotes from the novel. My advice for any other first time readers with this edition of this classic -- skip to the start of the novel and read the preamble as an afterward.
As for the actual novel (novella? novelette?), it was poignant and well done, although it was rather bleak and foreboding. The following quote from the book is an adequate summation of its mood:
As for the actual novel (novella? novelette?), it was poignant and well done, although it was rather bleak and foreboding. The following quote from the book is an adequate summation of its mood:
Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse -- hunger, hardship and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.