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[agchristie]

Hi Naomi,

Just to let you know that I have devoured Animal Farm in one sitting!

Although under a hundred pages I found the content and depth behind it more superior to some books I've read that are much longer.

As you stated Naomi it is a very thought-provoking tale which I found absorbing. I daren't face going to a farm again lest i will be seen as a threat (or carrying an ace of spades!). That Napolean character was a manipulator and the hard working horse who was carried away for slaughter. Snowball got the blame for everything!

Liked the seven commandments too and that 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' !!

Great ending too!

I'm off to construct the windmill now... ;)

1984 next up!

[agchristie]

Lol,I would have to doublethink about that!!

[naomi24]

Good thinking. The rewards aren't great.

[mibn2cweus]

For any Pink Floyd fans out there, this is the book from which their entire album, "Animals", (one of my favourites) is based.

[naomi24]

Hi Mibs, I'll listen. Thank you. :o)

[mibn2cweus]

I wouldn't classify it as 'easy listening' Naomi. ;o)

I also have a VHS of the . . . . animated movie.

[naomi24]

I'll watch. Thank you. :o)

[Hypognosis]

@agchristie

Read Animal Farm for Eng Lit 'O' Level and, whilst causing the downfall of tyranny seems both an obvious and honourable act I particularly liked the way it tricked me into believing that collectivism was a "good thing" - and also "logical" - before dashing all hopes by proving that no "revolutionary" can be trusted to not turn into a self-serving trough-snuffler.

Decades before his latterday namesake, he understood that regime-change is all very well and desirable but basic human failings mean that you dispose of a Tsar and their replacement soon becomes another; "more equal than others", as he put it.

I can no longer recall if I saw the animation before or after reading the book, nor whether it increased my understanding that it was allegory of actual history because I didn't learn the deeper details of that until later. As entertainments go, it is satisfying to see a work which can function as a children's cartoon on one level and as polemic, for the adults, simultaneously.

[agchristie]

Thanks for your reminiscences Hypo ;)