Animal Farm, by George Orwell

This book is excellent! To be honest, I am a HUGE George Orwell fan, my fascination of him coming from an Anthropology class I took from a professor that does a lot of his studies in Myanmar. One of the best things about this book is it is an easy read. Sometimes when you are reading from a list of 1000 novels, you need a rest from all the intense books you have read thusfar. Animal Farm was definitely the break I needed. A rest for the mind, a simple plot with intense subtext.

This book is also quite humorous, as the animals attempt to take over the farm. Of course it is definitely fiction, the animals being able to perform the tasks of humans with ease. Often during the reading of this book I would stop just to try and imagine how a certain type of animal would perform a certain type of task. The main characters are easy to distinguish. There are a few side characters that I had to occasionally look back in the book to differentiate (For example, the neighbor farmer whose name started with a P had a farm starting with an F, but the other neighbor whose name started with an F had a farm starting with a P, though I think Orwell did this on purpose). This book is enjoyable if you read it straight down, but if you look into the deeper meaning of this novel (since most of Orwell's books do have a deeper meaning), it is profound and challenges the ways of the human race. Of course, exact challenges I will let you discover on your own, can't ruin the book for you can I?

All in all I give this book Five Stars (out of a possible Five). Easy to read, enjoyable, humorous, and yet still a classic that you will impress people with your profound views on the novel!

Now Reading:: The Old Men at the Zoo, by Angus Wilson