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17. Animal Farm by George Orwell.

... revelation at the end. Still, worth reading for the setting and the common references, and also quite enjoyable. 69) Animal Farm by George Orwell. A re-read, although I last read it in middle school and barely remembered the plot. It's pretty straightforward allegory about communism: ...

... Ripley 39. Lord of the Flies 40. The Story of O 41. The Catcher in the Rye 42. Nineteen Eighty-Four 43. Animal Farm 44. The Little Prince 45. The Outsider 46. Goodbye to Berlin 47. Brighton Rock 48. Of Mice and Men 49. Gone With the Wind 50. Absalom, ...

... Kingsolver * The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger * Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Alternates Animal Farm by George Orwell Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (top 5 but it's non-fiction) Girl With a Pearl Earri ...

62 animal farm george orwell i'm re-reading this one after several years because today at a christmas party a relative in high school, for whom this is required reading, griped, "who would want to read a book about a bunch of commie animals?" all i could think was "who wouldn't?" on the ...

... I have convinced him to read American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Neuromancer by William Gibson and 1984 by Orwell. I have Animal Farm waiting in the wings for this Christmas holiday, along with the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake and Pattern Recognition because he asked me to get more ...

#182 Animal Farm features in my all time favourites, its so simple, yet so witty. #186 Crime and Punishment is another favourite of mine. #189 I tried reading Faust once, but gave after a couple of pages, poetry isn't my thing I guess, glad you liked it, will give it another try maybe next ...

... Atwood (5) Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler (6) A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (7) Animal Farm – George Orwell (8) Jennifer Government – Max Barry (9) The Man in the High Castle – Phillip K. Dick (10) Herland – Charlotte Pe ...

My favorites in the order I read them have to be: Liner Notes by Emily Franklin Animal Farm by George Orwell The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan Since it was a reread I didn't ...

To Kill a Mockingbird Oliver's Story Thanks for the Memories Breaking Dawn Animal Farm

Here's mine (in no particular order) from U.S.A.: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Lord of the Flies Animal Farm Fahrenheit 451 The Girl with Silver Eyes

We did Animal Farm and 1984 (and Brave New World) in 8th grade. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were in junior high too, I think 6th or 7th grade. 9th grade was a lot of grammer. We read A Tale of Two Cities, Romeo and Juliet, A Farewell to Arms, and several others I don't ...

33. Animal Farm by George Orwell Ugh, what a horrible book to read. It took me forever to finish it, even though it's such a tiny book.

... (through Bookmooch, via avatiakh!) ...and a whole bunch of books at the second hand book stalls on the South Bank: Animal Farm - George Orwell (so I have my own copy) The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham (again, so that I have my own copy) I, Claudius - Robert Graves Life T ...

50) Animal Farm by George Orwell I have tried reading this book three-four times before, but have failed to complete each and every time. Since it's been a good five years or so since my last attempt, I thought the time was here for yet another shot. This time it was a breeze, and I loved ...

... The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevskii (On)The Farm* byJohn Updike *I cheated:strictly, the title is OF the Farm (short novel)

... The Trial by Franz Kafka 4. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham 5. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 6. Animal Farm by George Orwell 7. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 8. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 9. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre 10. Night by E ...

#27 I don't deny the influences that 1984 had on science fiction, or wider culture. However, I thought that Animal Farm was the better book of the two dystopian novels that Orwell created, for a number of reasons. The chief difference to me was that in 1984, Orwell told you that everything ...

I finished Animal Farm and wished I had read it while Bush was president. What a timeless book! Now I am reading Cupid and Diana.

I just started Animal Farm and it has started off well.

I'm on a farm in England chewing over Animal Farm.

... Fear Nothing tonight and was a little disappointed because I usually enjoy Dean Koontz books much more. I pulled Animal Farm off my bookshelf to finally read because of all the Amazon/Kindle brew ha ha.

Emma by Jane Austen for literature class. And would be starting with Animal Farm by George Orwell for the same!

Animal Farm by George Orwell.

#32 The Farm by Richard Benson I was very worried this was going to end badly, but I was pleasantly surprised. It is a look at rural life in Great Britain and the many changes that have taken place in agriculture due to government. The author is the son of a small farmer whose family ...

After having enjoyed 1984 last month I indulged in Animal Farm by George Orwell. Brilliant read, enjoyable and relevant, another book which is probably wasted on bored teenagers in high school.

... The Lord of the Flies) All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others. (Orwell, Animal Farm) Edit: Added touchstones.

As a librarian who had to come up with subject headings while cataloging, I feel your pain. To me, Animal Farm is an animal story. If pushed, I might say a fanciful animal story. And an Allegory. Definitely not fantasy. I haven't read Firmin, so I can't be intelligent about it. (Am I ...

... fantasy. and there is no magic in Firmin, unless you count the simple magic inherent in reading it. it's the same as with Animal Farm (which i really don't care for). i just can't swallow calling it fantasy. i think this is down to an issue of my opinion of rats, i guess. to me, pretty much ...

... fantasy. and there is no magic in Firmin, unless you count the simple magic inherent in reading it. it's the same as with Animal Farm (which i really don't care for). i just can't swallow calling it fantasy. i think this is down to an issue of my opinion of rats, i guess. to me, pretty much ...

A second thought came to me. I remember the day my brother came into my room and I was reading a paperback of Animal Farm. The question put to me was "Why are you reading a kid's book?" Definate case of dismissing a good book because of the cover.

... winner!) and it is good fun, I can see why they called it a satire now, it's quite scathing about politics. (If I'd read Animal Farm maybe I could see some parallels there, but that one is, of course, buried in Mt TBR.) This is, of course, Eurovision weekend, so my spare time is spent ...

... Fables 4. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 5. Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass 6. Amerika 7. Animal Farm 8. Around the World in 80 Days 9. The Blind Assassin 1o. Brave New World 11. Breakfast at Tiffany's 12. Buddenbrooks 13. The Catcher in the Rye ...

... directions and explanations. Maybe it should have been kept to the human point of views, or to try something similar to Animal Farm, with animals only as 'humanized' characters. All in all, this is a deeply unsettling book, so potential readers may well decide to have a go at reading it ...

... Little Angels by Chris Tusa The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay Animal Farm by George Orwell Books to Read: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon ...

... Great Gatsby Crime and Punishment Grapes of Wrath Chronicles of Narnia The lion the witch and the wardrobe Animal Farm Da Vinci Code Handmaid's Tale Lord of the Flies Atonement Of Mice and Men Oliver Twist Notes from a Small Island The Color Purple Charl ...

We read 1984, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, Brave New World and even Ayn Rand (not that we understood it) in high school! Some personal favorites I can remember are A Wrinkle in Time, The Giver, Bradbury and Heinlein.

... entertaining since it seems like it borrowed some inspiration from it. I enjoyed it, but unlike Brave New World or Animal Farm I didn't feel it gained much from me reading it as an older, more knowledgeable reader.

... entertaining since it seems like it borrowed some inspiration from it. I enjoyed it, but unlike Brave New World or Animal Farm I didn't feel it gained much from me reading it as an older, more knowledgeable reader.

>114 I've only read Orwell's Animal Farm and like you, I loved it but for some reason never felt compelled to read more by him. I just had a strange feeling about his books, that they would be very different than AF and thus not to my taste. Obviously my "strange feelings" are useless and I need ...

... when I was 12. I think it was way too early for that book for me, although I'm sure I'd never like it. Same goes for Animal Farm (read the previous year for school) and another completely depressing book whose title I knew a minute ago but escapes me atm. Why can't kids be required to ...

Napoleon from Animal Farm?

... * 32- The trial 33- Brave new world 34- The hobbit 35- Of mice and men 36- The little prince 37- Animal farm 38- The plague 39- Cry, the beloved country * 40- Nineteen eigthy-four

A quick read - Animal Farm by George Orwell. It was banned in the USSR for being anticommunist. Orwell also found it difficult to get published here in the UK as the war had just finished and we were pro-Stalin at the time. This book is so easy to read and follow, much easier than I ...

14. Animal Farm by George Orwell This book is so easy to read and follow, much easier than I expected. I think the animal version of a revolution is very clever and he has been proven to be right so many times. It is at times upsetting to read but I would recommend it to everyone. It ...

I love Animal Farm and Island of the Blue Dolphins! You've had a great book day, that's for sure!

... Rosie by Kasey Michaels #8: All The Rivers Run by Nancy Cato #9: Night Sins by Tami Hoag and #10: Animal Farm by George Orwell Now for... Books I Bought At Goodwill Today: #1: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell #2: Light Can Be Both Wave and ...

... well in class. 1984 stands out for a wide variety of reasons - v. good for class discussion, i'd think. We had animal farm as well and, at the time, it seemed the satire was too broad.

... again. Other high school reads I thought were wonderful at the time, and still think so: Lord of the Flies; 1984; Animal Farm; and in junior high, The Merchant of Venice. I'll be interested in finding out which replacement(s) for A Separate Peace you choose. Good luck!

... were more factual in their description, but still horrible. Quite wanting to read something else by Orwell now, I've read Animal Farm before. Oh and a few of his essays in his Decline of the English Murder collection. Was it Orwell that said something about how he felt it unecessary to use 'b ...

... it much more now, but I still somehow keep avoiding a re-read of it... Definitely To Kill a Mockingbird, though, and Animal Farm. And I think the old standby of Shakespeare is great as long as the kids are somewhat mature and have a good teacher to prevent the students from getting bogged ...

I will suggest Little Women and Animal Farm. Maybe even Of Mice and Men. I don't know what the other grade's reading lists are like, but I hope these give you some helpful ideas.

2008 is over already. God, the passage of time sure gets confusing as you get older: The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks Animal Farm, George Orwell How Fiction Works, James Wood Mary Stuart, Friedrich Schiller No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy Reading like a Writer, Francine Pros ...

... something I intend to re-read and doubtful it will remain on my bookshelf for too long. The same can probably be said for Animal Farm. The latter is more deserving of a classic status though and this may just save it from the charity shop.

... De Bernieres (Another movie that I watched) 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 T ...

... it was a surprisingly easy read, with some amusing incidents and interesting observations. I'd previously read 1984 and Animal Farm which I loved but this has inspired me to read other Orwell too.

... on his times. Where, in fact, do you place satire, if it is in the guise of fiction? Another classic example is Orwell's Animal Farm. And then there are works published that are ostensibly non-fiction (e.g. Chariots of the Gods) but which strain that classification to the absolute limit, ...

... in high school but am not positive). I loved To Kill a Mockingbird, Nineteen Eighty Four, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Lolita, The Secret History, Jude the Obscure, and The Remains of the Day. - And I am oh so proud to admit to having read Bridget J ...

I *FINALLY* read and reviewed Animal Farm (can't even remember when it was requested of me). My review is here. tjsjohanna - Since you're a fiction girl how about The Sword of Shannara next? I read that one ages ...

... The Girl With No Shadow (Loving it!!! Anyone who has read and enjoyed Chocolat should check it out!) Last read: Animal Farm Next: Krik? Krak! (since it's a library book and is due soon) 3. What book did everyone like and you hated? The Time Traveler's Wife, The Da Vinci Cod ...

... Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Giver - Lois Lowry

I just finished Animal Farm and now I'm reading The Girl With No Shadow (which is the sequel to Chocolat).

... Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 52 D ...

... robe 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 51 Life of Pi - Yann ...

... Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 ...

... Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 The ...

... Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden *40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne *41 Animal Farm - George Orwell *42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 T ...

... an adult, and when it was merely a trilogy), and his The End of Eternity, which do bear on history, however fancifully. Animal Farm, Jude the Obscure, War and Peace, Dune, Huxley’s The Doors of Perception and Island, No Exit, The Stranger, the syllabus of 11th grade AP America ...

... what I checked out last weekend: The Importance of Being Earnest (just finished) Bel Canto (currently reading) Animal Farm Krik? Krak! The Girl With No Shadow

... of Darkness & Other Stories by Joseph Conrad * 3.8 Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson * 3.9 Animal Farm by George Orwell *

... reading if I don't particularly like something. Some examples of recent years have been Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Animal Farm, and Cryptonomicon. I wanted to like all three of these, but just couldn't get into them. Might try again sometime later in life. An author I as a buddhist ...

... enina 2. Wuthering Heights 3. Jane Eyre 4. Clarissa 5. Tess of the D'Urbervilles 6. A Tale of Two Cities 7. Animal Farm 8. The Portrait of a Lady 9. Little Women

... Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 27. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien 28. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood 29. Animal Farm - George Orwell 30. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell 31. Foundation - Isaac Asimov 32. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger 33. The Old Man and ...

... Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 27. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien 28. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood 29. Animal Farm - George Orwell 30. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell 31. Foundation - Isaac Asimov 32. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger 33. The Old Man and ...

... Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 27. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien 28. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood 29. Animal Farm - George Orwell 30. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell 31. Foundation - Isaac Asimov 32. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger 33. The Old Man and ...

... The Catcher in the Rye -- J. D. Salinger 60) 1984 -- George Orwell 61) Cry, the Beloved Country -- Alan Paton 62) Animal Farm -- George Orwell 63) Ficciones -- Jorge Luis Borges 64) Farewell, My Lovely -- Raymond Chandler 65) The Power and the Glory -- Graham Greene 66) T ...

... books, and there are lots of "short" great novels too: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, My Antonia, Animal Farm, Pan, Orlando.....

... will write after Harry. She said something like a "political fairy tale" or something like that. I immediately thought of Animal Farm and, if so, that can only be a good thing!

... Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of ...

... The movie is good, you should try and find it so you could watch it, you might want to bring some tissues if you do. :) Animal Farm was very good, my best friend Terra suggested I read it. I think you should reread it, maybe this summer? Catey P.S. I do have a new thread running ...

... to Terabithia is sad, I never saw the movie, but read the book again when the movie came out. I have better memories of Animal Farm, I read it LONG ago, over 30 years back I think, so it might be time for a re-read. Anita

... Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon East of Eden by John Steinbeck Putting on the shelf for awhile Animal Farm by George Orwell The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff A Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger The Society of S by Susan Hubbard A ...

... target="_blank">Animal Farm by George Orwell I give this book 3.5/5. It was a good book and a pretty sad one at that. tash99 in 50 Book Challenge : tash99's 50 book challenge (Feb 7, 2009, 11:35pm)

15. Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell; I read Animal Farm and 1984 years ago, but recently I've been reading Orwell's non-fiction, and it's interesting to see how the ideas he ends up using in those later books were developing so much earlier. His descriptions of the absurdity of war, and ...

... Steinbeck Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Emma by Jane Austen Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger Animal Farm by George Orwell Tales from the Arabian Nights by Pete Hamill Robin Hood by Paul Creswick To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

... life, beginning with his lowly origins. The book's themes are similar to other dystopian novels (think 1984 or Animal Farm), and the apocalyptic setting satisfied my taste for "end of the world" novels. It was also interesting to read a novel by a descendant of Tolstoy. There ...

... that have made them cry, but haven't been very successful so far. I almost cried at the end of Filth and during Animal Farm. And I was definitely teary-eyed when I read For Esme With Love and Squalor - a short story from Salinger's Nine Stories. That's pretty much it :) How about ...

I just finished teaching this one. No commentary necessary! 22. Animal Farm by George Orwell (97 pages)

... 70. I, Robot Isaac Asimov 71. Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 72. The Plague Albert Camus 73. Animal Farm George Orwell 74. Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 75. The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery 76. Embers Sandor Marai 77. Th ...

... that. So far the books on that list of mine that I have from the library are: East of Eden and Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, I think thats it so far. But I will try to get more throughout the years since their is over 1000 books there, ...

... at my various bookcases and my eyes fall favorably on certain books that I really treasure owning. I have an edition of ANIMAL FARM that features illustrations by Ralph Steadman. A good early edition of OF MICE AND MEN. For years I looked for a volume called FROM A DARKENED ROOM (strang ...

... Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff and The Secret Garden with A Little Princess. and up next: East of Eden and Animal Farm and A Catcher in the Rye. Catey

51. Animal Farm, 1980s 52. The Plague, 2007 53. If This is a Man, 2008 54. Nineteen Eighty-Four, 2007 55. The Heat of the Day, 2008 56. The 13 Clocks, 2006 57. The Catcher in the Rye, 1980s 58. The Old Man and the Sea, 1970s 59. The Lord of the Flies, 1970s 60. The Lord ...

... / drama Graphic novels and comics but personally I'd find it a bit odd if where the wild things are was next to animal farm

I had to read Animal Farm at school, but didn't like it... Maybe I'll read it again.

You're Animal Farm!
by George Orwell
You are living proof that power corrupts and whoever leads you will become just as bad as the ...

... Tolkien The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams I, Robot Isaac Asimov Animal Farm George Orwell Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...

#68: Completely agree about An American Tragedy. It is emotionally exhausting. Thanks for the reviews of Animal Farm and To the Lighthouse, Mac. Great job as usual and I am adding both to the Continent.

Book #4, Animal Farm by George Orwell 118 pages Classic 100 best list Manor Farm erupts in revolution and the animals take over, with the pigs, the intelectual elite, in charge. Renamed Animal Farm, the pigs initiate a democratic process, electing leaders, establishing rules, and ...

Halfway through January and I'm already far behind in writing about my reading. I shall try to catch up this weekend. Animal Farm by George Orwell As said above, I had a book club to read this for. Unfortunately, the book club was cancelled--apart from the moderator, I was the only ...

I still owe a review on Animal Farm which I finished up quickly today. I am on To the Lighthouse with Virginia Woolf.

35. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 36. Animal Farm by George Orwell

... perspective. It is not as academic as some of the other VSIs so it was an easy read but also quite interesting. 8. Animal Farm is a good read even if only taken at face value, however when the intentions of Orwell's Russian Revolution analogy are considered it becomes very powerful, ...

... and it's written by authors who mostly don't do speculative fiction. I liked most of my high school reading list: Animal farm, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and The Crucible all were fun and taught me interesting things about humanity. I even ...

... week, I have two book club meetings, and somehow, they are both to discuss George Orwell works. Tonight I'm rereading Animal Farm, and I need to get to the library in the next couple of days to pick up 1984 (I'm not sure what happened to our copy). Since I clearly left this until the ...

... The Razor's Edge, Maughm, 1960's 139. Loving, Henry Green, 1970's 140. Cannery Row, Steinbeck, 1960's 141. Animal Farm, George Orwell, 1965 142. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1980's 143. The Plague, Albert Camus, 1980's 144. Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry, 1960 ...

... The Razor's Edge, Maughm, 1960's 139. Loving, Henry Green, 1970's 140. Cannery Row, Steinbeck, 1960's 141. Animal Farm, George Orwell, 1965 142. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1980's 143. The Plague, Albert Camus, 1980's 144. Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry, 1960 ...

... and I am looking forward to it. Any good book recommendations would be much appreciated. so far iI have read..... 1 Animal Farm by George Orwell This book has been recommend to me many times and I finally got around to reading it. I really enjoyed it. I don't know much about the Stalin ...

Yes, but again it depends on what they are. Orwell's Animal farm can be finished in a day whilst Atlas Shrugged might take you two to three months, depending on how much time you have.

... Books 7/9 1. Emma by Jane Austen (Completed 4 April) 2. Perelandra by C.S. Lewis (Completed 8 May) 3. Animal Farm by George Orwell (Completed 13 Jan) 4. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (Completed 16 May) 5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

I was thinking of picking up The Road again soon (a bit bleak for the season though) -- working on Animal Farm this weekend...

Animal Farm by George Orwell Read in high school.

... ook genoten van Waterschapsheuvel van Richard Adams. Als kinderboek vind ik Eend voor eend van Guus Kuijer erg goed. Animal Farm van George Orwell is natuurlijk het voorbeeld uit de vorige eeuw van een politieke satirische allegorie met dieren in de hoofdrol. Het middeleeuwse episch ...

... One by Donovan Campbell 2. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 3. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 4. Animal Farm by George Orwell 5. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 6. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 7. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 8. App ...

7. Classics 1. Little Women 2. Animal Farm 3. Great Expectations 4. Doctor Zhivago 5. Dracula 6. A Midsummer Night's Dream 7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 9. To Kill A Mockingbird

FYI for #84, MsDonna is in Australia. But that is a pretty small book i expect (Animal Farm).

... take a look at that site. I certainly like the matter-of-fact way in which Orwell writes. I'd previously only read Animal Farm and 1984, but I'm now very keen to move on to Homage to Catalonia and The Road to Wigan Pier.

... Boulle 92. Parsival or a Knights Tale--Richard Monaco 93. The Dog Who Wouldn't Be--Farley Mowat 94. Animal Farm--George Orwell Between Star Trek and Planet of the Apes I read exactly half of Wicked. I gave it over two hundred pages to enchant me, but it just wasn't ...

On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. Animal Farm by George Orwell

... almost any book by Kurt Vonnegut once they start to read more literature. To begin with some books like Stardust or Animal Farm.

I've read Animal Farm but I've never read A Brave New World

I've read Animal Farm but I've never read Wuthering Heights.

I've read Crispin: The Cross of Lead but I've never read Animal Farm.

... er The End of the Affair Graham Greene Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene Animal Farm George Orwell The Power and the Glory Graham Greene Brighton Rock Graham Greene To The Lighthouse Virginia Woolf The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzg ...

... - especially as a woman - because of our human tendency to objectify and subjugate that which is different. (Like Animal Farm: all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.) Personally, I do not make the same distinctions as Aquinas did, although as I indicated, we do get ...

... Watching God 2. Atonement - finished 3. Tender is the Night 4. The Talented Mr. Ripley 5. Frankenstein 6. Animal Farm 7. Catch 22 8. The Great Gatsby Award Winners 1. The God of Small Things - Booker Award 2. The Blind Assassin - Booker Award 3. Life of Pi - Bo ...

... Watching God 2. Atonement - finished 3. Tender is the Night 4. The Talented Mr. Ripley 5. Frankenstein 6. Animal Farm 7. Catch 22 8. The Great Gatsby Award Winners 1. The God of Small Things - Booker Award 2. The Blind Assassin - Booker Award 3. Life of Pi - Bo ...

... philosophies, and how writing affects politics and everyday life. Obviously, Orwell writes on these topics in his Animal Farm and 1984 novels, but these essays were published for a different purpose. They are fascinating to read because they give the most direct insight into Orwell's ...

... it was A Wizard of Earthsea; then in junior high/middle school, we read Flowers for Algernon, Planet of the Apes, and Animal Farm. Our drama class read aloud, then enacted, several Star Trek scripts. That was cool. (I got to be Chekhov.) High school brought Alas, Babylon, 198 ...

... Collectors but since the collective combining knowledge resides here this is where I will start. Can anyone tell me why Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby & One flew over the cuckoo's nest, amongst others, are suggested as possible combinations for Fourpawz2 in 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : FlossieT's 75 for 2008 (Oct 9, 2008, 2:49pm)

Oh Flossie, I agree with you about 1984 and Animal Farm. I read the former at my mother's urging and just HATED it. Winston and his icky leg ulcers - a picture I'll never get out of my head - and the other was not much better for me. (Congrats on the 75.)

... magnificent allowance." I guess I'm maybe the wrong reader for this as I have never been that fond of Orwell - disliked Animal Farm, couldn't finish 1984 - so this is one of those occasions where I was definitely swayed by the packaging! The concept of the first essay, which gave the book ...

There were no rules about reading when I was growing up. In fact, I remember attempting Animal Farm when I was 7 on the idea that because I was reading chapter books, I might like grown-up books. I chose Animal Farm because of the title and the fact that it was small. I am pretty sure I didn't ...

We need an Animal Farm for trickle down theory.

... in Barcelona were fighting each other instead of managing to unite successfully against the fascists). His 1984 and Animal Farm are excellent examples of a writer raising some wonderful political questions --I always prefer questions to answers -- without stooping to oversimplication or ...

... near art to true art. That's a defining moment or an epiphany. Picasso's murals at the 1937 French exposition or Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 and Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls all are all directly come from their experience and of the Spanish Civil War. They all had the skill and ...

... the goal of 50 books by the same time next year. And then maybe I'll increase it...who knows? So far I've read: 1. Animal Farm by George Orwell 4.5/5 2. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 4.5/5 3. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 3.5/5 4. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer 4/5 5. The ...

... to apologize for what you read! Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens: Like most people my age I read 1984 and Animal Farm many years ago an considered that was Orwell. Not too long ago I went to a lecture by Anthony Bourdain (the chef on TV--much neater in person!) and he highly ...

Last year I took a course on dystopian novels and we read: Darkness at Noon, Nineteen Eighty-four, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, and one that hasn't been mentioned yet, Bend Sinister, by Nabokov. (I guess my university sees Animal Farm as dystopian, despite what has been said here.) I ...

No idea... a clue, maybe? Because the only thing I'm thinking is Animal Farm, and I'm 90% sure there is no bear in that book.

... side The Dog Who Wouldn't Be by Farley Mowat In school when in the 7th and 8th grades we read (and I enjoyed) Animal Farm by George Orwell, Tales of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Cannery Row by John Steinbeck and It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis ...

... work, I had to totally suspend belief. It's written in a realistic style--there are no talking animals (fables such as Animal Farm), and lover's passion does not cause rooms to spontaneously combust (magical realism such as Like Water for Chocolate). But the way the apartment complex is ...

... work, I had to totally suspend belief. It's written in a realistic style--there are no talking animals (fables such as Animal Farm), and lover's passion does not cause rooms to spontaneously combust (magical realism such as Like Water for Chocolate). But the way the apartment complex is ...

Jane Eyre lived Forever and a Day on her small Animal Farm near Middlemarch before she grew tired of the Petty Bourgeois

... with bogart, bacall & huston and almost lost my mind katherine hepburn the story of an african farm olive schreiner animal farm george orwell animal dreams barbara kingsolver dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance barack obama

... George Orwell. I think Nineteen Eighty-four is one of the most important books on the list, and I also think Animal Farm is brilliant. Not on the 1001 list, but also great is Down and Out in Paris and London. Honourable mention to Michael Ondaatje, who wrote The English ...

... to be a classic then? Because it was published in 1939? The Great Gatsby misses it by two years? Faulkner's stuff? Animal Farm? Native Son? Lolita?

this week i am reading "Dali and I" an LibraryThing early reviewer book and getting around to the Alchemist and Animal Farm

> #21: One of my favorite challenges is Animal Farm because it portrays talking animals. I understood Animal Farm had been banned due to political overtones in the book, rather than the talking animals. It has been a very long time since I read that one though. Am I confused, or just ...

One of my favorite challenges is Animal Farm because it portrays talking animals. As though kids don't have the intelligence to know animals don't talk. Its a fairy tale people, its written that way to make a point. If you object to it because it anthropomorphizes animals, you're missing the ...

... iuk 5. Diary by Chuck Palahniuk 6. Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk 7. Stranger than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk 8. Animal Farm by George Orwell 9. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 10. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 11. Franny & Zooey by JD Salinger 12 ...

Well, I had grand plans to start the month with Animal Farm but I forgot that Breaking Dawn was coming out and that had to take priority on my TBR list (reviewed here). I'll try to get to AF soon though but I just ...

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... il - The Color Purple I know there were a lot more in my high school career, but I can't remember now! I know I read Animal Farm, 1984, Brave New World and Lord of the Flies but I don't think any of them were for class.

... Tread The Maltese Falcon The Sun Also Rises The Talented Mr. Ripley Kim Death in Venice The Razor's Edge Animal Farm The Crying of Lot 49 All Quiet on the Western Front Portnoy's Complaint One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Treasure Island The Hobbit Aro ...

Best of luck, whitewave! As for my most recent assignment (Animal Farm), I am looking forward to reading it but right now I'm happily swimming in a sea of ARCs and feel compelled to place them at the top of my TBR mountain. Hopefully I'll get to Animal Farm by early August. :)

Book 12 was Animal Farm a classic that I had somehow never read. It is inside a book with three other stories by George Orwell, one of which I have read before but I may check out the others. Hoping to keep this momentum up...

... House In The Big Woods, a fantastic children's story. elbakerone you had a lot of good ones but I'm going to go with Animal Farm, a classic that I hope you enjoy! Whoever chooses for me please pick anything tagged TBR. Thanks!

... of Charles Schulz; Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography yesterday. I am going to read, for the very first time I might add, Animal Farm.

This month we met at Cheryl's house. Here's the books we read: Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote Animal Farm, by George Orwell Call of the Wild, by Jack London Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy

... on how much time I have free that day, I might be able to finish a book that's 100-300 pages long. Some short reads: Animal Farm by George Orwell The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louise Stevenson The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, and others by John Steinbeck The Un ...

pigs (I'm thinking of Animal Farm, in case you're wondering)

... parcel had 5 book in it. Best of all- no doubles! In the fiction one: The Woman in White A High Wind in Jamaica Animal Farm Huckelberry Finn I Capture the Castle In the non-fiction one: The Gunpowder Plot St Joan of Arc The Great Plague The Zimmermann Telegram T ...

Animal Farm George Orwell Of the Farm John Updike Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett

... (wow, stephanie meyer books have started to touchstone) and reread the chronicles of narnia and am currently reading animal farm and inkheart. I haven't really decided what I'm going to read next, mostly because I plan to read many books this summer.

... Capote The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (I think this one only works if you've read it as a teenager though). Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (though I haven't liked anything else of his I'd read).

... ger A Room With a View by E.M. Forster The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London

... beginning to get a bit worried about my bank account. Regarding the spines, those books I have which are from the 80s (Animal Farm, P.G. Wodehouse's Short Stories and Mistress Masham's Repose) are all sewn and open flat (the latter a bit less, as the binding is very tight). The books I ...

... Mole because of this thread and it is very funny. I love his suggesting that he might become a vet after reading a bit of Animal Farm.

... ---------------------------------- What about: Mysteries by Knut Hamsun? or War with the newts by Karel Capec or Animal Farm by George Orwell?

... was a needy 9 month old at the time, but I managed to read it while feeding her, pushing her on the swing, bathing her. Animal Farm--This one is short, and Orwell's writing is clear and concise. I personally think the story is great. Sarah, Plain and Tall is a novella written for ...

I finished my chronicles of narnia reread, and have started animal farm

... Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and To have and Have Not Beuty and Sadness Lolita Animal Farm and Burmese Days and Animal Farm The Vendor of Sweets Waiting for Godot The Plague and The Stranger The Gulag Archipeligo Confessions of a Ma ...

My list is not ordered: Animal Farm by George Orwell Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (as much as I hate it) Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien The Bible (whichever version) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell War ...

My list is not ordered: Animal Farm by George Orwell Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (as much as I hate it) Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien The Bible (whichever version) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell War ...

34. Animal Farm and Related Readings by George Orwell (182 pages)

6. Animal Farm by George Orwell I really liked this book, very, very, very good!

... And he had nice things to say about George Orwell in the introduction he wrote to my copy of Nineteen-Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. But this is such a quick read --really, if I hadn't been interrupted I could have read it in a little over an hour. Definitely worth tracking down.

I didn't read much on April, but was lucky enough that my readings included these books: Animal Farm - George Orwell Changing - Liv Ullmann (memoir)

... is simple as far as I can remember and it's such a classic and lovable story. Farenheit 451 is another simple classic. Animal Farm and Anthem, too. What about Agatha Christie mysteries? I second the Cat Who books as well. And this may be totally out of left field, but what ...

... for Adano, and 2 classics were published that year in the UK: Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and George Orwell's Animal Farm.

I read Animal Farm and 1984 some years ago, and they were really shocking to me. And so was Brave New World. It looks like these books are going to become constantly more relevant. Unforetunately !!!

... afrikanske farm (Isak Dinesen, psevd. for Karen Blixen) Of Mice and Men (long ago, favorite) The Grapes of Wrath Animal Farm (favorite) La Peste 1984 (favorite) The Grass is Singing (long ago) Molloy Malone meurt The Old Man and the Sea (long ago) Go Tell It on the ...

Animal Farm is SUPERB!! I definitely need A Great and Terrible Beauty on my list.

I've taken a little break from Middlemarch to celebrate reaching the halfway point and read 38. Animal farm by George Orwell I've read this before in high school, but I remembered nothing about it, except the obvious 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'. It ...

Five Classics: Three Men in a Boat Rebecca Brave New World Animal Farm A Handful of Dust plus a honorary mention for anything by PG Wodehouse Five contemporaries: The Cement Garden The Crow Road White Teeth The Remains of the Day What A Carve Up!

1984 Animal Farm The Posionwood Bible You Suck Series of Unfortunate Events A Great and Terrible Beauty Nineteen Minutes Pillars of the Earth Gathering Blue Endymion Spring

Of the As I've read, I enjoyed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Amok , and Animal Farm the most. Huckleberry Finn and Animal Farm are both great, if different commentaries about societies. Amok was a different take on the typical Victorian storyline. At least that's how it seemed to me. ...

Animal Farm, American Psycho and Amerika. Sorry, can't decide which I like best of those three...

Mill on the Floss by George Eliot & Animal Farm by George Orwell both read in high school, which was terrible because it soured me on those authors that are looked upon as classic authors. It'll be a while before I read anything by them, if ever.

... for it, but I agree with one LT reviewer who wrote that this book is a waste of McEwan's (very real) talent. #23: Animal Farm by George Orwell. I first read it in middle school, with a great teacher, and I loved it back then. Happily, I loved it just as much the second time around, a ...

... Odyssey. She loves the story but hates the poetic format. Ditto The Iliad. Honors English is just getting started on Animal Farm - can't wait to see what she thinks of IT. (I'm re-reading it myself just to see where they go with it).

Went on a bit of a reading binge this weekend, after turning in a project. First read George Orwell's Animal Farm (loved it in middle school, love it now), then Flatland by Edwin Abbott, then The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe. I've just started Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm (which ...

... ead: *highly recommened The Catcher in the Rye* Catch-22* Lolita To Kill a Mockingbird The Lord of the Rings* Animal Farm A Clockword Orange* Lord of the Flies Slaughterhouse-Five The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* Rebecca* The Count of Monte Cristo On my shelf: ...

Yes, I read Animal Farm. Not in high school though... What about Candide, or, Optimisme?

Oxfam Books again a nice old hardback edition of Animal Farm by George Orwell Quartet four stories by Vladimir Nabokov From Books for Cooks 2 thin pamphlets about Elizabeth David (both share a title as well) Favorite Recipes (books 1,2,3) by Books for Cooks ...

... 15 years since I graduated high school) to read ones that I wasn't assigned in high school. Lately that's been: 1984 Animal Farm Slaughterhouse Five Heart of Darkness Of Mice and Men Fahrenheit 451 Currently, I'm reading A Tale of Two Cities

... there were none, Agatha Christie Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt Atonement, Ian McEwan War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Animal Farm, George Orwell

... asy: 1. The Hobbit FINISHED 2. The Lord of the rings 50th anniversary edition FINISHED 3. Frankenstein FINISHED 4. Animal farm 5. His dark materials 6. Alice in Wonderland 7. The once and future king 8. Dracula

animal farm was the bomb! how could anyone not like it? :( i have tried 3 different books by eric jerome dickey and stoped around 50 for each one. i just really, really, really HATE his writing. the women characters are all overly emotional, dependent, pathetic. i got up to pg 50 for ...

... stein 23. Bram Stoker - Dracula 24. George Orwell - 1984 (my year of birth...) 25. George Orwell - Dierenboerderij ( Animal Farm ) 26. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles 27. H.G. Wells - War of the worlds 28. Rudyard Kipling - Jungle Book 29. Hector Malot - Al ...

16.Animal Farm by George Orwell fast and interesting read.

... was very well done. Watch and see if you like it. Twilight I think you have been around here to know what this is. Animal Farm I had to read it years ago for a government class, so of course I didn't like it. I don't remember much.

... with my aunt a few years ago but didn't finish) 24. Twilight 34. The Reptile Room (also, the rest of the series) 52. Animal Farm

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel Cunt by Inga Muscio and Betty Dodson Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel Animal Farm by George Orwell Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

... I think I would be permanently depressed about the human race. Of the ones you reviewed, I have read Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, 1984 andFahrenheit 451, but that was spread out over a couple years. I've also read We and since you haven't tackled that one yet, I'll give it a shot. ...

... day. Some high school students were discussing the books they'd been set for the term. One of them said they were doing Animal Farm. Another replied with "Isn't that the one with the animals, and one of them's Abraham Lincoln, an' 'e's a dictator, or something." I had to suddenly focus very ...

5. Animal Farm by George Orwell, another audiobook. One of those books that pretty much everyone reads in high school, that I had managed to miss. I wasn't too impressed during the first half hour or so, but as the story went on, I became more involved, and more angry, and just -- angry. As I ...

... ----------- At the end of December I read The French Lieutenant's Woman, which I thought was great. It bumps off either Animal Farm or The Yellow Wallpaper.

> 76: Animal Farm Kino awakened in the near dark.

2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899). So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ...

... I'll have to read some day... Hmmm... some others of mine: 1) 1984: bought it, started it, didn't finish it. 2) Animal Farm: Ditto. 3) The Catcher in the Rye 4) Brave New World #39 Alanna, I think that film may very well be the film that has impressed me the most in my ...

Today I decided to burn through my Barnes and Noble gift card. I've finally replaced my long lost copies of Animal Farm and 1984. I also picked up The Devil in the White City. I've been looking that one over forever.

Animal Farm by George Orwell

... Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (6/10) 3. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut (9/10) 4. Animal Farm by George Orwell 5. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (8/10) 7. The Great Gatsby by F. Sco ...

... Their Eyes Were Watching God 2. Atonement 3. Tender is the Night 4. The Talented Mr. Ripley 5. Frankenstein 6. Animal Farm 7. Catch 22 8. The Great Gatsby

... Gatsby The Stand The World According to Garp TBR pile (15 books deep): Catch 22 To Kill a Mockingbird Animal Farm

... modern classics such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos, The Great Gatsby, Animal Farm etc. I've always had quite eclectic tastes, even from a very young age, and continue to try and vary my reading. I think it helped that my Mam is also a ...

Animal Farm George Orwell I think Animal Farm is an amazing achievement because Orwell tells a complete story, one with no messy unanswered questions and no ambiguity, all in 80-odd pages. Orwell wrote it as an allegory of the Soviet revolution, but it still works for the reader who doesnâ ...

... tler Bend Sinister, by Vladimir Nabokov Lord of the Flies, by William Golding And, Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-four, all by George Orwell. Homage to Catalonia is Orwell’s memoirs of the Spanish Civil War, which gave him the idea to write the ...

... es 7. The Master of Jalna, Mazo de la Roche 19 copies 8. Miss Bishop, Bess Streeter Aldrich 8 copies 9. The Farm, Louis Bromfield 14 copies 10. Little Man, What Now?, Hans Fallada 43 copies N O N F I C T I O N 1. Life Begins at Forty, Walter B. Pitkin ...

... Melville 61. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 62. Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell 63. Animal Farm by George Orwell 64. 1984 by George Orwell 65. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 66. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth 67. Don Quixote ...

... ce 18. Spanish Lessons Derek Lambert 19. When Rabbit Howls Truddi Chase 20. The Best Laid Plans Sidney Sheldon 21. Animal Farm George Orwell 22. She's Come Undone Wally Lamb 23. Lovers & Players Jackie Collins 24. Border Fire Amanda Scott 25. The Architect Keith Ablow 26. M ...

November '07 67. The Secret River, by Kate Grenville 68. Animal Farm, by George Orwell 69. Cinnamon Gardens, by Shyam Selvadurai 70. Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan 71. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood 72. Nineteen Eighty-four, by George Orwell 73. T ...

I just reread Animal Farm and I loved it! I think it's brilliant . . . in part because it's short. I wouldn't like it so much if it had gone on for 200 or more pages. I kinda like Henry-Look-How-Much-Flowery-Prose-I-Can-Write James, but it's fun to make fun of him.

I've only read 2 for the year so I'm stuck! Animal Farm and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

... element of the 'political' and the 'personal' that divides the two writers. Much of Orwell's work, even beyond the obvious Animal Farm and 1984, deals with the socio-political climate of his time - he is writing to make a specific point about a political viewpoint/ideology. Kafka, on the ...

... the rules are vague and constantly shifting, so that it's impossible to follow them, even though you must. Bringing in Animal Farm, "everything not forbidden is mandatory," except in Kafka, some things are both forbidden and mandatory.

Animal Farm by George Orwell

... I do remember reading A Christmas Carol Silas Marner - intensely dull in my opinion A Midsummer Night's Dream Animal Farm (but there must be at least 5 others that we did in detail just by virtue of number of terms) For GCSE Romeo and Juliet Pride and Prejudice I'm the K ...

... The Guardians by John Christopher (touchstones rebelling) which I was deeply unimpressed by; Jane Eyre, Macbeth, Animal Farm, Far From the Madding Crowd, Romeo and Juliet, An Inspector Calls, To Kill a Mockingbird, Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry, Othello (which was sort of an ...

... by John Steinbeck Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Brave New World by Aldous Huxley To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee Animal Farm by George Orwell As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 1984 by George Orwell Emma by Jane Austen The Scarlet Le ...

... fact that it was about a bunch of rabbits. I don't know why I couldn't wrap my head around that because I absolutely love Animal Farm. Of course, the latter is only about 100 pages.

... that long or what, but I have rarely read a book through in one sitting (if fact I can name both times I did it: once was Animal Farm and the other was Danse Macabre). BTW: The Emperor books I am reading through are average 500 page mass market paperbacks. Assuming you were enjoying ...

Just picked up Animal Farm -- dodn't realize it was YA Lit, but it's got a big sticker that says it is... never finished Golden Compass, left it at my son's orthodontist with 3 or 4 chapters to go! Oh noooooooo....

So far I have read: The Grapes of wrath To Kill a Mockingbird Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Animal Farm A Clockwork Orange A Farewell to Arms The Scarlet Letter Beloved Herzog Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Charlotte's Web in my TBR pile are the ...

... 14 Beloved by Morrison, Toni, 13 Gone with the Wind by Mitchell, Margaret, 13 Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir, 13 Animal Farm by Orwell, George, 13 The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger, J.D., 13 Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut, Kurt, 13 And here's a list of the lists I used: ...

It's a new month, so I'll start the thread. Which of the 1001 are you reading this month? Later today I will start Animal Farm by George Orwell. I read it about 20 years ago, but I need to reread it for a class I'm taking.

... opinions about 1984 by George Orwell. I wouldn't call it awful per se, but I just couldn't get through it. I loved Animal Farm but I just couldn't get through 1984. It was just so bleak and depressing I just couldn't finish it. Does anyone else find that the mood, tone or emotions ...

... here. Currently I'm studying Dystopic fiction, so in the next month I will compare some of 1984, Darkness at Noon, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Bend Sinister, Fahrenheit 451, The Trial, We, The Handmaid's Tale and/or Brave New World.

... so I decided to buy 1984. Believe it or not they didn't have it! Not one copy, but they did have about 50 copies of Animal Farm from various publishers. I was really peeved.

84. Animal Farm by George Orwell I decided to celebrate banned books all month. A week just isn't good enough! elbakerone in Book talk : Another Silly Game to Play -- Continued! (Oct 12, 2007, 10:30pm)

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... Molvania by Santo Cilaruo 822 English Drama: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 823 English Fiction: Animal Farm by George Orwell 833 German Fiction: Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka 974 General history of North America; Northeastern United State ...

I remember Animal Farm having an impact. The pigs sitting around the dining room table just blew me away. I was a young girl and had never thought much about politics, propoganda or corruption. Captains and Kings by Taylor Caldwell painted an even more insidious picture of mankind. I admit ...

(sigh... 103... ) But anyway, Animal Farm. When the glue truck hauls that pathetic, innocent horse away, oh man! Also, A Language Older Than Words, a harrowing philosophical exploration that confronts the reader, very reasonably and honestly, with questions about humanity's treatment ...

#66 & 70 I also Have not read 1984, but I just finished Animal Farm and found it fairly entertaining to be so political. I guess because of the satire. My next few books are not on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list, but are in my TBR pile which is just as big if not bigger. I'm ...

At the moment I'm reading a Nabakov that is not on the 1001 list. It's very odd. But in the next week or so I'll reread Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies for a class that I'm taking, and then George Orwell's 1984, which I've never read. (I feel like I'm the only person who has never read 1 ...

19. When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase (****) 20. The Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon (*****) 21. Animal Farm by george Orwell (****)

Finishing up Animal Farm by George Orwell and starting She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. Been anxious to read this one for a while. Glad to finally get to it.

finishing up The Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon and starting on Animal Farm by George Orwell

... it's 2 books away from being read. I'm currently reading The Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon and then it's onto Animal Farm to knock out another one of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I've heard a lot of good reviews so I'm anxious to find out about it.

... not sure when I'll get to them. Reading The Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon at the moment and then I will tackle Animal Farm.

I'm about halfway through with The Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon and will be starting on Animal Farm by George Orwell after that. Animal Farm is part of the 1001 books I must read before I die list that just so happened to be in my TBR pile. I've only read 17 of those so far and I' ...

... issues I was thinking about when I recommended the Orwell. In this country most have heard of Orwell from 1984 and Animal Farm, but not so much from his travels and essays, criticism, etc. Being from GB you probably got a lot more exposure to him than most Americans. Anyway, I can go ...

... it 18 before the end of the year. Most of my books lined up in my TBR pile are not on this list. Only one that is and it's Animal Farm by George Orwell. This list shouldn't be taken that seriously tho. It's only one person's opinion as to what you SHOULD read before you die. Why oh why ...

#10 judylou: Arthur and George was one of my Top 2 books last year. I hope you can get into it.

but you wouldn't want to live there! The Glass Castle A Doll's House Animal Farm The Deep End of the Ocean The Jungle edited to fix touchstones

... last English teacher had his wits about him and let us actually read the material ourselves! And I do have to say I enjoyed Animal Farm and Death of a Salesman very much, albeit the latter was a play. Still counts at literature, no? Edit: Hopefully this thread will bring as big of a spike ...

Just finished The Animal Farm by George Orwell last night. Today I'm starting Death in the Afternoon by Hemingway. Haven't read anything of his for a while, so hopefully I'll like it.

... is simply fascinating! The first one on my list of “adult” is – The Hobbit. War and Peace 4 is about agriculture. Animal farm, Little Prince, The Calvin and Hobbes tenth anniversary book, War and peace, Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) by Walter Bosing, Origin of Species, Hea ...

... is simply fascinating! The first one on my list of “adult” is – The Hobbit. War and Peace 4 is about agriculture. Animal farm, Little Prince, The Calvin and Hobbes tenth anniversary book, War and peace, Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) by Walter Bosing, Origin of Species, Hea ...

... A Christmas Carol, Around the World in 80 Days, The Picture of Dorain Gray, The Turn of the Screw, Siddhartha, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Candide and the two Alice books. Hope that helps. Looking forward to hearing other people's suggestions.

... to see the huge chick lit tag in my tag cloud, but then I realized that it included such works as Life of Pi and Animal Farm (and, okay, all my old Sweet Valley University books and lots of YA fantasy with female heroines). I'd be interested in hearing how the size of the different ...

... the issue of food, food sourcing, preparation, history, sustainability, etc. This summer I read Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miricle about her family's year of living on locally produced food. I have Michael Pollen's Omnivores Dilemma and intend to reread it. I am also ...

... from the view point of Death. 49. Gulliver's Travels A really good social commentary, a little deeper read than Orwell's Animal Farm but of that ilk. Much of it still holds true today. 50. Good in Bed some of the other reviewers didn't like it, but as a plus size woman in a dating world I ...

... by Elizabeth Lowell Hey, Good Looking by Fern Michaels June 2007 (2) Zanesville by Kris Saknussem Animal Farm by George Orwell July 2007 Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ...

... Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 14. Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey 15. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 16. Animal Farm by George Orwell 17. Night by Elie Wiesel 18. Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones 19. The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones 20. 1984 by G ...

... Potter, and I'm still hooked! I also read a few of those classics that they adapt for children, like What Katy Did and Rebbeca of Sunnybrook Farm. I didn't really like them, though.

... for TRANSMET, I had to work very hard at not either bursting into tears or tackling him. #33 drsol - That's very true. Animal Farm, anyone? I can't watch movies with animal violence. Yet I can handle the most horrific, depraved twisted violence towards human beings. Hm.

Some of those are pretty funny. If I want a book on "Domestic animals," I'll certainly get a copy of Animal Farm.

... preachy sections seem to go by faster in audio than trying to read it. I listened to a very well-read version of Animal Farm (narrated by Richard Brown) that was good.... And at the other end of the spectrum, listening to Thank you, Jeeves read by Jonathan Cecil was a fun ...

30. Animal Farm by George Orwell - Short but quite interesting. Must read classic and all. 31. Bone: Eyes of the Storm by Jeff Smith Love Bone. Better than Y or Fables? Possibly

... Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov, Apr 21, 2007 15. Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov, May 13, 2007 16. Animal Farm by George Orwell, May 17, 2007 17. The Mysterious Planet by Lester del Rey, May 26, 2007 Well, I'm going to try. But I doubt I'll make it with ...

The Body Farm by Cornwell Animal Farm by Orwell Farmer Boy by Wilder Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes Wild Geese Flying by Meigs

... Rand for Atlas Shrugged and George Orwell for Nineteen Eighty Four and If this is a man by Primo Levi and Animal Farm for making me think about political and social values - although I was reprimanded by my University friends for daring to read Ayn Rand in front of them and ...

... to anything. But I did enjoy the bits and pieces I managed to partially hear. As for actual reading, read Orwell's Animal Farm yesterday for an essay in English I have to write. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will hopefully finish up Lolita soon:P

I've tossed Animal Farm and Catch-22, although I'm planning on going back to Catch-22. I'm currently reading Starship Troopers, and I'm honestly not sure whether or not I'm going to continue it. I knew it was going to be different from the movie when I first started reading it, but it just ...

... about the books I was made to read for junior high school and high school literature classes. I didn't like ANY of them! Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, Crime and Punishment...BLAH! I have never read Dickens unless he was assigned to me in school because what I had to ...

... by Isabel Allende - her 3 Eva Luna books. Being a George Orwell fan, it's always bothered me that people never get past Animal Farm or 1984. Burmese Days and Down and Out in Paris and London are much better, if less sensational.

... a little library to lend to them. The idea is to kick-start their intellects. Ages are 11-17. So far I've got: Animal Farm by George Orwell As I walked out one midsummer morning by Laurie Lee Holes by Louis Sachar What else? What worked for you? Thanks

I just received Kingsolver's new book Animal, Vegetable, Miricale about her family's year long adventure using only local food sources. Have any of you read this yet? I just started it - the same week that my first delivery from my local Green Thumb CSA arrived. Green onions, sorrel, kale, ...

... from pig to man, and from man to pig, and pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." Animal Farm "And he, he himself, The Grinch, Carved the roast beast." How the Grinch Stole Christmas Edited to fill the the "Grinch" blanks. I do this as a ...

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... anything King has written. If you enjoy it, you might like other classics of the dystopian genre: George Orwell - Animal Farm, 1984 Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Yevgeney Zamyatin - We Philip Roth - The Plot Against America Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen ...

... Henry James 21. The Ambassadors by Henry James SECOND INSTALMENT 17.4.07 22. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox For 23. Animal Farm by George Orwell 24. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreisler 25. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh 26. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 27. Howard's End ...

... near unreadable. (Just for context, I read FAULKNER for fun.) I place it in a category that includes Brave New World, Animal Farm and 1984, none of which I will ever touch again. There's a heavy-handedness to their social commentary that just doesn't work for me on an artistic level. Yo ...

... by George Orwell. This is my first time reading it and already I can begin to appreciate why it endures more than Animal Farm. After that (I don't think it will take me long), I think I'll read Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir, despite its lukewarm reviews.

#81: Not sure if you were joking, but I don't think I'd count Animal Farm as a "big" book. My copy is 95 pages.

... Adams 22. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams 23. The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams 24. Animal Farm by George Orwell 25. It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

... always gives Animal Farm until I click on the Go button.

... that society does should be a much greater reason for a book to be banned. I also think its ludicrous to ban a book like Animal Farm because of anthropomorphic talking animals. Do we as a society honestly think that kids aren't smart enough to understand that its a peice of fiction and ...

The first books that come to mind are Of Mice and Men, Animal Farm, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, and The Bluest Eye. Penelope Fitzgerald packs a lot into a short space. For short and thought-provoking, you can't beat dramas. For more modern plays, try Tom Stoppard, ...

And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave Animal Farm by George Orwell The Bad Child's Book of Beasts by Hillaire Belloc Banquets of the Black Widow by Isaac Asimov The Choking Doberman : And Other 'New' Urban Legends by Jan H. Brunvand A Feast for Crows by George ...

All the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy Animal farm by George Orwell The aye-aye and I by Gerald Durrell Bear man of Admiralty Island by John R. Howe Cat and mouse by Gunter Grass The cat inside by William S. Burroughs Dog years by Gunter Grass Heart of a dog by Mikhail ...

... my ancient copies are not in yet. Still to be entered : i.a. Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Hobbit, Brave new world and Animal Farm, and some dozens of books by Goethe (in German), as well as, hmm, thousands of, hmm, more obscure books--with some (heavy) stress on i.a. Timzputz in Children's Fiction : recommend a title in juvenile fiction (Dec 17, 2006, 1:19am)

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I tried to get through Animal Farm earlier today. Gave up after the first two chapters, just couldn't get into it. I really like 1984, so I thought I'd give this a shot, but it was just tedious, and I've got about 50 other books on my TBR list, so I axed it.

Animal Farm was another school-book, along with Macbeth - but then I guess those two are probably quite common on the cirriculum? Oh, Dorian Gray and Sons and Lovers, they were required reading during the summer before I started English at college, there were a few others, but honestly. ...

A lot of what I read has already been mentioned. I also read The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Huckleberry Finn by Twain and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.

... interests. There can be a big difference between 6th & 8th grade! Of Mice and Men is fairly standard, even now. So is Animal Farm, War of the Worlds, and Lord of the Flies. If he likes sci-fi I'd recommend Enders Game. Nancy Farmer's The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm and House ...

... Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling Life of Pi - Yann Martel Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell Catch-22 - Joseph Heller The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien The Curious Incident ...

... and anything by Judy Blume, Celia Rees or S.E. Hinton, but also try Catcher In The Rye, definitely Animal Farm and The Handmaid's Tale. I'm quite envious actually of all the good reading you've got ahead of you :)

I'm with you on all points, WH. Animal Farm is fascinating because you actually witness the deterioration of the societal structure, like the proverbial train-wreck you can't stop watching. I also liked BNW (a little) better than 1984. Island, though an interesting portrait with some valid ...

... dispose of the last vestiges of Christianity that clung to the far corners of my mind. (Bye, J.C.!) George Orwell's Animal Farm firmly convinced me that humans were inherently evil and that there was no hope (Nihilist faze) The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins brought what I ...

... 1. Walden—for sure, though I’d bring my Portable Thoreau which includes Walden and many others. 2. Orwell’s Animal Farm, it’s small and easy to carry, and I don’t think I could get tired of it. 3. Hunter S. Thompson’s The Rum Diary, for the same reasons. 4. A Mencke ...

... than Gravity's Rainbow and Tom Jones. And nowhere near as high as Pride and Prejudice, The Scarlet Letter, and Animal Farm. I'm definitely seeing a pattern but right now the sample sizes are just way too small to make definite comparisons between individual titles... I'm not ...

Just to cloud the issue more-- I see Animal Farm as an allegory as much as anything, and this makes it a bit different from other dystopians. Each animal group represents a different human social class or type. (I like how the cats are the fence-sitters who vote for both sides.) To the ...

... get around to cataloguing). But what are the "must-haves" for the distopian novel collector? Brave New World, Animal Farm and 1984 are the no-brainers. Ditto Fahrenheit 451 and Lord of the Flies. I've also got Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, and need to add A Can ...

... which I had already read). In terms of fiction that made me think, I recommend Walden Two by B. F. Skinner, Animal Farm by George Orwell, the beginning of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (I didn't care so much for the later parts), Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe ...

... my all-time favorite writers, but it irks me that he is known primarily for his two worst books: Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. These were first inflicted on most of us in school by bandwagon-jumping teachers. I had to read Animal Farm in the 8th grade, then again in the 10th. ...

... at our own world. Science fiction and fantasy are ALLEGORY. Just like Borges' "The Library of Babel," just like Animal Farm, good sf & f teaches not through literalism but through allegory.

... temporarily transported into another (fictional) world. On the other hand, one does not read the definitely allegorical Animal Farm in order escape into a story involving cute farm animals, but rather to learn about how political revolutions often go wrong. (Or at least to get Orwell’s ...

1984 and Animal Farm are both great classics! I love them!

... That's a pretty good idea. I just sorted my books that way and it looks like 1984 has to be my next read, followed by Animal Farm and The time traveler's wife. I have read 1984 about half-way through years ago, but I guess I'll have to start over. After I've finished my current reads ...