"Well, Animal Farm is a book that we were made to read in junior high school; but I like Orwell a lot, and I went back to it and read it again last year. Just for - the nature of the stories he tells are very powerful.
Animal Farm is an allegory for greed that's present in human society and the way it determines relationships, human relationships. It's about talking animals; so for a young person, for a kid, there is a parallel to Walt Disney I suppose, except it's obviously a lot more serious. Reading it as an adult, you don't notice the nature of the allegory so much. You're not so struck by the fact that these are talking animals because the rest of it is so recognizable. As an adult, as someone who's been out in the working world, you realize that in actuality we are all barnyard animals working for a bunch of greedy pigs. And so it's very telling.
I think all of Orwell's books are a sort of dark prediction of the future or a dark assessment of the present. I think people who are critical thinkers, people that want something that's fairly challenging - I mean, it's not the language that's challenging - but certainly thematically, this is not fluff. The cute animals are kind of misleading. It's thought-provoking. I'm tempted to give five stars to Animal Farm. It's a good one."
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