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Animal Farm

Written by: George Orwell
Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
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Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in the UK in 1945. It is the tale of farm animals that rebel against the farmer, intending to establish a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. With stirring slogans, they set out to create utopia. However, the rebellion is betrayed and the farm ends up in a state worse than it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon. 

This is the setting for one of the most revealing satiric fables of all time - an acerbic tale for adults that records the process from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism which is even worse. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was its target. Today it is quite clear that wherever and whenever freedom is suppressed, the message of George Orwell’s masterpiece is still relevant. Time Magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It also features at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels.

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wonderful!

great book, very telling about our current times.
I hope more people read it to recognize warning signs of that's going on the the world right now

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Outstanding Allegory - Poor Performance

This is an interesting story about a working farm that rebels from control by humans and deteriorates into infighting, hypocrisy, authoritarianism, and violence. Orwell uses a story about an English farm as a model for this brilliant treatment of his interpretation of what happened after the Russian Revolution - complete with characters representing Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin. The writing is brilliant and the imagery startling. The narrative is engrossing and thought-provoking. Adriel Brandt has a monotonous style of reading, unfortunately. He relates the story clearly - good enunciation - but the performance has little else going for it. It's disappointing to hear this fascinating satire delivered with zero emotion.

Despite a poor performance, this recording of a rightfully celebrated allegorical tale is worth 8 out of 10 stars.

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Not the best, but good read

The book feels like it's the summary for another book. the story is good, it could have had more drama and events to it. but it doesn't. it is laid out as one simple sentence after another: X did that. Y did this. Z said that. etc... so it doesn't conduct feelings to the reader (listener). this did not help the narrator at all. so he sounded most of the time like a text to speech programs, monotonic, doesn't grab your attention.
So may be it will be a lot better as an actual read, not as audio.

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A metaphor for life

Hard to believe that a book written long ago could manage to so accurately portray our corrupt and vile western leaders. Definitely worth a listen /read if you can stomach a story that reveals everything wrong with society and our government.

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Grim

Grim story of corruption, deceit and a dystopian rewriting of history.

That said the story itself was simple and full of gullible characters, the only sad thing is you have to wonder if humanity today is any more intelligent or better at remembering history than the horses.

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Very Relatable

I lived in Iraq during the socialist party & Saddam Hussein's era before 2003. It is really interesting how a revolution aiming to free a country from a slavery under an occupation only to be replaced by another form of slavery that's dictatorship. In the early 20th century, Iraq was under the Ottoman Empire control followed by the British occupation. People wanted independence & managed to achieve it. However, Iraq became free only to have the socialist party to take control. During their rule, we were always reminded that we are free & enjoying more prosperity than we were under any foreign occupation. People affiliated to the socialist party were treated as first class citizens & had all the privileges. After the war in 2003, Iraq experienced another big shift. Yet the newer islamic parties that took control used the same tactics of control over the people & always reminding us that we are better now than we were under the socialists. 100-200 years of conflict & systems overthrowing previous ones only to adopt their ideologies. The dictators' valuable weapon is ignorance & feeding into the fear of the inevitable chaos if they weren't in power. What makes a difference in breaking the cycle is to invest in education. Education really changes the world.

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Don't say no one warned you.

it is remarkable that this book was published in 1945.
Our boards of education would be wise that this book is included as part of the curriculum along with others.
it would serve the generations to come well.

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Good, not great

The book is one very obvious metaphor, easy to understand and follow. It does kind of feel like the idea for a story that never got fleshed out into a full length novel; all the same it’s story telling is effective. I was always under the impression that this book was a bit of a manifesto calling for social uprise. Instead it comes off as more of a warning of the inevitable corruptibility of the individual and blindly following those with power. Ultimately cynical and leaves you feeling like the main message is ‘don’t even try, it will always turn out the same’.

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What was written 78 years ago holds true today

Amazing narration, such an easy story to follow about Stalinist Russian seeing through the veil it created for itself back in 1945. Also comparables of communism to capitalism, and that it is very much more elites and non elites in all societies….

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Great book

This should be mandatory in all schools. This is a brilliant way to tell the age old story of how poeer corrupts all.

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  • 2020-12-19

truly important

an amazingly comedic view of a true atrocity, allowing the full circle of tragedy plus time. without diluting the morbidity of which it discusses.

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  • 2020-08-20

Great book. Boring narration.

Great book. Boring narration. But this is the only version that works with whispersync.