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E. Jane burns and Peggy McCracken
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Simon C. Estok, Jonathan White and I-Chun Wang
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Gary Taylor and David Carnegie
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Ali Smith, twice shortlisted for both the Man Booker and the Orange Prizes, is back with the...
Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories
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Forever Rumpole - a hilarious new selection of the very best Rumpole stories by John Mortimer Horace...
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Becs (244 KP) rated Animal Farm in Books
Oct 2, 2019
Genre: Classic, Fantasy, Fiction, Science-Fiction, Literature, Dystopia
Audience: High School
Reading level: Advanced Fluent
Interests: Classics, Dystopia, Science-Fiction
Style: Advanced Fluent
Point of view: Third Person
Difficulty reading: It was only difficult in the spots that were lacking plot.
Promise: Promise of history related read, it delivers
Quality: Good.
Insights: Animal Farm is a very well-written book and if you like a history-related book along with any literary classic books, you’ll love this book! I, myself, have never really been a huge history buff so to me Animal Farm was lacking an interesting plot. If I broke the book down into two sections, there would be half of the book as interesting and half being monotonous.
Ah-Ha Moment: When the animals overtook the farm and the pigs started to act like the humans.
Favorite quote: “Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.” – I really like this because it’s a great representation of humans and earth. How we lack with caring for the planet we live on and that isn’t right.
Aesthetics: The copy that I received had an awesome cartoony cover of the animals which I found quite adorable.
“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
Cane
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Originally published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane remains an innovative literary work-part drama,...