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better to read animal farm, much more appropriate, defines the left to a tee (not that tee)
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Yesss it's very good and interesting but been 2 years since I've read it! Definitely crazy to relate to in the world around us.
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I haven’t read animal farm yet but intend to 4 sure!
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#StayWoke
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That’s y u r retarded fubtard kus u don’t read lmao
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Ashley, as you read Animal Farm realize that it was published in '45.
The western view of Russia was not as it became just a few years later.
But I swear, as I read it I was imagining '50-'60s Stalinistic characters.
Ahead of its time.
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It's an endless bag.
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remember, all animals are created equal, some more equal.......
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The Gulag Archipelago is one of the best books I've read and highly recommend to anyone wanting to know about what the Soviet Union did to any citizen who criticized it.
Ummm....
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1984 was great, but I actually think that Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is much more reminiscent of where we are today. Definitely recommend it. It's not as "surface level" dystopian as Orwell's work, but it's scarier while being more subtle.
This is what was said about Orwell and Huxley's different premonitions:
"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance."
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Also recommend:
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
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Soma Holiday!
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Hey Ashley!!
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Orwell's 1984 is a description of human civilization's past, present, and future. You were born in it, are living in it now, and you will die in it.
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Since it's tax time, try Vultures in Eagles Clothing 
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Thanks guys for all the new literature to delve in to I’m excited!!
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💋Hey mamas @Heavenly-Nichole
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I read Mad Magazine.... It keeps me pretty up to date.
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I think ...
1984 is more like the extreme Right.
Animal Farm is more like the extreme Left.
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Ashley.. you are so right about 1984 fitting this time so well as does Brave New World, Animal Farm seems more before Berlin Wall came down.
farenheit 451 is coming since this admn wants to gut dept of education by 20% who needs books if you cant read just like our "LEADER" or better yet when you have "alternative facts"
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Was in high school in 1984, and it was required reading. Go figure.
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think i got animal farm on the computer version of kindle for a buck
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