I read it at the start of high school on my own and loved it. Take that however you please.

>>8091241

George was a better essay writer than he was a storyteller and his novels even read better if you treat them as essays and not stories.

>>8091241
Read it last week. I thought it was pretty good.

>>8091241
No, not really. Just like all of Orwell's fiction, it suffers from poor writing and hamfisted messages. Read his nonfiction if you are looking for something of worth.

>>8091265
>>8091271
Speaking of essays, what are some of the essential essays to read by Orwell? I've read about ten of his. Off the top of my head
>Why I write
>Politics and the English Language
>The Lion and the Unicorn
>A Hanging
>Shooting an Elephant
>A Nice Cup of Tea
And a few others.
I've got Down the Mine on the list

It has a message, so lit fucking hates that, it's not deep with prose, that pisses them off too.

But objectively it's just an average book with a new idea for the time.

Despite being a bit preachy and somewhat pretentious, Animal Farm has an engaging enough story with well defined, slightly satirical characters and only takes a couple of hours to finish. It's enough to warrant a read.

It's a pretty good short story bit of history built into it. Entertainment