Animal Farm.

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2003-08-03 03:20am

Anybody ever read this? I read it when I was 12 and loved it, but I was never able to get into 1984, so thinking about AF now makes me want to give 1984 a try now that I'm older.

One thing I've noticed is the complaints aobut how there was a happy ending tacked on to both movie version. The 50s cartoon, I cna understand the complaints. But the one in 1999 you' d expect a change like that. The Soviet Union had been dead and buried for years, and with the book ending with no indication that Napoleon's regime would be falling anytime soon (and since the whole story is an allegory for the fall of the czars and the rise of communism in Russia), one would expect that an adaptation made in this day and age would include an an ending where Animal Farm falls apart.

Though the story itself is a fable, this is a thread designed to talk about what the eventual fate of the Manor Farm in the book might have been, and of your thoughts of the book itself.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-08-03 04:22am

I read it a few years ago. Go commies! w00t

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-08-03 04:42am

Damn no edit. Anyways, my recollection of the book is poor, as I said I read it a few years ago and it was required reading for class which we all sat in circles and read aloud to each other. I hate that. I did like the book though. I think it helps stress that Lenin was not so bad as people make him out to be.

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-08-03 04:40pm

Really good book, I'm going to buy it at barnes & Noble soon, NAPOLEON IS EVIL!!!

I agree with the TNT movie's new ending, its approiate(spelling) and shows that their is a hard path to follow but it comes with hope.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-08-03 06:42pm

There was a tacked on ending to the film
also:
There was a second film?

I remember the real fil;m ending with the pigs turning into men... FTB.

Oh well, must go see if its on DVD now.

But the book is fantastic (I'm a die hard Orwell fan, feel free to ignore my opinion)

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-08-04 07:46am

I read it once - but that was years ago and I barely remember it...

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-08-08 12:33am

I have both Animal Farm and 1984. I believe both are definite keepers.

They, along with numerous others, reside on a shelf I keep reserved for books that a reader "devours quickly, ponders slowly, and forgets not at all."