Carlos's Reviews > Animal farm

What a book! It is kind of confusing to read a story about animals who speak and stuff. Many people say that you need to know about the Russian Revolution to be able to read this, but NOPE! This book is full of symbols, clues, methaphors. How can you notice them? Well, just read the story! Why did Orwell choose a pig as a main character, and not a... let's say, butterfly? Or a pigeon? Or a cute dog? Or a rat?
About the story, despite the characters are animals, they behave like humans, they even dress like humans. While you read it, it gets worse and worse not in sense of quality, of course, but in sense of sadness.
Recommended? Absolutely! The book is kind of heavy though, so you might not understand it at the very beginning, but once you get into it and you associate some history to the book, everything fits!