Animal Farm

I've finally read the much touted about Animal Farm.After hearing about this book a couple of years ago from my godbrother,it has always been in the back of my mind to look for the book whenever I'm in bookstores.No luck until finding it while I was in Penang yesterday in the Popular branch in Gurney Plaza.And wat the heck it's exorbitantly overpriced at over RM40 for a book which has less than a hundred pages..plain robbery!Nway I'm determined to find it online after that and yeah I'm glad I've found it free to read online.Here's the link http://www.readprint.com/work-1250/George-Orwell


I must say its this short novel by George Orwell is a really good work.Its some sort of a satirical allegory of things to do with the Soviet Union.Before,I know next to nothing bout communism except what we learn about in the Sejarah textbooks and the stuff we are exposed to in popular media.The book really highlights the issues,struggles and problems within communism itself.What seems to be a noble ideology in the beginning which is shared by everyone in society in the beginning is manipulated and twisted later by dirty,corrupted,self-serving individuals.It really made me feel kinda sad and I found myself getting angrier with some of its characters as I read on.And no there's no happy ending for this story as you all know..