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“ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS...you need to read this book even for this sentence.” read more

Books read in 2010 (28 books items)

"Eläinten vallankumous on parhaita satiireja ikinä (vain Kellopeliappelsiinin elokuvaversio on parempi). George Orwell tekee nerokkaasti ja suorasti pilkkaa kommunistisesta yhteiskuntajärjestelmästä eläinten avulla. Kirja muistuttaa paikoin lastensatua, mutta sitä se ei ole. Lopulta eläinten yhteiskunta, jonka eteen uurastettiin, on muuttunut siksi millaiseksi se oli ennen vallankumousta, ja sika muuttunut uudeksi ihmiseksi. Eläinten vallankumous on kaiken kaikkiaan nerokkaan hieno satii"

Reading List (19 books items)

"If I liked 1984, I'd probably read this next. "

Time's 100 Best English Novels (100 books items)

"No writer has ever been more naked in his contempt for power, or more ruthless in his critique of those who abuse it, than the Englishman born Eric Blair, better known to the world as George Orwell. In Animal Farm he restages the hypocrisies of the Russian Revolution with the principal figures played by, of all things, farm animals. By presenting atrocities in the terms of a fairy tale, he makes them fresh, restoring to readers numbed by the 20th century's parade of disasters a sense of shock an"

Banned, Burned, Censored (94 books items)

"Publication delayed in UK because of anti-Stalin theme. Confiscated in Germany by Allied troops. Banned in Malaysia for religious reasons."