I'll be the dissenter here. I liked both 1984 and Animal Farm. Remember, George Orwell was writing from the standpoint of a guy who'd lived through Stalin's time, who had seen the Spanish Civil War go bad, and all that, and I still think his story of Winston Smith and Big Brother is one helluva tale.
You might try Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury if you want a better-written sort of dystopia. But if you want a story of animals working together to improve things on a farm and getting into some hairy adventures, try the Freddy the Pig books, which I doted on in my childhood. They're pretty darned good, even if they are in the children's section.
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Date: 2002-07-04 10:51 pm (UTC)You might try Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury if you want a better-written sort of dystopia. But if you want a story of animals working together to improve things on a farm and getting into some hairy adventures, try the Freddy the Pig books, which I doted on in my childhood. They're pretty darned good, even if they are in the children's section.