We got almost to Boxer's murder in Animal Farm and haven't been able to read further yet
is this book good, or is it shit? shitty people love it, and that's not a great sign

plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.
host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)
chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)
other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)
We got almost to Boxer's murder in Animal Farm and haven't been able to read further yet
is this book good, or is it shit? shitty people love it, and that's not a great sign
I read it way back in high school and it honestly read as like The Hobbit to Orwell's LotR. The slightly less serious prequel to 1984.
(Though nowadays I wonder how much of that is just, well, Orwell being Orwell. He had some distinct takes)
days later, the book remains open on my phone and we still haven't moved past this point. Boxer dying is the worst thing in the world
I think the overall problem with Animal Farm is much the same as the Chronicles of Narnia: too much allegory. there's too many specific references to the Russian Revolution (like Snowball educating himself on military strategy, which is roughly like Trotsky's military leadership of the USSR in the civil wars that followed the Revolution) and that's enabled Animal Farm to be interpreted as straightforward anticommunist propaganda. but also...I dunno, it's such a cynical work, but then so is 1984. he presents dystopia as though it were an inevitable endpoint.
all i remember about the book is the time in middle school when the english teacher split up the class into our favorite genres, and then assigned our group, the science-fiction group, animal farm