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Least favorite book?
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Had to read Animal Farm for school. Haven't read it since then, so this could be a now incorrect edgy high school opinion, but I felt that its allegory was so obvious and direct that it had no need to be written and was a waste of time to read when we could've just directly discussed communism instead.
I think what is important about Animal Farm is that it's simple and direct enough to allow discussion of the political system of all out communism. The discussion is what's important.
Wouldn't surprise me if that's lost when it's placed on a school curriculum though.
I can definitely go for that. I think the book in its own right is important for that, and is a great overview of that topic, and wouldve been a lot more impactful if I naturally found it, read it, discussed it with others.
Instead I got the whole overview of what it was trying to do first, had already discussed everything it covers in school, and then they made us read it and it resulted in my experience of "why am I reading this, we sort of went over this in three different ways already"
i recommend reading 1984 to get a more refined look at the author's views. A lot of people read animal farm first and think the premise purely amounts to 'communism bad' and stop there. Whereas i suspect most people that started with 1984 eventually still read animal farm and come away with a more nuanced take for both.