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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 14, 2023, 01:21:52 pm ---Nor I. Was never required, and never chose, to read either.
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To me, what I know of Animal Farm doesn't make it really sound like something you'd read for fun.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 14, 2023, 02:26:47 pm ---I liked the rat and giant squid articles. The homing pigeon article bored me.
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And don't forget the sperm whale article! It's more upbeat than some of Kolbert's recent ones so you should give it a try. She describes the birth of a baby sperm whale!
Jeff Wrangler:
I've barely gotten into "You've Been Served" (Sept. 11), and already I highly recommend it.
The author and the subject attorney name names.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 14, 2023, 02:28:28 pm ---To me, what I know of Animal Farm doesn't make it really sound like something you'd read for fun.
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Why not? I mean, I only vaguely know the premise but as I understand it, the characters are all farm animals and it's a political allegory. Neither of those in and of itself seems a deal-breaker; after all I liked Charlotte's Web and The Handmaid's Tale (the latter of which probably isn't quite an allegory per se, but it's the only book that I've read that came to mind in the moment; maybe also A Clockwork Orange?).
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 15, 2023, 01:25:50 pm ---Why not? I mean, I only vaguely know the premise but as I understand it, the characters are all farm animals and it's a political allegory. Neither of those in and of itself seems a deal-breaker.
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That's it for me. I'm not interested in reading a political allegory for fun. Maybe it would be different if I didn't know it was a political allegory, but that bell was rung a long time ago.
Never read Charlotte's Web, either. Never even heard of it until I wasn't a kid anymore.
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