Animal Farm, by George Orwell

I read this book in high school when I didn't know it was an allegory for Soviet Russia.  This time around, it was interesting to look up the parallels to the Soviet revolution.

The book was a quick read but not as good as I remembered. The style is very narrator-centered and reads more like a newspaper story at times than a novel. Animal Farm was most powerful when I remembered that the farm animals represented real people and personality types in Soviet Russia.