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- Todd ZywickiInterview
What a great question! My daughter is 12 years old and has been a voracious reader since she was little (I wonder where she got that from?). For me, the one that impacted me the most was reading Animal Farm by George Orwell in 9th grade. The concept of the book is brilliant, of course, but it also opens a new…
- Annie DukeInterview
I’ve been answering this quite a bit lately, and giving the same answer because it happens to be a very long book, and I’m giving it an especially close read. It’s Behave by Robert Sapolsky. It originally showed up on Amazon as a book bought by people buying my book, Thinking in Bets, so thanks Amazon algorithm. It…
- Richard KochInterview
I can get excited by either. Ideas absolutely fascinate me. Books that are fiction but write about ideas too are either dreadful or double-heaven. In the latter category, I put Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, much of Enid Blyton, 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell, the novels of Iris Murdoch, and perhaps perversely…
- Albert JackInterview
At 16, I suppose it would be Animal Farm by George Orwell. There is a lot to learn about life in there including why some people do the things they do, how they get away with it and how to think for yourself. If we just trust the media, whose story changes at will, we will always be lied to. I actually can’t believe…
- Dick PassinghamInterview
Animal Farm by George Orwell. It shows how easily the goodies turn into baddies. Beware political power.
- Brendan FernandesInterview
This is so hard! But Animal Farm by George Orwell has always resonated with me from high school to today. It is social and political and reflects on how we live within hegemony through the metaphorical story of “animals” in a farm.
- A Brief History of George OrwellArticle
If you are new to George Orwell’s work, I would recommend starting with either Animal Farm or 1984. These are his two most famous and widely-read novels, and they provide a good introduction to Orwell’s political views and his writing style. Animal Farm is a satirical novel that tells the story of a group of farm…
- Gary MehiganInterview
I think of lots of sci-fi books, like Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell, books by Isaac Asimov and Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
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