Animal Farm was amazing; it made me feel great to be so engaged in a text. The history behind the text was great; subtle communist undertones with images of Stalin and Trotsky fighting for power of the farm. The evolution of the text from a utopian society to a totalitarian dictatorship was incredibly well described and well written. It was really nice that Mike read it too; I enjoyed being able to discuss literature with him. It's nice that we can broaden our relationship and have more and more in common every day.
Brave New World was a good read too; not necessarily as interesting as Animal Farm but still provided an Orwell-like look at society. It kind of reminded me of 1984 in that a group of elites have altered society in order to create what they think is a "utopian" society. Somewhat predictably, those deemed "individuals" are forced to leave the utopian society and ultimately the "savage" man from the old world cannot acclimate himself to the new world. While the end of the book was great, the middle was still somewhat slow...
Anyways, today after I finished Brave New World, I started Reading Lolita in Tehran. So far it's great. It's a woman's memoir about reading literature with a select group of women in Iran. Lolita is the novel being focused on right now and the author describes it so passionately that I want to read it! So I guess that will be next on my list...
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