Review: Animal Farm for the modern world
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2012
A short, quick read that is technically about the difficulties that face a group of bugs living in a tree, but is really a thinly veiled satire of our current political system. The story follows a young bug who has been prepped all his life to be a politician. As his father nears retirement, he has to learn what it REALLY means to be a politician and how to cope with some interesting revelations about the political process and the rival political party. The allegories are not complex or difficult to understand and are often hilarious (as an academic, I particularly love the characterization of the professors at Flooderversity). In essence, it's sort of an Animal Farm for the modern world.