Animal Farm
A short novel I read on the train from London to Salisbury which charts the cynical corruption of political revolutions in the early half of the 20th Century and predicts the same for social revolutions of the latter half of the 20th Century. The story is told in a believable and sentimental way. Odd that Orwell railed against vegetarians yet puts this most classic of novels in a context where any killing of animals is seen as the worst of crimes. And when this does happen he's so sentimental about it. Maybe he just hated the types of people who were veggie back in the war time years rather than the concept. Whatever, it's a great read and whilst it can be read as a warning there's little to inform as to the alternative outcome. Maybe Orwell thought that there was no alternative.
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