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你以為在為自己努力，
其實只是在為高層服務而已。
你或許讀過《動物農莊》，
但絕對沒讀過迫於情勢遭到刪除的作者序，
台灣唯一正式授權中譯版，首度收錄，獨家披露。
聰明的豬隻拿破崙，以崇高的理想為號召，推翻了人類主子，所有動物深以為從此可以自己做主，不再有蹂躪壓榨、弱肉強食、勾心鬥角。不料，初嚐權力滋味的拿破崙開始整肅異己，趕盡殺絕，一心鞏固領導地位，維護尊榮享受。能言善道的尖叫者幫著拿破崙粉飾太平，勤懇老實的拳擊手不疑有他，只知犧牲奉獻，甚至賠上性命在所不惜。
在雪球與拿破崙身上，你將看到一個國家、社會乃至企業組織，如何上演赤裸齷齪的權力爭奪戰。
在尖叫者身上，你將看到狗腿大王如何攀龍附鳳。
而在拳擊手身上，你將看到自己的一切努力如何地枉然與徒勞！
當今穩坐經典地位的《動物農莊》，出版當時卻再三遭到退稿。在威權人士與主流媒體滴水不漏的操作下，一代文豪歐威爾無視於輿論壓力，大無畏地戳破人們昧於「對國家忠誠」、「對威權迫害視若無睹」的重重精巧謊言，為滔滔濁世敲響一記警鐘——
覺悟吧！別再讓你我自甘淪為權力遊戲底下的一顆棋子，別再隨波逐流！
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While Animal Farm acts primarily as a satirical piece on the Russian Revolution, much of its messaging still echoes loudly in today's world riddled with misinformation and extremists in modern politics peddling false promises.The first book of Orwell's that I've read, this book manages to pack so much power into those themes in less than a hundred pages, showing how power and corruption creeps into societies. An excellent read still today!
very on the nose, but necessarily so due to its terrifying relevance
I somehow managed to miss reading this in school and in all the years since, so I picked it up as an audiobook so I didn't feel so disconnected from the entire world, which does seem to have read it. I did enjoy it, but in the same sort of way you "enjoy" a thriller you know is going to end badly. I could see most of the steps coming as they came (some of this might be due to having read 1984 in school, so I am familiar with Orwell, even if not with this particular novella), and it left me with the kind of terror you only get looking on at something that is going to end terribly and not being able to stop it. As we got closer and closer to the end, it started becoming the sort of runaway train that could only really end one way, and watching the poor animals on their way to this ending was distressing. I liked most of the characters, or at least felt deeply for them in this situation that was rapidly spiraling out of their control because of their own lack of education and understanding. It was horrifying to see them acquiescing to things I could tell were going to lead to disaster, to see them falling for each and every trick played on their minds and their hope, and to know that there was nothing they could do. What makes it worse is the idea that, for all this is clearly a fantasy-type novella, it felt real. This sort of things has happened, and for many of the same reasons. You create an outside enemy, you control the situation, you act like you are friends with those under your command, and things always seem to end badly. It is absolutely worth a read if you, like me, managed to somehow miss it. It will leave you feeling a bit paranoid and a bit horrified, but all the best dystopians do, and this certainly belongs to that class.