If there has to be a book that enlightens, entertains and keeps you riveted to the end that too in a matter of 100 mins and 120 pages...it has to be this book by George Orwell...
The best example to cite for "Short and sweet"...the same can be said of "Love Story" and "Alchemist" too...but this one has to rank number one jointly with The Alchemist...
People who know what it is to be in a work environ, this is one book that you can relate to, in every page and every little detail. Ofcourse, for the fresher too, it will go down as a very informative and will teach the keen reader some things to be wary of in the workplace...
What Power can do, and what egos do to an organization, and how the managers manipulate the workers, the power the voluble talker commands in any organization, and the naivette of the lower middle class....All these are brilliantly depicted in a fable par excellence...
"All animals are equal but some are more equal then others" - though this has been oft repeated...the truest truism of all....
How every noble cause is vulnerable to manipulation and how important regulation is and how dangerous over regulation is, the plus and minus of democracy, the leadership styles of managers, why a workhorse is called a WORK HORSE..Great for readers who like to go the inferential route after reading books..I would defly want to read it again and extract more gyaan...
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need to read Animal Farm...only remember the overall sketch of the story....
but J, i always like to take something back from either watching movies and reading books. And the gyaan u seem to have derived out of this book now, is just an aspect of the book, the aspect u see according to the state of mind you are in!
i guess this reason plays a major role in what u get from a piece of creation, and exactly why u see a movie or read a book differently even if u'r doin it for the nth time! mebbe u read this book later...very much later, like to u'r kids...u might see the aspect where it appeals to kids so much! see my point?! watsay?!
Ennamo podaa...
Me into music these days.. writin lyrics and tuning them are wat keep me goin... fountainhead is still only 5 pages old for me....
Makki does have a valid point here no doubt... something very much re-inforced by me jus finishing Da-Vinci Code..... had I read this during my Sheldon reading days, namely 11th and 12th Std, my outlook woul'd ve been totally different. The history and the religion buff that I have become lately, really has made me view it from a totally different light... and I loved the book for it.... Infact so much have I changed as a reader that the "suspense" in the book, failed to enthrall me as much as the "other details" provided in the book...wanted to devote a post to Da Vinci.... dunno ..let's see...
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