rating: 5/5
a horror story disguised as a children's fable. read the whole thing in three hours, glued to the screen of my laptop, and had my head in my hands by the end because ohmygod— THEY NEVER LEARN. this book is so telling of the state of our current world and it was written EIGHTY YEARS AGO. george orwell you would hate living in this point in time. i had such a long discussion with my history professor over this book. this genuinely should be mandatory reading in academia to teach kids about fascism. one of the best books i've ever read. the allegories were just... wow. even on a craft level, it's so wonderfully written and chock-full of symbolism. i admire it so much. maybe those fuckass americans banned this novel coz they knew that if the youth of today read this they would gain consciousness lmao.
