More of 3.5 stars.
This was my first Bukowski and I certainly enjoyed this collection of cats poems.
Full review to come soon.

More of 3.5 stars
Full review to come soon!

Will write a full review soon, but just in short, it was amazing. What a wonderful book!

19th July, 2020: Let’s do this!!

My rating: 4.5/5 magical stars!!

Well, well, well.. what should I say. It was fantastic, wonderful, amazing and adventurous. This review is a mix for both the movie and the book (because I can't even separate them, Duh!). It was just awesome, truly awesome. Though this book is not really a kind of novel (as it is a screenplay), but while reading each scene I felt that I am watching the movie again. As I progressed to each scene, I felt as if each scene was going live in front of me. The screenplay is exactly same as the book, nothing different (obviously apart from the wonderful cast and effects). And seriously I am glad that I watched the movie before reading this, otherwise I might have missed the charm. And I would suggest doing the same, to you all.



Here, I must admit that this is my first.. first ever J K Rowling (what? right!). I have never read the HP series, and I know this is like a crime (right?). But in my defense, I have watched all the HP movies and I am a huge fan of HP world. I just love the magical world that J K Rowling has created and I just love her imagination. So when I heard that a new movie/book is coming which has a setting of pre-era to Harrypotter, I was not able to resist myself from watching and reading it. I finally I completed it.



I loved all the characters of this new world. All the actors were apt for their particular role - Newt, Tina, Queenie, Jacob, Graves, Credence and all. But my favorite was (can you guess?) - Jacob. He was so adorable and cute. And Queenie is love. The chemistry between both of them is just so good. And I think both of them stole the show.



But one thing I missed was Jhonny Depp :( I heard, before watching the movie, that Jhonny Depp is in it, so I was eagerly waiting for him in the whole movie. And what, just one scene? That's not fair! But hopefully, he will have much bigger roles in the upcoming movies.



And now, lets talk about the main magical things here - the Beasts. All the beasts were unique, cute and entertaining. But my favorite were Muffler and Pickett. Niffler was so mischief and his greed for shiny objects is just so adorable. The attachment of Pickett with Newt will melt your heart.




All in all, this is the first book in the series which has laid the perfect ground for the rest of the books in the series., and it is definitely going to be magical and adventurous. I can't wait to see the next movie to come :( I would recommend it to all the fans of HP.

And yes, special praise to the wonderful cover of the book. The illustrations are too beautiful.

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"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which."
THE END

Before starting this book, I knew that it is about Russian revolution, about which I know nothing. But, I didn't even tried to know about it and was just relied on the book itself. I believed that being a classic and of a different era, it will be difficult to read and understand, but to my contrary believe, it was funny, entertaining and satirical.

I really enjoyed the overall journey of Manor Farm becoming the Animal Farm and then converting back to Manor Farm. The story is about a farm where all the animals took over the farm by pushing out the farm's owner. Now pigs were the head as they were acknowledged as most intelligent animals there. They completely turn over the whole farm into their own house, and just relaxed while other animals worked hard to survive. As the others were too foolish to realize the plans of the pigs, at last they were just workers and the pigs were their masters. The pigs collaborated with humans once again at the end, while it was the reason in the first place that the rebellion started.

It was a fast paced story. During each part of the chapter, you can easily relate to the fact that it is a total satire on humans (I'll keep the Russian revolution out of this and will think in the current situation of the world). We humans want to grow on top positions whatever it takes. The person on top continues to take advantage of his position and the people lower to him keeps on working (like the other animals on the farm). The lower ones think that they are not capable of thinking strategies and plan, so top ones are always right. If someone is doing any good but is competition to others, then they try to force him out of the system (like what happened to Snowball). Strategies are laid out, weak ones are sacrificed, just for the sake of their own good.

Overall, I really enjoyed this story and it was really entertaining, contrary to my believe. The writing was simple and up to the mark. It made me think at each point that how humans take advantage of each other for their own benefits. How the weak and poor ones are sacrificed for the sake of rich and stronger ones.

This story can have a different impact and different meaning for each one of you. But for me it was perfect satire on humans. Seriously a master piece by [a:George Orwell|3706|George Orwell|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1588856560p2/3706.jpg] and I hope think that it should be included in syllabus of each school.

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".

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