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This is my favourite version of Animal Farm. The narrator just puts all of his heart into this recording, and his rendition of Beasts Of England is the best part!
It helps, but the main thing is that they're a competent, trained theatrical actor. Amateurs and screen actors don't make for good audiobooks. They also need to be smart enough to understand what they're reading.
Agreed. I don't know how people get through some of the narrations of some of the others out there. The guy that reads Gulag Archipelago is one of my favorites.
Wowww. I never read this book before. I had seen the animated one several times when I was a boy. I am lying here in bed recovering from painful chest infection which has me coughing so much I couldn’t settle. I came across this and have just had the most peaceful three hours I’ve had in few days! A wonderful experience accompanied by a wonderful narrator reading this fabulous story.
I can see why this novel got the backlash that it did. This man was exposing literally all of the world leaders and their manipulation tactics. Dictators didn’t want their subjects to get their hands on this piece of artwork and wise up. Brilliant.
Animal Farm is a metaphor for the Soviet Union and communism. And its eventual degradation into the exploitation of the people by the so called "elite"...your reference to "world leaders" is an obvious sign of your indoctrination by current Marxist teaching standards.
@@Chloe-fs4bpsomeone is strapping you down and making you listen to this? Oh no! Dial 911 with your phone instead of commenting on RU-vid is my suggestion!
I’m an old man know. Sickly child so music and books were my first language and friends. This is the first book that made me cry. Nothing has been the same since. Thank you for the book of my childhood I’m beyond grateful.
I've no idea where you come from, but have you ever heard of Sir Patrick Moore, eccentric English astronomer? He was born in 1921, served in the RAF through 6 years of war,and was the sole presenter of the longest running programme in the world. The Sky at Night. He had a sickly childhood, was mostly home schooled or self-taught, drew maps of the moon for the lunar landers, and only missed 1 episode in nearly 60 years and sadly died after his last broadcast.😢
Yes they did. It is how human behaves. It is the Emmanuel Goldstein and the two minutes of hate. Where you are basically forced to publicly hate someone and it is hard to not get swept in from time to time. We have an example of this in real life. He is called Donald Trump. The hate and what people blame him for is just insane. Sure. He isn't always the best, but there are so many lies about him it is just pure and blind hatred with any rationality.
@@ashdeezenuts6362 In reality, he was most likely the worst option for the world. Trotsky advocated for world revolution and spreading the revolution to the whole world. Which most likely should have resulted in wars and death all over the world. So many WW2 should not have been caused by the Germans, and maybe Mr H should still have been in charge by the end of it. Everyone has good intentions for what they do. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
It's difficult to give so many characters a personality, yet this narrator did a fantastic job. Also a book read by someone British makes for a more enjoyable listen most of the time.
I work a 12 hour night shift and usually just pop the ear buds in and listen to music. REN’S song Animal Flow inspired me to give this book a shot and I’m glad I got to hear this story. Truly amazing 👍🏻 “4 Legs Good, 2 legs baaaaad” love how the narrator says it 😊
This audiobook is narrated by Timothy West. Timothy West is married to Prunella Scales, aka Sybill Fawlty (Basil's wife) from Fawlty Towers. Their son Samuel West plays Siegfriend in All Creatures Great and Small. Timothy and Samuel have narrated many of JRR Tolkien's material published by Christopher Tolkien.
Thank you sooo much!! Everything about this is just amazing. The narrator’s performance is 100x better than the audiobook you must pay for. And the subtitles!! Truly, thank you from the bottom of my heart
This takes me back to my childhood, when my class were treated to a weekly radio show. The narrator is pitch-perfect for classical books. Thank you so much for taking the time to upload.
You know a narrator is great when they can make a character you are meant to hate, hate by just how he does the character’s voice. This audio book made me detest Squealer, and I love it.
This is extremely well done. They went from freedom for all animals, to all animals working to keep the system that enslaved them alive, to a half democracy, to full communism worse than they faced in the beginning… he painted the pictures of how quickly and easily that line can be blurred. And the role the sheep and horse play along the way is brilliant. Very well written.
This version is narrated by Timothy West. He also did a very good narration of Orwell's "1984". Both appear to be out of print now, but you may be lucky to find used copies, probably on audio cassette.
Yes, but I want to be clear. I was referring to only two very specific audiobook versions narrated by Timothy West that are not being made anymore. There are still many other audiobook versions narrated by a number other people still available as well as many actual paper print editions, both hardcover and paperback. 😋 @@KarenLaMontagne-wv1ch
@@shelbyjames1894 Some people still misunderstand my original comment. I was referring to very specific audiobook versions narrated by actor "Timothy West" being out of print. Many paper print versions as well as many audiobook versions narrated by others are still being made. 😉
I really liked this book. The story was translated to my language, yet i wanted to experience it in original, and i must say that narrator did an excellent job.
I never studied the book in school and have heard it crop up in podcasts numerous times - now I see why it’s so applicable to todays politics… The story and the narrators delivery was amazing! Thank you
Genuinely brilliant book, though it's surprising how few people read it as the detailed allegory for the first few decades of the Soviet Union that it is. The thesis of the book is shockingly leftist for those first introduced to it via the American schooling system, and upon re-reading, the nuances of Orwell's critique of Soviet communism-turned-authoritarian-state-capitalism from a leftist perspective are really striking, and his method of delivery is incredibly unique. One of my favorite books of all time.
You mean authoritarian-state-corporatism. Capitalism is the full decentralization of the power of trade to each individual person. That means we each have the right to choose to buy and sell as we see fit, including who we will work for or who we will hire. All other economic systems removes some of those freedoms from us and gives those choices to another who can tell us what we must/musn't buy or where we will work or who we will hire.
@@MrJuliopolis That's the free market. It is not exclusive to capitalism. For example, market socialism is when companies and producers are owned by the workers, but still exist in a free market. What defines capital is... well, capital. Capital is the ownership of monetary property, by which ownership, rather than actual labor, money is produced. In actuality, capitalism often works *against* the free market by the creation and enforcement of monopolies and the prioritization of short-term profit over long-term economic growth. Corporatism is sometimes used as a euphemism for capitalism, but it is much the same thing- whether it is state corporatism or private corporatism. This is largely because capitalism is defined by competition rather than cooperation. The only form of cooperation in a capitalist structure is analogous to an alliance between parties that eventually intend to conquer the other.
@@dootie8285just figure out who likes to cancel, who changes the meaning of words, who makes up new words, who forces the acceptance of these words, who makes words unspeakable?
Thank you so much, I had to read this whole book and I would take too long to read it all and I couldn’t find a free audiobook with subtitles until I found this video. Love the narrators voice!
I just kept hoping snowball would come back and save them and he never did. Then I realized he was probably eaten by the dogs. What a great and terrible story.
Same things in my head while I was close to end of novel. I felt sorry for not appering of snowball if happened so the fate of animals would be more different
Snowball is a reference to Leon Trotsky, a contemporary of Stalin and Lenin. Trotsky failed to guide the Bolshevik/Communist forces the way he liked and fled to France I believe, living in exile until Russian secret service slaughtered him. (Napolean being a comparison to Stalin)
@@CharlotteMacrickens when he's being driven away. He looks out the window of the trailer and if he was younger he would have smashed the car to "matchsticks" and he was never seen again 😢
@@laurenkimsey1887The thing is, he got what he deserved in the end. If you are not selfish to a degree, you will just find yourself exploited and used. If you blindly trust the government, they will also abused and exploit you. The government will never have your back unless it benefits them and Boxer did not head the warnings he got. If you are told to not think for yourself, you should never trust anything those people tell you ever again. Those who do not want you to think are not your friends. Boxer didn't, and he was turned into glue.
I am grateful to you. This is the first time I've read a book in English, and I definitely had luck to find this wonderful video. The narration and pronunciation by a native speaker are a great help for me.
Its a shame that they rarely write books like this now. The gentle pace and the use of English is superbe, the story is thought provoking and the narration is first class. These days its all rush and instant excitement. (not that there is anything wrong with that as well).
There is definitely something different about classic books. The old timey language is like that lovely smell of an old classic car where it just has something that sticks with you forever
The great heartbreak here is that Russia hasn’t changed. Like Animal Farm, there was a period when real change seemed to be on the horizon. But a new Napoleon in the form of Vladimir Putin stood up on two legs and seated himself at the head of the table. I can’t help but wonder how many “Boxers” lay dead and rotting all across Crimea, unclaimed and now unnamed. Their families told that their fathers, sons, husbands, and brothers had been captured or deserted so that families couldn’t get the handful of rubles due them. As an American in my senior years, I once thought that my country was safe from this sort of tyranny. I know better now. Like Benjamin, I watch in silence. No one wants to hear what old asses have to say.
I wish I had discovered Orwell much earlier in my life. I might not have understood 1984 until.I waa older but I think I would have enjoyed Animal. Even if I wouldn't have seen the parallels with Stalin and Lenin I think the story is written is such a straightforward way that it can be enjoyed on a surface level. One will immediately sympathize with the animals who toil away on the farm and are ill treated by their owner. When they revolt against their abuser and install a new system which they will no longer be beasts of burden, however it quickly descends into something less than idyllic and begins to resemble their previous owner.
