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First attempt at "Animal Farm"

Ok so I chose "Animal Farm" for my next book because A. I had it already and B.its very short. Before I head into one the meatier picks on my list, I want to knock out some of the more easily read books.

Animal Farm - written in 1945 and published in the U.S. in 1946, is a satire about communism told from the perspective of farm animals. Weird, weird, weird. I breezed through the first 80 pages (its only 128 pages - on the borderline of even being called a book) but then hit a wall. I kind of hate this book. It's boring, the writing is elementary and I'm not interested at all in the subject matter. I only have 40 or so pages left and I'm doing everything I can to avoid going back to it. I feel like I'm back in college again where procrastination was my middle name. I was the student who did EVERYTHING last minute. I didn't start writing my 20 page senior thesis until 2 days before it was due. Somehow I always managed to get good grades despite my horrible habits but I digress. Back to the avoidance of the book -all of a sudden the floor REALLY needed vacuuming, my morning yoga workout wasn't enough - I needed to do kickboxing too and oh, wasn't there a marathon of "America's Next Top Model" on somewhere? I mean how pathetic am I? I don't HAVE to read this book - no one would really care if I just stopped but I made a commitment and I'm going to see it through dammit! Hate you right now George Orwell!

So I guess I'll pour a glass of red wine - maybe the book will be more fun with a buzz on and finish the ghastly thing!

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