glad to read to this book with my highschooler.

Surprisingly this was a classic that I never got around to reading when I was young. I like that it was on the shorter side because it was a quick and to the point read for me. Some classics are overly wordy. My copy had footnotes which was very helpful since I'm not well versed in the history that Orwell was satirizing. I think this is a good cautious tale in that we should know (and learn) from history and we should be careful in giving power of our lives to others.

I didn't see anything really bad in this book, although it is somewhat dark, but a more mature reader who understands communism will get much more out of it.