omg i did this book for my novel study in grade 10,
I think I read it on my own just for fun when I was 13-14...?
Granted, I had read animal farm much, much earlier, at an age when perhaps the novelty of the talking animals overshadowed the more subtle plots - and was thus predisposed to liking Orwell.
Eh, you should give it another go at some point - Cliff notes exist for Shakespear and Emma, Sparknotes for Tolstoy and Rabelais, and specialist forums for Dostoevsky and Einstein - but for a novel... Meh.