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Summary: Excellent Story!
Review: This is an excellent book that will make you look at your life in a different way. Never again will you take anything for granted, and god forbid this is how we all end up. In a world where we and us is known, the single word "I" is uttered and then lost . . . Another book of interest that I have read which made me view life in a different manner was Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Another excellent choice of reading!
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Summary: A superb introduction to Ayn Rand
Review: If you're unfamiliar with the works of Ayn Rand, 'Anthem' or 'The Fountainhead' are good starting points. Aspiring writers will find the 50th anniversary edition of 'Anthem,' which includes an earlier rendition with revisions in Rand's handwriting, quite a treat. I don't give the book 5 stars because the last chapter is a bit repetitive - intelligent readers will get her point long before she is finished stating it.
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Summary: Anthem
Review: I believe that I've now read this book about eight or so times. It was only recently that I discovered what the story means to me. I finally realized the meaning of the title, this is a discovery of what it means to be human. He experiences everything for the first time, curiosity of the world around him, friendship, and most importantly, love. The poetic style draws you in to empathy and builds a yearning in yourself for him to be free. Ayn Rand, unfortunately, gets too preachy a few of the final chapters but writes a truly incredible piece of definitive literature despite that flaw.
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Summary: A page-turner
Review: This book eloquently and bluntly makes a statement for the intellectualy elite of or society. I am not saying that I am one of this elite, but I think that any social system that holds its people in ignorance should be run away from so that they can pursue the knowledge that they deserve to have because all men are not created equal. I do not see why we should believe so.A must read for any of the intellectual elite.
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Summary: Complex, but interesting view of a far fetched society.
Review: Yo, dis book was da bomb. It was about the best book i ever read. It made me think a lot about how things would be different in a collectivistic society, and it would suck so i'm glad i'm livin in the good 'ol USA under the leadership of Bill Clinton.
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Summary: First book I've read that REALLY had something to say.
Review: At first I picked up this book with the intent of entering the anual essay contest. I thought, "Looks short and simple." But the truth is that this book is anything BUT simplistic. The style was only confusing for the first page, but after that first page the style was what really made the book what it is. Some of the reviews I read stated that the book is simplistic and childish in form. I feel sorry for those people because they obviously missed the point of the book.
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Summary: 0 stars is more like it...
Review: This book is pathetic. The ideas presented are repeated many more times than necessary. Rand took a treatise on government and society, dressed it up in (bad) prose, and presented it as a novel. There are much better dystopian novels: Brave New World, We, etc. The writing is bland and didactic. Save your money.
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Summary: They sure like this book in Caracas
Review: Wow! NINE reviews from Caracas, Venezuela, all submitted on the same day - most of them with hotmail addresses, a couple with no addresses at all, and ONE from an AOL account. Nothing fishy *there*. Say, gosh, this must be one heck of a darn good book! Guess I'll get a copy and reread it even though I thought it was a stupid piece of kludgy, heavy-handed melodrama the first time I read it! Maybe it's not too late to fish my old copy out of the trash!
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Summary: Fascinating
Review: This book is about a society were there is no such word as "I". Everything in the society involves everybody, everything is "we", and everything a person does is for the good of the society, in other words is an exaggeration of communism. I really like the author's view of communism, when I read this book I felt that she, the author, is making fun of communism. This book really opened my mind, now have a real opened-minded view of this topic.
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Summary: This book seemed rather simplistic and childlike.
Review: I can not entirely understand the concept of this book. I believe it is more the concept of this society that exists without individuality that confuses me rather than the books wording. I think the society that is so different from our own, that is preventing me from grasping the entire theory, "all people are one". However confusing this book appears to be, it was still incredibly predictable. You know what is going to happen after you have read the first chapter, especially the ending. I also found the character's quick changes in perspective of life, completely incomprehensive. They are unable to find the middle between total selflessness and complete selfishness. These are in desperate need to find the middle because of the drastic difference between the two. The characters have a rather childlike mindset. This annoys me to no end. I can not seem to understand why a writer of such talent, would choose to write this book, in the form she did.
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