Anthem

Anthem

1936 • 48 pages

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Anthem is a tale of a future dark age of the great “we” – a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values.

He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all traces of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: He had stood forth from the mindless human herd. He was alone.


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Short enough that it can be comfortably finished within one day. Read if you want to say you've read Ayn Rand. 
Generally very little finesse, a thinly veiled treatise of the author's worldview. Ending feels jarring, but a reasonable dystopia novel in the first two thirds.

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This is a short one, I started to read it in June and made it to Part 5 and life got in the way. I finally finished it in one sitting. It's nice to see where Hunger Games, Divergent, and all those other dystopian type of novels get their inspiration from.

August 28, 2016

Anthem is a book that every proud individualist should read. I guess a lot of altruists or socialists hate it but they are worthless trash and their opinions are worth even less.

May 12, 2017

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