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  3 of 3 members found this review helpful.

  • Rated 4 stars

  “I think what always stood out me was that this book was written in 1937. It made me think - that this was a woman ahead of her time. Reading it as a young girl, a teenager I remember how nearly poetic I thought she had written it. How the desire and drive for individuality and freedom parallelled my own station at the time.
  
  We are taught a duality growing up, taught so many contraditions. Do as were told but strive to be original. In school they want conformity... sheep and cows to follow the rest of the herd and remain in docile, yet when it comes to sports they want aggressive winning spirits and teams. Champions.
  
  I'd say this is a book I read early on that drove home my desires to be an individual and value freedom.
  
  Twenty-some odd years later and the sentiment of the book remains with me.”

  SalaciousMind wrote this review Wednesday, January 2 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  1 of 1 members found this review helpful.

  • Rated 0 stars

  “ I don't really know where to start, but I'm reading Anthem by Ayn Rand. The characters of this story have interesting names such as Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000. The plot of this book is about a primitive-like world where innovations are not allowed. Equality 7-2521 discovers electricity and tries to reveal it to the council. To sum it up, the novel is about the struggles two people share in a world where they feel like they don't belong.
  
  
  
  
  The book is interesting because of the aspects of limited technology and a community who refers to themselves as we. I disagree with the the idea of limiting knowledge to the weakest of the society. This theme is similar in today's school system and is known as the No Child Left Behind Act.
  
  
  
  
  
  Anthem is a very different read and takes some getting use to due to the uniformity of the language. I would recommend it to anyone who was seeking a quick read that offers an alternative way of living.
  
  
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  Jeremy wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink )
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  1 of 1 members found this review helpful.

  • Rated 4 stars

  “Anthem - an allegorical work written in a concept novel way - is a brilliant, bitter, projection of the value ethos of Statism - and how Man-enslaving dogmas lead to destruction of men, but how MAN can, and will, truimph in revolt against IRRATIONAL theories. Anthem works for Objectivism in a reverse phasion, an intellectual equivalent of a political white paper, written as a thinly ethced ficton. "Ideas are the characters" in this work, the hero is not a real person as much as a real idea. Rand sets the intellectual dummy-guide for those who can still hold that ALTRUISM and STATISM are "some kind of noble ideals". A brilliant mini-sized epic.”

  Sriram wrote this review Saturday, October 14 2006. ( reply | permalink )
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  1 of 1 members found this review helpful.

  • Rated 5 stars

  “Believe it or not, Ayn Rand DID write books that were less than 1,000 pages long. This is a great way to find out what Ayn Rand is all about without locking yourself into a huge novel. Try this, and if you like it then move on to Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead. This book should be required reading in every high school in the US. Just as a reminder of what our country was built on...”

  tsteele93 wrote this review Saturday, October 14 2006. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 4 stars

  “This thought when my teacher said I had to read this book, I wanted to cry. But that was me judging a book by its cover. This book what life should be for all and isn't. This is one book I will call interesting without a negative meaning being implied.”

  bosseblonde wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 3 stars

  “This was a good book, despite its being sort of predictable. I liked the horrific utopia and the main character's escape, and his emotions at discovering the world of "I" were pretty well-written.”

  swankivy wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 0 stars

  “I read this book in my ninth grade english class and loved it. It was very different then what I usually like but it was interesting and unpredictable.”

  Megan R wrote this review 4 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink )