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Zamyatin's protagonist, D-503, is a mathematician as well, and as such, he consciously eschews flowery language. Natasha Randall's translation is excellent, and she keeps...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Wed Jan 30 20:54:49 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 21:43:08 -0800 2008 We is generally considered the grandfather of dystopian literature. Before Orwell had his Big Brother, and before Huxley had his Brave New World , Yevgeny had We and the all-powerful Benefactor. Hugely insp...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Nov 01 23:42:07 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 01 23:44:02 -0700 2008
Blissfully, drunkenly, I ...more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Aug 14 18:27:18 -0700 2007 Fri May 02 16:34:30 -0700 2008 1984. Both had flawed writing, but does this get points for having been written first (1924 vs. 1949)? I believe so. Some mistake his having translated Orwell into Russian for his having been inspired by Orwell and not the reverse. It's unbel...more...]]> 2 3 false false Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 09:06:34 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 09:28:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Sun Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 18:29:54 -0800 2008 Sun May 04 12:28:19 -0700 2008
With the 200-Years ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Feb 13 17:07:09 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 17:24:44 -0800 2008 There is something charming about this book, the familiarity of the ideas and the way you can see its influence twining through 20th century literature, but like a lot of pioneering works it's more interesting for what it says than what it is, I think. This could be the fault of a rather dr...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 14:07:13 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 16:21:54 -0800 2008 Brave New World by several years. It is George Orwell's inspiration for 1984, and was thought to be the main inspiration for Brave New World, until Adolexus Huxley claimed that he wrote Brave Ne...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 18:28:06 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 18:29:20 -0800 2007
I really enjoyed this book. But then, I've often enjoyed books about utopian societies. This one was apparently one of the first, if not THE first to theorize about a supposedly utop...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 10:10:37 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 10:10:37 -0800 2009 I learned that Ayn Rand is a plagiarist and George Orwell had a crackerjack publisher.

For me, what really stood out in this novel, and perhaps in many of the really GREAT ones, were not the main characters of D & I (begi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 08 09:49:22 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 09:58:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Mon Jan 19 15:58:52 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 16:34:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 02:36:40 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 02:36:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 18:38:51 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 21:34:42 -0700 2009 1984 on it; the influences this novel has had on 20th century literature is a fascinating slice of this book’s historical significance. But, seeing as you’re reading a book review and not a Wikipedia article, you’re more in...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 09:58:35 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 09:59:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 07:11:57 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 07:39:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 03 10:27:14 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 12:07:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 10 10:46:50 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 12:09:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 14:53:13 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 03:40:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 true false Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 01 18:18:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 18:24:03 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=76171