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This apparent sci-fi novel is really an allegorical tale about totalitarianism….and was the first book to be banned by the Soviet Union. I felt the novel starts strong and ends weak. The story is told 1000 years into the future. The narrator informs us how the world is now ruled by a mathematics. People do not have names…they have numbers. Mathematics determines what is best for all people to do. Freedom is akin to chaos. Eliminate freedom and society gets law and order. But our narrator falls i
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Definitely doesn't read like it's 99 years old! Maybe that's the benefit of translated works, the translation can be updated. This is a classic dystopian novel, didn't blow my mind, but it was worth reading.
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