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Jess
Jan 28, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: borrowed-from-library, classics, dystopia, audiobook
Jumbled thoughts:

1. I keep alternating between "this would be an intriguing movie" and "this could never be a movie, it's too horrifying."

2. Somebody's pulling my leg that this was written in 1935. That or Sinclair Lewis had some serious prescience going on.

3. I would love to see this story from the point of view of a black person, maybe the Dr. Adams mentioned towards the end.

4. Jesus. Just. ...more
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Allison
Mar 10, 2017 rated it really liked it
While there are better written dystopian novels, this is the most prescient to read, given today's political climate.


And yet, to quote the final passage:
"And still Doremus goes on in the red sunrise, for a Doremus Jessup can never die". ...more
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Valarie
Jul 07, 2008 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Frighteningly prescient. Wow.
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Sep 24, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Angela
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Angel Castaner
Jun 03, 2023 rated it really liked it
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