Wes’s Life

Let me first throw out the fact that I absolutely love books about Utopias and Dystopias. I was intro­duced to them during high school as required read­ing. I loved Fahren­heit 451, thor­ougly enjoyed The Giver and I need to re-​read Brave New World (I didn’t read it as well as I should have). It surpised me that I had never heard of Ayn Rand until recently. So when I stum­bled upon it at the book­store and read the back cover I imme­di­ately picked it up.

First off, this book is short; some­thing around 100 pages short. The book I pur­chased appar­ently had the Eng­lish ver­sion, which she revised for Amer­i­can audi­ences, in the back with her revi­sions scratched in with a pen. This didn’t really entice me, I just thought the book was longer. I man­aged to finish this book in about three hours or so (with a nap in the middle some­where). I can tell you that the first chap­ter is con­fus­ing until you “get it.” After that, the book goes very fast. I’d rather not say to much, but it fol­lows the typ­i­cal sto­ry­line of real­iza­tion, prob­lem, solu­tion, sat­is­fac­tion.

I liked it a lot, but I’m prob­a­bly pre­dis­posed to liking this kind of book, with all of the other Utopia/Distopia books that I have read and enjoyed before. If you need a brief intro­duc­tion to the world of Utopias, def­i­nitely pick it up.