Title: This may have been groundbreaking 70 years ago, ...
Review: but if an unknown author wrote this today it would be derided by everyone who read it (and that wouldn't be very many because it would never get published) as boring, simplistic, passe and irrelevent. Yeah, yeah, yeah, ... the evils of collectivism, the Borg, socialism is bad, individuality rocks, yadda yadda, been there, done that.The story itself is basic individual v. collective ending in a 10-page social/political diatribe by the author. The politics of it were no doubt relevent to a communist exile 70 years ago, but are pretty corny to a 21st century American.So, my review is not a knock on Ayn Rand. The story was probably new, exciting and relevent when she wrote it. But unless a reader has had their head in a hole for a long time I can't see how this book will make much of an impression.
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