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Title: Anthem by Ayn Rand, Paul Meier ISBN: 1-56511-548-1 Publisher: Highbridge Audio Pub. Date: 14 March, 2002 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.98 (364 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Short, Sweet, Thought Provoking Intro to Ayn Rand
Comment: The novel is a tale of a time when the human race has lost all individuality, when people are reduced to numbers and have lost their freedom to make decisions for themselves. Through this novel, written and completed while Ayn Rand was working on Fountainhead, Ayn Rand introduces her philosophy concerning the individual.
The novel really got me thinking and I couldn't put it down. At just over a hundred pages, i read it all in one setting, and thought about it the rest of the week. Though the world in Anthem is a very dark and depressed one indeed, it comments nonetheless on more subtle forms of control and losses of our individual freedom in today's world.
An excellent read and a great intro to her philosophy. This book led me to purchase Atlas Shrugged, and I recommend these both to all my friends.
Amazing and Powerful.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sums the Situation quite Nicely
Comment: Anthem demonstrates Rand's views on progress and the nature of society in light of that progress. Further, it demonstrates the effects on individual initiative and progress, which she thought was based on such, in socialist societies.
1984 (by Orwell, who was originally a socialist, then realized in the Soviet Union its ultimate end), which was written after Rand's first two books, is quite like both of them in their basic political respects and says basically the same thing about altruistic systems and their ultimate results.
Personally, I found this book a nice easy read, and as a regular member of the Politics and Current Affairs board, intellectually stimulating. I thought that the end to 1984 was slightly more fitting, but that does not defer from the political points involved. I think that there is one basic difference between the two. Orwell sought to demonstrate the systems that are created, Rand (in this book) sought to examine that specifically happens to the thought of people (however Orwell did some of this).
Rating: 5
Summary: I am. I Think. I will..... I AM A MAN!
Comment: Be positively uplifted by the power, glory and beauty in this fantasic book written by Ayn Rand.
In the society of today, man is treaten like a slave more and more everyday. This book shows you just the way out. Dare to be yourself!
You have your mind!
-Dave-
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