R. A. Lafferty wrote a science fiction novel called Past Master in which the leaders of a planet in the far future bring Thomas More forward in time to fix their failed utopia. One of Lafferty's points was that these future leaders never understood that More's Utopia is a satire. The truth is eve...
3 Stars.Very interesting if you are developing civilization in your stories me thinks. Still a lot to take in at once. May have to reread it to absorb it better. I dunno. Quick read though.***Read For School***
Overall: I enjoyed Book 2. However, Book 1 was very dense and dry along with the introduction. The ideas in Book 2, though were very interesting. I loved the use of the author as a foil in the plot, and as a way to keep the story going. I love that the author uses sarcasm and contradiction to prove ...
It reminded me those days in which I fought to reach the end of "The Prince" by Machiavelli. But I was 14 years old at that time and felt somehow justified in not being able to stand the 16th century language and prose. "Utopia" is, in fact, coeval with "The Prince" and turned out to be a really ob...
Utopia, by Thomas More ****The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper ****Imagine a world where nothing is your own. The house you live in, the furnishings, the clothes you wear; everything is held in common with the State deciding who receives what. You can be evicted at any time and forced to...
I think this is one of those things that is more enjoyable in the original language...while the book wasn't painful to read I wasn't that engaged with it, and probably won't pick it up again.
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