It probably was a mistake to hope that I could replicate the stirrings I had when I first read this book at age 12. What must be lost in translation saddens me further.
200 years after the last revolution, the planet is under the rule of OneState. Buildings are made of transparent glass, aeros float in the air, and people live by following a Table of Hours. D-503 is a mathematician, builder of the rocket INTEGRAL, which would soon take off and put the whole Solar S...
Just blew me away. Amazing that it was written in the 1920's.I had to read the end twice just to make sure I had read I thought I had read.It would make a great movie.
One can see echoes of this story in other greats of dystopian SF such as Brave New World. Written in the early 1920's it hadn't taken Zamyatin long to realise the logical consequences of the ideological reasoning behind his country's recent revolution. And this is precisely what is explored here, se...
It's kind of funny that I found myself reading this the night before, and on July 4th. America's celebration of its independence is trivialized in some ways by our waving flags, sloppy parades and drunken fireworks, so it was good to read an intelligent author's vision of what the lack of freedom ca...
I don't normally do Russian Lit. It's always depressing and stuff. We is no different in the depressing part but it's heartbreaking and that rarely happens in Dystopian novels. I love this book.
This is one of those books that I knew I'd put off reviewing. When a book is classic, or popular, or iconic.. you just know you'll never find anything original to say that hasn't already been said, or that'll do the book justice.We is set in a future utopian paradise, The One State, ruled by their ...
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