I maybe reviewed this last year. But I like to read Anthem with students because it’s more or less interesting, the themes are super bold-type obvious, and the novel is short. Here’s what 12th graders thought of it. “hate the book, and now that it’s my third time reading this i hate it just that much more. basically i would use this book as a fire starter.” “I liked the book. It was very interesting the whole time I was reading it. It was different from […]
“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”
Whatever, I liked this. I think I wouldn’t trust anybody who LOVED this or anybody who HATED this. And that’s because as a novel, it’s more or less just a soap opera. It’s just some screwed up sexual politics to it, but really what book doesn’t. I wouldn’t super trust a novel that really discusses a progressive stance on sexual politics to be all that good since our society is so screwed up on the issue, it would read like fantasy. But otherwise, I find […]
I tried something new.
I feel like there are two types of people in the world: people who have read Atlas Shrugged, and people who would rather be eaten alive by maggots than read Atlas Shrugged. I’m joking, slightly, of course, but I was possibly the last indifferent person on earth to read it. To be clear, upfront: I have neither the intention, nor the energy, to pick apart and debate Rand’s actual objectivist philosophy within the scope of this review. (To poke the bear slightly, Mallory Ortberg sums […]