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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Having become a fan of Ayn Rand, I enjoyed this book.
Great read. Gives some perspective of life under the Soviet Union. Not speculative like Atlas Shrugged but based on Ayn Rand's real life experience. Best fictional story that I have read of hers so far.
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
My first Ayn Rand. I have never been able to tackle the Fountainhead but I enjoyed the dystopian alternate reality that she used for social commentary.
Forgot I read this...as I got a few pages in the story came flooding back! Ayn Rand was great!!.
Good grief, this is not the book I needed to be reading right now. Yet another book with strange linkages to the time we're currently living in. Though the author of this book tells a story of how communism left people bereft of their potential, I can't help but see similarities to how capitalism has done the same thing to people in the United States, leaving them stuck, looking on as rich people sweep past in diamonds and furs. And in this book, the people with dreams and principles and art and life are the ones who wind up trodden into the mud. Blah.
I didn't like this book as much as her others. I still don't agree with her philosophies, but I really enjoyed her writing and story telling in Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Although this book was interesting in that it documents what life was like in Russia at the time of the communist revolution, the story wasn't nearly as compelling.