A review by valeriebrett
Dystopia Utopia Short Stories by Dave Golder, Jack London, Richard Jefferies, Samuel Butler, Gerri Leen, Claude Lalumière, Robert W. Chambers, Jeff Parsons, M. Darusha Wehm, Edward Bellamy, Sarah Lyn Eaton, Konstantine Paradias, Kelsey Shannahan, Carolyn Charron, J.M. Templet, Voltaire, Nidhi Singh, Thomas More, Kim Antieau, Michelle Kaseler, Steve Carr, Mary Shelley, Megan Dorei, Rudyard Kipling, Jeremy Szal, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Andrew J. Wilson, Russ Thorne, William Morris, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

I can’t rate this book because so much of it I didn’t understand; for instance, I can’t tell if the book is racist, or self-aware and describing realistically what characters would be like (ie racist) in that time & place. There were aspects that were interesting, such as the adventures and the touching friendship between the Tibetan lama and Kim, but a lot of it I wasn’t exactly sure what was happening. I also don’t understand the time he spent with... Englishmen? I’m not sure? UK people? But he was Irish? I need someone to explain this to me. Also women were spoken of by the characters as a total nuisance but it seemed like maybe Kipling wanted to show that they were actually helpful, but again, not sure. Basically, if this was written contemporarily I’d know what was up, but this book is really old. It uses “thou”!!!