A review by clockless
World's End by Upton Sinclair

4.0

A decent book overall, significantly better than The Jungle, probably because it successfully focuses on a single character. Sinclair writes with the benefit of a lot of hindsight, yet still manages to insert a lot of confused, borderline conspiratorial ideas into the work, much to the detriment of the story and whatever historical value it would have. The characters are the book's strongest point; Sinclair's willingness to talk more openly about the things his contemporaries shied away from or talked around gives the story a lot of credibility. As with The Jungle, if he weren't so focused on making sure the reader walked away with the right opinions, he would be capable of writing a great novel. Perhaps he did, but it isn't this one.