Title: Anthem Author: Ayn Rand Average number of words per page: more than 100 STORY: 10 readers have rated this story. Average story rating: 8.09/10.0 ILLUSTRATIONS: 10 readers have rated the illustrations. Average illustration rating: 4.4/10.0

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Story Rating 4.0 out of a possible 10.0

Book review by: Writer28 age: 17 Review submitted on 05/07/2009 at 10:01:50 list all 10 reviews for this book

Illustrations Rating 5.0 out of a possible 10.0

Writer28 writes the following about Anthem :

I didn't enjoy this book at all. Though Ayn may have some interesting things to say and some good ideas, this fictional story didn't do a very good job of getting them across in an effective manner. The characters have no depth--just cliche mindsets--they are exactly what you expect they would be, knowing the plot of the book. Ayn would have been better off without this book--she should have written a nonfiction paper to express these ideas or something along the lines of The Virtue of Selfishness. The last two chapters were her attempt to make her point--and they almost seemed detached from the rest of the book, proving the insignificance of the plot. I know that her farfetched scenario was an attempt at scaring people into her idealistic society by mocking a current one, but I found it too farfetched to be successful. Even if we continued to live and develop at our current rate, I don't think there will every be a chance of going into such a deep regression.

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