This is a tough one to review, I think most of the issues I have with the book are due to the translation not being the greatest, I think it was copied into French to hide it from the Russians and then future copies were taken from that.

This is the first Dystopian to be written apparently and it is pretty bleak, you can see how Orwell was influenced by it. The bleak Dystopia though is not the main story here, the story is all about D503 and how he breaks away from the bliss everybody is living in and falls in love, the fact that he has never had these feelings before makes the whole experience more traumatic for him.

I have enjoyed reading this even though it was tough going at times, it is worthy of 3.5 stars. Sometimes I was confused with what was going on and then I was blown away by some amazing writing....

"IT IS CLEAR TO EACH OF US THAT TAKING THEIR VOICES INTO ACCOUNT WOULD BE AS RIDICULOUS AS TAKING THE ACCIDENTAL COUGHS OF SICK PEOPLE IN A CONCERT AS A PART OF A MAJESTIC, HEROIC SYMPHONY..."

One of those books I'm glad to have read.