Anthem
by Ayn Rand
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Author: Ayn RandNarrator: Christopher Lane
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Unabridged
Published: 2004-11-01
ISBN: 0786182296
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Book Reviews of Anthem
Book Review: A for book, C+ for narration, B+ for addition of a forward
Summary: 4 Stars
Ayn Rand is an icon - whose work's have continually become more and more prophetic. What more can be said about her then what already has been said?
Anthem is a very good short story that must of course pale next the massive Atlas Shrugs and the Fountainhead. But Anthem obviously has the markings of what would be to come.
Anthem starts like a very dark science fiction. The story takes place in the future society - where the word "I" and all it's meaning no longer exist. This is Rand's vision of the type of world where stifling altruist and collectivist philosophies might take us. - A world where everyone is equal (although some are more equal then others) and everyone must adhere to stifling laws and regulations enforced by powerful, dictatorial, closed minded bureaucrats. It's a society that only Ellsworth Toohey might dream of. This is world not unlike the one at end of Animal Farm or the world of 1984 - but Anthem's world might be even bleaker if that's at all possible.
In fact the futuristic society in Anthem is very similar to Orwell's 1984 only Anthem's final message is not ultimately so depressing and pessimistic. In fact Anthem's message is actually optimistic and hopeful.
As Rand has condemned certain philosophies and beliefs as evil she does not condemn man or mans soul or potential as evil. Those "evil" philosophies are defined and demonstrated clearly in her later novels and it must be assumed that they have come to fruition in the collectivist world of Anthem - but one would only know this by reading her latter works.
Anthem shows man's true nature (at least certain men) - that once free of the shackles of certain philosophies - is not base or evil. Anthem like Atlas Shrugged or the Fountainhead is actually homage to mans greatest strengths. - His mind, soul, independence, romanticism, individualism and love.
Anthem predicts mans best qualities and greatest accomplishments have seen light in the past and will come to see the light again once. Anthem will not leave you bored or depressed but leave you asking questions with a sense of hope of what could be. Anthem is a story that that will most likely stay with you.
This book on tape has no where near as good a narration as on the other addtion of Anthem on CD. But there is a very good forward by Leonard Peikoff on this CD that is not on the other.
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