I liked Ayn Rand’s "Anthem"

I rewrote my old review

Yes, to hear "Ayn Rand" and "Like" in the same sentence on this subreddit is beyond fiction, but what can I do, I liked this story. Probably because it looks like a fanfiction about Zamyatin's "We" (Which, unfortunately, is not as popular as "1984" and "Brave New World").

Let's start with the world of this story.

This is a dystopia where people have numbers and nicknames instead of names, pronouns are removed from the lexicon: I, He, She, You, etc. People live according to a certain schedule (wake up, have breakfast, work, have lunch, work, go to the theater, have dinner, sleep, repeat), but progress here has gone back 100 years and the most advanced invention is a candle.

The world of this story is frightening. And this is due to the way the book is written, namely in the form of the diary of the main character, which makes you feel the atmosphere of a creepy place where robots in human guises seem to live.

Now about the plot.

The main character works as a cleaner and one day finds a strange door leading to a tunnel, and there he finds strange flasks on the ceiling. And that's where the story begins.

I liked the first half. The way the hero tried to create something in secret from the government, his thoughts and experiences on this matter are quite interesting and intense. Although there were some silly moments (How he quietly built a stove in the tunnel is still a mystery).

But the second half is dissapoint. After the hero escaped into the forest, the author seemed to be trying to finish the story as quickly as possible and therefore there are no obstacles for the hero, and he also finds an old house that has been standing for as much as 100 years and at the same time it looks like someone just hasn't cleaned there for a month. Yes, it is clear that the author showed the freedom of the hero in this way, but still this part is somehow poorly done.

Now about the main character.

Of the main characters ever created by this author, this one is the most adequate, but still not like all the others. Although he tried to be like everyone else, he was too tall and smart (and lucky) for this world. But it still makes you sad for him in the middle of the story.

I can't say anything about the philosophy of this author, only that the author has told much better about her here, and only because it is a short book.

The author's writing style is normal here. The book is written in the form of a diary, as I said above, because of this, the emotions of the hero are much stronger. The author's syllable is hard to read. And Ayn Rand, as much as she was hated, wrote atmospherically.

As a result, I liked the story. Let the second half of the story be bad, and the hero is not very interesting, but I liked the gloomy world, the first half, where the hero tried to invent something, and the atmosphere of a gray world and freedom from it.

It's not the good dystopia, but I can't call it a bad one either.