I started reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It is dystopia; written in the first person as a journal by one of the future's utopian and completely rational "numbers". People do not have names there, they are numbers. I like these dark books about the downtrodden masses that are unaware of their captivity, but slowly awaken to the fact that they are living a lie perpetuated by the state.
I can see the main character starting to unravel already. The truths he accepts are beginning to waver under investigation.
My former roommate Seth lent it to me. I am grateful.
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