There's this belief I have that each book has its own specific time frame that a reader should spend consuming a book. Something like War and Peace is meant to be slowly read over months, while The Old Man and the Sea should be read in one sitting. So reading a book either too quickly or too slowly can have a definite impact on the reading experience. We is a book that should probably be read in two or three sittings... but this last week was crazy busy and I stretched out the reading experience to about ten days. So maybe some of the power of the book was diluted for me since I mostly read it in little bits here and there. That being said, I still enjoyed it but maybe not as much as I could have...The book We is set in a dystopian future and heavily influenced George Orwell when he wrote 1984. Actually he took quite a bit from We it seems. Both are about a guy living in a world run by an oppressive government that controls everything who then meets a new strange woman, starts a secret diary, finds out about some secret rebels and ends up being tortured. It does get points for being original... but it isn't quite as thrilling as 1984. I'll give it an A-.
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