“We” “We” “We” “We” “We”… well this is what I thought of “We”. Through out the novel I found it to be decently engaging. The whole tension brought on by d-503’s plight into the terrifying world of imagination kept me rooting for him and hoping he will come out on the other side with thoughts of unicorns and rainbows and illogical things like that. Instead I get slammed with my hero getting a lobotomy and acting like the computer I am typing this blog on.
Now don’t get me wrong, I am not one for sappy illogical endings where the long lost something or other comes out of the woodwork and saves them all, but come on, I wanted some stones to be thrown. D-503 had come far in his rebellious nature and in my opinion his terrible condition of having a soul had gotten bad enough that he might have shattered a few glass walls before rolling over.
Looking beyond the disappointing ending the book as a whole was decent. I enjoyed the brightly human bursts of emotion that i-330 brought to the rather bland and uninteresting conditions of the novel. I don’t know if it was because we had already read a couple of dystopian novels but I felt myself tripping over familiar surroundings. Turns out when creating perfect societies authors have pretty similar basic ideas. Assigning of jobs and dictating as much free time as possible has been done before and I couldn’t help but yearn for something a bit more creative. But then again how can you have creativity in a stifling society of glass and numbers.
So as a whole I would give “We” three stars out of five. It kept me guessing on and off and managed to get me to care about the heartless robot d-503 although the end left me wanting more than just closure but a wild rebellion of feeling versus logic.
I really loved the quote you chose. It was really powerful and, to be honest, quite true. I know from my own experience that inability to tame something makes it all the more attractive, for whatever reason. Be it an everlasting goal to strive for or the beauty of a wild thing untamed we may never know. But it is indeed there. Life as a whole is a challenge. With nothing to challenge ourselves with it becomes bland and boring. It is the thrill of the chase that often keeps us going. I also liked your take on the "savages." It just goes to show what perception can do. People considered closer to animals than humans were a large step closer to human than the robots that the citizens of Onestate are.
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