Russia - We - Yevgeny Zamyatin

Russia wasn't a hard country to find sci fi authors. And 'We' soon became a clear choice. I love brave new world and 1984, and this book is cited as being inspiration to both those books. Early into the book it became clear why. A classic dystopian future, of a working drone like population, lacking in empathy, morals and emotion. A bleak view of the future indeed.

The book itself wasn't quite to my taste I'm not a fan of diary style books when the author talks directly to the reader. I find it breaks a little of facade and reminds you this is a work of fiction time and time again, and does encourage me to commit to the book and the story.

The ideas and the struggles in the book are really good though, and well thought out. But I just found this book dry and long winded, I just did care about the people, or their fate. Nice concept, thought provoking, but simply didn't engage with me.