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Utopia 58
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Utopia 58
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Publisher's Summary
From one-million copy best-selling author Daniel Arenson comes Utopia 58, a dystopian novel as chilling as The Handmaid's Tale and Black Mirror.
Imagine a perfect society. A world with no racism, sexism, or ageism. A utopia.
In Utopia 58, everyone is equal. Everyone must be equal.
Too beautiful? A mask will hide that pretty face. Too tall? We'll saw your legs down to size. Too male or female? The surgeon's knife will fix that. Too smart? A buzzer in your skull will drown out all that pesky thinking. You will be equal. Like it or not.
Utopia 58, built atop the ruins of North America, created perfect harmony. A society with no race, gender, or age. Pure equality.
KB209 was born into this utopia. He has no true name. No past. No future. He is one among millions. The same.
One day, at a propaganda rally, KB209 glimpses an act of startling defiance. A citizen with painted toenails. A woman in a genderless society. Color in a black and white world.
When KB209 confronts her, he is drawn into an underground rebellion. A movement that dares to dream. That dares to say: "We are unique. We are individuals. We will be free!"
What listeners say about Utopia 58
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- B. Rawlings
- 18-12-2019
Wow, not quite what I was expecting...
Firstly, narrator is on point, as usual. Audible is pretty good at casting these people.
Next, the story. The first hour or two was a little hard to get through given all the repetition and "equality phrasing" used. But once that's over, it's pretty much nonstop action until the end of the book! The characters are believable and enjoyable, and the story has twist after twist all the way through. I felt like a few opportunities for better twists were missed though. I wasn't a huge fan of the ending, but it did have a kind of poetry to it. I felt like it kind of created a few plot holes though from earlier events.
And on the topic of plot holes, I felt like there were a few inconsistencies like that throughout the story too. Police who are basically mental zombies due to their mindcaps accept bribes? That didn't make sense. And people who have never swam before dive into water to rescue each other, swimming and diving with skill? Some of these kind of killed the believability of the story and took me out of the world it had put me in.
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