I agree with Mr. Topp.In _Anthem_ Rand preaches selfishness and disregard of others. For her efforts she has been rewarded with a following that calls her a "visionary" when she is obviously doing nothing more than following the current trend in America to bash communism, socialism and any political theory that does not promote capitalism and competition.In this novel Rand presents a Utopian society as fundamentally evil because it suppresses technology. What Rand forgets is that a society's worth should NOT be judged solely on its technological advances. If so, what would life be? A game to collect the best and most numerous quantity of robots?_Anthem_ is weak philosophically and written with mediocre literary finesse. I am still regretting having wasted my money on it. But it's your choice... I hope the book store will let me return it. I think I'll buy some Faulkner.