Das Buch zieht sich einfach so in die Länge. Das Positive daran war der Blickwinkel auf Kommunismus, den man nicht wirklich kennt, wenn man in einer Demokratie aufgewachsen ist. In kleinster Detail wurde der Leser in die Szenerie gesetzt und fühlte mit den Charakteren mit. An manchen Stellen war es einfach zu lange hingezogen. Ein Reread wird mir schwer fallen.

She was green under the ears when she wrote it and it shows. In her debut novel, Ayn Rand is wrestling with her craft and seems confused with so much use of unspeakable word in it. She was searching for the right words and pace but is as helpless as she would have been in Russia. However she is able to portray the horrors of living in a Communist state. The writing sometimes seems vivid in description of the treacherous USSR weather and conditions; sometimes the reading of it seems no less(i got a painful throat while reading it).