About book Ayn Rand's Anthem: The Graphic Novel (2011)
Found this in the ebook offerings of my public library and haven't had the patience to read it any other way. We'll see if I have the patience to read it as a graphic novel. Update: I suspect there was quite a bit of the original text missing, and the images of the graphic novel have a decidedly '70s / Logan Run look in them. All in all, not a bad way to get a quick sense of the book, though. I've read Anthem, and I really like the book. It's accessible and simple, but it doesn't sacrifice atmosphere. But this is a terrible adaptation. The Disney art style does not fit the message. I was left with the feeling that the book was not ready for publishing, that I'd read something that was in the middle stages of development. There was an enormous typo that pretty much ruins the book a little over halfway through, which more or less spoiled the whole thing for me. Furthermore, of all the Rand novels to adapt to the graphic novel medium, why choose this one? It's brief already, and a mostly visual experience thanks to Rand's imagery. The purpose of adapting "classics" (for lack of a better term) is usually to make them more accessible to young people – Anthem is accessible enough as it is. Adapt Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, We The Living. While I recognize that creating a graphic novel is in itself an impressive accomplishment, this particular adaptation waters down the story's message instead of enhancing it.
Do You like book Ayn Rand's Anthem: The Graphic Novel (2011)?
I wasn't able to finish Anthem but I don't think this graphic novel did justice to Ayn Rand's book.
—Toby
Beautifully drawn but what an awful person Ayn Rand must've been. Feh on her.
—nuratirasyafiqah
Good quick read. Reminds us (me) of the importance of freedom.
—saku
