I got this book from the library and just finished reading this today and was feeling quite unsatisfied with it. You know, I like a good futuristic, grim, dystopia as much as the next person, and I’ll read anything with a dog in it, but, somehow, this book just wasn’t doing it for me. The characters keep alluding to past events that sound much more interesting and compelling to me than anything is this novel, so all along I kept thinking “I’d much rather be reading about all the stuff in the past than this boring stuff about the characters’ reflecting on and angsting over the past.” So, after finishing the book, I looked it up on Amazon and found out that, low and behold, The Story of General Dann etc. is a SEQUEL to an earlier novel. Aha! An explanation for my frustration. I read the wrong book first. I’m going to read the 1st book now and then rethink my opinion regarding this one.