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I don't see how. It's a book about a dude trying to get his dick wet, and ultimately both he and his girlfriend sell each other out when they're tortured. The themes are "totalitarianism and torture is bad." The characters are flat and uninteresting, as is the world.

Yes, I've heard people make the argument that it's written that way to reflect the dystopian reality of it all, and that's fine. It's still a shit story.

Besides, given that the U.S. is now facing that same reality and pushing it onto the rest of us, I don't think the message the book tried to convey was conveyed particularly effectively.

Worth noting is that the book doesn't deal with the topic of "oops, you're in an authoritarian fascist dystopia, how do you deal with it."

The Hunger Games does, though. The solution there is to kill the fascists.