56%. This book, while being a roller coaster, and a very cynical and depressing look on what our future could be, opened up opportunities for books such as The Hunger Games and the Divergent series to become such a success. 
 Positives: 
 1. I really enjoyed that the protagonist wasn't a teenage girl leading some sort of rebellion. (view spoiler)[While they were involved in some sort of rebellion, it wasn't sugar-coated as if the rebellion would make a difference, and there was no "Chosen One".(view spoiler)[ 
 2. Because of the cynical outlook on the whole book, it seemed like a much more realistic example of how people would actually act. I don't know about you, but I would probably be the last one to lead any sort of rebellion, and the story takes this into account and because of that, is very realistic. 
 3. The last fifty pages of the book. While confusing on why there was this sort of ritual for people that had committed a crime in their thoughts, was incredibly raw and I found it both interesting and this was when the characters kind of clicked with their humanity and connectivity to readers. The torture that they each went through was intensive, and I did feel bad for them-as hollow as the characters were, it's never fun to see someone tortured. What sold the characters to me was the aspect where the two protagonists realized that the most important thing was to not betray each other. While in the end, they did, it was the priorities aspect that sold the relationship to me in the relationship only used for sex. 
 Negatives: 
 1. The characters in the book were very hard to connect to. It seemed like they were just going about their daily lives but without any sort of motivation. Even after two main characters began to have a relationship, they didn't develop any sort of humanity. 
 2. More specifically with the characters, I had a huge problem with the protagonist. (view spoiler)[ At the beginning of the story, when he first meets his love interest, he thinks that she's following him (get over yourself) and imagines her in a condescending and sexist light. (view spoiler)[ While I understand that this book was written in the 1950's, shouldn't there be some sort of equality in this futuristic world? I also had a problem with his motivation. He was extremely cynical, but didn't seem to have any sort of redeeming quality or humanity whatsoever. He was a pawn for the system without ever trying to fight back in a way that mattered. 
 3. The Mind Reading System. I found it incredibly stupid to include this, and it didn't seem logical to the plot whatsoever. Because there is so much to play with in the way of reading minds, but no structure to it other than "they're always watching you" it seemed preposterous to assume that the thousands < /b> of times the protagonist had any sort of rebellious thought, the Mind Readers didn't catch him. 
 4. The whole "Anti-Sex League" that young people were having. This also seemed very illogical to me, as without any sort of sexual relationship with your husband/wife, there will be no offspring to carry on the legacy. It makes even less sense that such young people would be protesting for this, as they're the ones that were recently conceived. While it may be an outlet for them to be angsty against their parents, it just didn't seem logical that the youngest people would be the ones protesting against sex. (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]