Oh man. I still haven't reviewed this book? I finished it like, I don't know, a super long time ago. I barely remember what it was about. I tend to have the problem, which is why I started reviewing books in the first place. Even if some of my reviews have nothing to do with the book I'm supposed to be reviewing. It's just that I get bored saying stuff like 'character x should have been more consistent if the author wanted us to believe plot point Y hinged on his love of cotton candy and racism.' 
 Or whatever. 
 So, instead, I write about something else. Sometimes. Look my point is (and I'm starting to think I don't have one, but IF I did...) that I really shouldn't be waiting this long to write something down regarding my thoughts about a book. Which is why I don't go back and review old books that I loved when I read them. I remember the love, but not where I was at when I read them. Was I reading it during that stage in my life when I was obsessed with self-sealing stem bolts, and a novel I just read happened to be about a stem bolt technician or something. 
 So, this book, look, it was fine. It's 65 years old and it shows. I hate reviewing old books because I am not as forgiving of their modern failings due to the cultural norms when they were created. So, going back more than 20 years is a crapshoot, going back more than 40 is probably going to be a disappointment. This book is old and the narrator is all over the place, describing characters in detail that never actually appear in the book, having a couple fall madly in love after barely more than a moment's meeting, and all these experimental communities that pop up in the aftermath of the great apocalypse. 
 I'm not saying that all those things feel contrived, because by its very nature, a novel IS contrived. It's sort of the point. But in my opinion, the events of this book aren't set up and executed in a manner that a modern reader would expect. 
 Again, if it were 1951 and I was reading this, I'm sure I'd be amazed. But I'm one of those lame-o's that can't forgive a piece of work for being old. 
 Oh, I got to say, I have read some old stuff that doesn't feel as dated to me as this one does, so, I'm not saying everything old sucks, just most stuff.