This is definitely a thought-provoking book, especially given the current events of the day as I was reading it, with much of the nation in debate over whether or not we should get involved with the chemical weapons being used in Syria. Should we go to war? Why does our government want us to engage on another front, when we are not yet out of Iraq and Afghanistan? 
 This book certainly makes you take a look at social structure, power and oppression, and human dignity in new ways. And also relativism vs. objective truth. Is there objective truth? Or is truth just what we make it to be and what we collectively decide to believe? 
 Certainly, this book *deserves* five stars; however, I tend to rate as much on my personal emotional attachment or attraction to a book (how much I will re-read it with eager glee), as much as on the technical/intellectual merits of the book itself. 
 I am reading this for a book club, and was kind of surprised to have found it on the list for forbidden/banned books. I know it was one of the "to-read" books in high school.... :)