Great book with well developed characters. It may be too prescient for comfort if the country does not rein in the out of control welfare spending. This country spends more than $1.3 TRILLION a year on welfare, the single largest use of income taxes by a huge margin. The next largest use of income taxes is for interest payments on debt incurred for welfare.
If this does not change, then this book is probably an optimistic view of this country’s future.
Also, some people try to denigrate the book by saying it is very religious but they are just trying to keep the non-devout from reading it and maybe realizing this book foretells our future if spending is not checked. I am an atheist and I was not offended since the references to religion comprise less than 1% of the text.