Ecotopia vs Freiheit: Which Should You Read?

Ecotopia Ernest Callenbach · 1975 ★★★★☆ 3.6 223 pages · ≈ 4 h 08 m · Challenging

“The Times-Post is at last able to announce that William Weston, our top international affairs reporter, will spend six weeks in Ecotopia, beginning next week.”

Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is a utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. The society described in the book is one of the first ecological utopias and was influential on the…

Freiheit Jonathan Franzen · 2010 ★★★★☆ 3.8 588 pages · ≈ 10 h 53 m · Moderate

“The news about Walter Berglund wasn't picked up locally—he and Patty had moved away to Washington two years earlier and meant nothing to St. Paul now—but the urban gentry of Ramsey Hill were not so loyal to their city as not to read the New York Times.”

Patty und Walter Berglund - Vorzeigeeltern und Umweltpioniere, fast schon ideale Nachbarn in ihrer selbst renovierten viktorianischen Villa in St. Paul - geben plötzlich Rätsel auf: Ihr halbwüchsiger Sohn zieht zur…