Pegged as the more poetic version of Plato's Republic, this book fails to ever come into its own by escaping the stereotypes of its author's time period. More, despite being a revolutionary in his vision of what a society could be (and in recognizing the effects economic discrimination has on crime at a time where God was still blamed for misbehavior), still backs significant prejudices. His Utopia may be a land free of racism and religious persecution, but so too is it a land of open sexism and age-ism where women and children are the chattle of their husbands and fathers. Because More was such a revolutionary, I cannot excuse his flagrant chauvanism by citing the contemporary thought. Still, living in war times as we are, I found the section on how the Utopians conduct themselves as warriors to be very interesting... That chapter, at least, didn't have me burning like the urine of a herpes victim...