News from Nowhere - William Morris

I am reading incredibly slowly at the moment. The first half of this book went very quickly but then the 2nd half took another week to finish. It was more of an essay on the ideal state of the world than a novel but it was interesting nonetheless. Everything so focused on the arts and crafs movement, everyone a skilled artisan and everything made to be lovely. Ironically I thought the funniest part of the book was when the were discussing the differences between the sexes and the old man said how they were now completely equal, except of course there were some things that women particularly enjoyed because they suited thier nature, these things being serving men, keeping a home and having children!

It was odd to read about a communist utopia written before their had been any communist revolutions. I felt William Morris had rather a simplistic view of human nature and desires. But they did make for an interesting book. I think this is actually a book that I'm interested in going and reading some criticism about as I'd like to know how other people interpreted it.