Looking Backwards by Edward Bellamy

This book is more a political statement than a story.  It tells of Julian West, who is put into a hypnotic sleep and due to a series of circumstances doesn't wake for 113 years until the year 2000.  He is still in Boston, but it is now a socialist utopian society.  A large part of the book consists of Julian West asking his guide, a local doctor, questions about the society and how it runs and the doctor answers these questions.  It's almost like a really long, fictional lecture about Bellamy's views.  There are some interesting parts, as Bellamy makes some fairly accurate predictions about consumerism and technology, but he is much more concerned with societal changes.  I suppose I am just too steeped in American capitalism and its ideas because this utopian society seemed unrealistic and impossible to me!  It isn't a book I would choose to read.