Ring Around the Sun by Clifford Simak

Jay Vickers thinks he's a normal guy in a quickly changing world--new 'forever' products (razors! cars!) are coming out that never need to be replaced or maintained. Big Industry is scared and tries to hire Jay to write something negative about the innovations, but he politely declines. Soon Industry has riled up the masses to riot and smash all the forever products--and sometimes their owners. Jay then escapes on a road trip to his childhood home and relearns a forgotten ability that changes his beliefs about himself and the future. 

RAtS had some nice scenes and lines, but I thought the underlying premise was thin... or at least the connections between novel ideas was thin. 

This was written in an older era (copyright 1952)... there was discrimination (of mutants--and users of their products) to the point of deadly violence. The only women were love interests of the main character men. Nothing very uplifting or inspirational about this society. The mutants were living in a utopian lifestyle, but their goal/solution to society's ills (view spoiler) is naively idealistic. I wouldn't dissuade one from reading this, but I won't recommend it either. I do like the author, so I'll probably read another book of his down the line. (Andrewcharles42, GoodReads)