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Lädt ... This Perfect Day: Introduction by Jonathan Trigell (Tom Thorne Novels) (Original 1970; 2014. Auflage)von Ira Levin (Autor)
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 Lukerik | Mar 29, 2023 |   Natt90 | Jan 20, 2023 | This Perfect Day by Ira Levin DNF. I am soo sorry to give an Ira Levin book a 2. I LOVE Levin . I feel tempted to change my rating. SPOILERS: It did not FEEL like a Levin book though. I was baffled reading this. And I should not say I did not finish this. I did. But with the help of alot of skimming. The book was very dry. I could not get involved and I not only love Levin I love Dystopian..which makes me wonder If I missed something. The rape scene turned me off as I am sure it did many. I was disturbed by the roles in society women played here. But none of those reasons justify a 2 rating. All I c an say is I tried on many occasions to read this and the dryness of the writing and slowness of the pacing made my eyes get heavy. I know people who love this book. I just could not get nor stay involved. I still recommend it because I looked at some reviews and this really seems one that has a great array of opinons. Plus I still love 90 percent of Levin's work. Just not this book (  ) Thebeautifulsea | Aug 5, 2022 | This is sort of a spoiler ↓↓↓ I pictured the Programmers as the Walton Family and the folks on Majorca looking a lot like the people who go to Walmart. (  ) rabbit-stew | Jun 26, 2022 | ) skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 |
A futuristic society run entirely by computer, and an individual's rebellion against it. In de toekomst wordt de wereld bestuurd door een computer die een in bepaalde opzichten ideale maatschappij heeft gecreëerd (geen honger, rassendiscriminatie e.d.) waarin echter alle persoonlijke vrijheid verdwenen is. De hoofdpersoon komt in verzet, vlucht naar een eiland, vindt daar medestanders, etc. met andere woorden: een traditionele anti-utopie, gebaseerd op het (m.i. valse) dilemma tussen de ideale staat en de persoonlijke vrijheid. Huxley en Orwell, wier invloed diudelijk is, zijn beter, maar omgekeerd is Levin weer veel beter dan de doorsnee-sf. Het boek is overigens uitgebracht als een 'thriller', waarschijnlijk om de niet-sf-lezer niet af te schrikken. Vrij kleine druk. Ist enthalten inAuszeichnungen
Fiction.
Science Fiction.
HTML: By the author of Rosemary's Baby, a horrifying journey into a future only Ira Levin could imagine Considered one of the great dystopian novelsâ??alongside Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's A Brave New Worldâ??Ira Levin's frightening glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers even forty years after publication. The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called "The Family." The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. Even the basic facts of nature are subject to the UniComp's willâ??men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night. With a vision as frightening as any in the history of the science fiction genre, This Perfect Day is one of Ira Levin's most haunting nov Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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futuristic drugged society
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Basically, people in the past (our future) have programmed a computer to control the entire population through a combination of drugs, and genetic and social engineering. Basically condemning their own descendents to a half lived life and the end of which they are killed.
There’s a great twist at the end which luckily I’d managed to forgot in the thirty years since I last read it. Be careful what you read about it before starting. (