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This Perfect Day - Ira Levin
This Perfect Day
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By the author of Rosemary's Baby, a horrifying journey into a future only Ira Levin could imagineConsidered one of the great dystopian novels-alongside Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World-Ira Levin's frightening glimpse into the future continues to fascinate... show more
By the author of Rosemary's Baby, a horrifying journey into a future only Ira Levin could imagineConsidered one of the great dystopian novels-alongside Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World-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 will-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 novels.?
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9781453217610 (1453217614)
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Pages no: 318
Edition language: English
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Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it
3.0 This Perfect Day
I tell people I don't like dystopias, then I go and read them again and again. What can I say? There are a lot of good ones--including this one, even if it's not a great one. Atwood of A Handmaid's Tale is the strongest living prose stylist I've read. Ayn Rand's Anthem (don't sneer) is almost a pros...
Reading a Thousand Lives
Reading a Thousand Lives rated it
5.0 This Perfect Day
This should probably be the dystopia classic, it's a lot more gripping than 1984. Plus, there's something more disturbing about being content with your dystopia instead of fearing it--like it is here and in Brave New World. They have a lot of similarities, but the plot overall is entirely different....
veeral
veeral rated it
If you liked 1984, then you will love this. That's all you need to know, really!
Gregor Xane
Gregor Xane rated it
2.0 This Perfect Day
Entertaining. If 2.5 stars were an option, that's what this would get.
Manny Rayner's book reviews
Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it
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Christ, Marx, Wood and WeiLed us to this perfect dayMarx, Wood, Wei and ChristAll but Marx were sacrificedWood, Wei, Christ and MarxGave us lovely schools and parksWei, Christ, Marx and WoodMade us humble, made us good.- dystopian future world child's bouncing song
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