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| Title | : | The Wanting Seed |
| Author | : | Anthony Burgess |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Norton Paperback Fiction |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | December 17th 1996 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 1962) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Classics |
Anthony Burgess
Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.71 | 5783 Users | 330 Reviews
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For the most part I like people, even though many of them suck. I am also convinced that the world grows a bit more stupid every day and that we slowly move away from any kind of social evolution. Sure, there's plenty of technological innovation, and dentistry is a far better experience today, but people don't seem to be improving. We still love screwing each other over, arguing about false issues, and murdering each other. Infrastructures are straining under corruption, graft, and greed. Congress is highly polarized and our "representatives" do little beyond hooking their friends up and padding the checking account. The worst part of it all is that stupid people just keep breeding. Anthony Burgess, perhaps best known for A Clockwork Orange (most likely you've seen the Kubrick film) had this book published in the same year (1962), and it fits nicely along other literary dystopic works such as 1984, Brave New World, and Anthem. However, as much as I loved it, it's probably not in the same weight class. The Wanting Seed begins in a world that is vastly overpopulated, and extreme measures have been institutionalized to handle it. People live in tiny box apartments, homosexuality is the social norm (and it's policed), and everyone eats a protein mush as there just aren't enough damn cows in the world to handle the load. As you wrap your head around this world (seems like it would be easier to just castrate people instead of implemented totalitarian fabulousness), Burgess throws a curve ball and suddenly society collapses. Yep, you're just reading along, dum dum dum dum dum, and hey, the world's ending. The citizens of the world respond to their overcrowding and repression by engaging in mass cannibalism, groovy sex parties, and general mayhem. No, this isn't a spoiler alert, it's on the damn back of the book, so no comments please. Then, as you would imagine, things level out a bit. There's this brainy back story to the book, that Burgess is essentially commenting on the cyclical nature of human history (which you'll also find in A Clockwork Orange and I'm sure in his other books as well). In short, people suck, they have always sucked, and they will continue to suck. So, why not read a good book and forget about it for a while?
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| Original Title: | The Wanting Seed |
| ISBN: | 0393315088 (ISBN13: 9780393315080) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | United Kingdom |
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Ratings: 3.71 From 5783 Users | 330 ReviewsRate Based On Books The Wanting Seed
Burgess has created a dystopia in which it's a sin to have sisters, a crime to have children, and a large ancestry can cost you your job. The story opens with Beatrice-Joanna Foxe receiving her "consolation" gift following the death of her infant son. She seeks solace in her brother-in-law Derek Foxe, whose career has grown thanks to his willingness to act gay. As spies and Beatrice-Joanna's husband learn of Derek's indiscretion, she is forced to head off to the Northern Provinces, whereThis is very much a future dystopia novel. It takes place in what was once the UK and follows the lives of a married couple, Tristram and Beatrice-Joanna. They are heterosexual couple living in a world where homosexuality and castration are heavily encouraged in order to curb the out of control world population. Breeding is shunned, a social faux pas. As poor crops and government law begin to come down on the people, they change to answer in strange and frightening ways.It's an interesting take
This novel was...interesting. I was anle to become fully immersed in the story and i enjoyed the take on the dystopian future. The future shown i believe is very realistic but highly unlikely. The characters were aweful with the exception of Shonny in my opinion. This was an easy read because of its great storytelling.
Loved this book. Hilarious and energetic. Comes at you like a psychedelic rock song. I found the story pretty clever but really loved Burgess' sense of apocalypse, as if he transcribed images from Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights. I loved Tristram's trek thru degenerating England, the slow sprawl of history, moving from extreme police states on opposite poles of the structure.Yes, the love story was clumsy, but t served the purpose of showing this world's dichotomy and hypocrisy, his wife
Well .... I'll be Damned.This was Disturbing, weird, darkly humorous and GOOD ! Hell !! people are getting canned and eaten cause it would be such a waste otherwise !!!!! who am I kidding I loved this shit XDIt's really entertaining. It's got that 1984 feel to it, with a bit more WTF factor. The language in here is not so strange as much as it was sort of hard. I found myself reaching for the dictionary more than once. I HATED the characters. Non of them deserved any kind of sympathy specially
A dystopic satire set in a future in which an overbearing government tries to deal with horrendous population growth. The government obsesses about whether it can feed the vast population. As a means of doing so doctor's hasten the deaths of the sick whose corpses are turned into fertilizer. As until recently in China, fertile couples are allowed only one child. London has grown so wildly that it has reached its south and east-most shores. It can only grow north and west now. Soon it will
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