I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!
#ABookADay2023
pickElton's 21st century answer to Orwell's 1984. As with 1984 it didn't hold back in its language or execution. Where the Thought Police once scared its citizens we no longer need them. We post everything about ourselves in social media anyway. To not be on Facebook is unusual. I would recommend this as a read but humanity doesn't come out looking great. #elton #hopefullynotforetelling #britishauthors #bitscary
The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
Oh, the scourges of our consumerist society! Elton nails it 😍 Caitlin Happymeal, Barbieheart, True Faith, Princess Lovebud, Sandra Dee, KitKat. #bestcharactername #booktober
The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
pickElton wrote this eight years ago, and we are moving closer than rather than further away from this type of society -it is a society that is sex and commercialism-obsessed, and citizens upload/stream all manner of intimate details in the name of empowerment (privacy is seen as dangerous). Scary, but like all Ben Eltons, worth reading and entertaining. (The narrator's daughter is named Caitlin Happymeal).
Blind Faith | 
