false 296977 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024m/296977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024s/296977.jpg 296977 60 803 1888 Looking Backward (Signet Classics) total:599|5:70|4:161|3:236|2:92|1:40| 599 1926 929 98 48310 3.24 619 100 33753679 225325 296977 0451527631 9780451527639 68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024m/296977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024s/296977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296977.Looking_Backward 3.22 430 1888 2 3 false Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 24 14:48:06 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 05 08:28:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 22091768 563794 296977 0451527631 9780451527639 68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024m/296977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024s/296977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296977.Looking_Backward 3.22 599 1888 2 1 true Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 14:04:15 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 12:25:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 6992688 248667 753025 0486290387 9780486290386 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178047146m/753025.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178047146s/753025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/753025.Looking_Backward 3.02 43 </div>]]> 1888 2 2 false Tue Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 29 09:18:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 17 17:08:42 -0700 2008 Looking Backward tells the story of a Boston man who is placed in a mesmeric trance in 1887 and awakens in the year 2000. While he was entranced, the United States and much of the world has undergone major transformations, chiefly in economic and social orga...more...]]> 4492606 157248 753025 0486290387 9780486290386 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178047146m/753025.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178047146s/753025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/753025.Looking_Backward 3.22 599 </div>]]> 1888 2 1 false Mon Aug 13 14:50:26 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 05:02:06 -0800 2009
"In her face, pity contended in a sort of divine spite against the obstacles which reduced it to impotence. Womanly compassion surely ne...more...]]> 21297284 1128269 296977 0451527631 9780451527639 68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024m/296977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024s/296977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296977.Looking_Backward 3.22 599 1888 5 1 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1978 Tue Apr 29 20:44:15 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 20:50:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 67053306 232376 296977 0451527631 9780451527639 68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024m/296977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024s/296977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296977.Looking_Backward 3.22 599 1888 3 0 false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 05:23:42 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 05:24:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 9781879 651227 296977 0451527631 9780451527639 68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024m/296977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024s/296977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296977.Looking_Backward 3.22 599 1888 3 1 false Fri Nov 30 16:39:42 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 30 16:42:15 -0800 2007 While some of his more optimistic and Utopi...more...]]> 61474146 2255159 1159472 0451524128 9780451524126 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181502005m/1159472.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181502005s/1159472.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1159472.Looking_Backward_2000_1887 3.32 22 </div>]]> 1888 2 0 false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 00:29:41 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 00:29:41 -0700 2009
So, I read this out of historical interest, because it was a landmark work in American leftism, sold millions of copies in...more...]]> 44342945 82944 296977 0451527631 9780451527639 68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024m/296977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024s/296977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296977.Looking_Backward 3.22 599 1888 3 0 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 25 18:25:36 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 18:36:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 73629027 2809736 296977 0451527631 9780451527639 68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024m/296977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024s/296977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296977.Looking_Backward 3.22 599 1888 3 0 false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 09:22:58 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 09:45:17 -0700 2009
Okay book. I was expecting more but I guess for when it was written it was pretty cutting edge. I was amused that Bellamy did not even attemp...more...]]> 5309210 225928 296977 0451527631 9780451527639 68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024m/296977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024s/296977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296977.Looking_Backward 3.22 599 1888 3 1 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Aug 29 14:45:46 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 07:42:20 -0800 2009 41443524 643516 597675 0140390189 9780140390186 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176147540m/597675.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176147540s/597675.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/597675.Looking_Backward_2000_1887 3.15 26 </div>]]> 1888 0 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 31 15:17:17 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 15:47:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 70656530 977195 597675 0140390189 9780140390186 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176147540m/597675.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176147540s/597675.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/597675.Looking_Backward_2000_1887 3.22 599 </div>]]> 1888 3 0 false Wed Sep 09 17:01:56 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 17:10:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 51909201 565673 747709 1594084882 9781594084881 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177983433m/747709.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177983433s/747709.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/747709.Looking_Backward_20001887 0.0 0 1888 0 0 false Wed Apr 08 02:55:18 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 02:55:18 -0700 2009 http://nhw.livejournal.com/37852.html[return][return]It's always fun to read people's literary predictions of how the future will work out (apart from the obvious examples like 1984, go and check out the time-line in The Martian Chronicles, for instance). Bellamy's hero, Julian West (whose Dublin-ba...more...]]> 35570080 83144 296977 0451527631 9780451527639 68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024m/296977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024s/296977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296977.Looking_Backward 3.22 599 1888 3 0 false Fri Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 12:47:09 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 25 05:08:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 26293640 89780 296977 0451527631 9780451527639 68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024m/296977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024s/296977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296977.Looking_Backward 3.22 599 1888 5 0 false Fri Jul 04 09:19:18 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 09:19:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 20849001 271302 296977 0451527631 9780451527639 68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024m/296977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024s/296977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296977.Looking_Backward 3.22 599 1888 4 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 21:14:53 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 18:45:18 -0700 2008
It's also amazing to have a futuristic book with no new technology - clearly...more...]]> 4602447 84027 753025 0486290387 9780486290386 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178047146m/753025.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178047146s/753025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/753025.Looking_Backward 3.22 599 </div>]]> 1888 3 0 false Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1996 Wed Aug 15 13:40:47 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 13:45:31 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3051386 180398 296977 0451527631 9780451527639 68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024m/296977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024s/296977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296977.Looking_Backward 3.22 599 1888 3 0 false Fri Jul 13 20:02:13 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 20:08:05 -0700 2007
Bellamy's book Looking Backward invites the reader to find fault in the author's poor projections. It was very hard for me to read the book with...more...]]> 47576679 68030 296977 0451527631 9780451527639 68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024m/296977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024s/296977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296977.Looking_Backward 3.22 599 1888 3 0 false Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 05:37:14 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 19:40:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=296977