The Blind Pig
by
Elizabeth Dougherty (Goodreads Author)
Journalist Angela Anselm investigates a suspicious death in a late 21st century speakeasy, where the moonshine of the times is garlic mash rather than sour mash. She uncovers a conspiracy that could topple the NArc, the government system that keeps everybody healthy with its prescribed, engineered nutrition. How much will she risk to expose the truth?
Paperback, 314 pages
Published
May 21st 2010
by School Street Books
(first published April 4th 2010)
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Set in the near future, journalist Angela Anselm writes an online nutrition column that readers follow from around the world. In a dystopian world of a futuristic Boston metropolis, the NArc (Nutritional Architecture System) is a government operated organization that molecularly assembles every meal to meet each individuals personal nutrition needs based on their current health status. People eating the NArc system food have nanobot computer chips in their wrists to be scanned before each meal i...more
I won this book in a Goodreads First Reads Giveaway.
Have you ever wondered how safe your food really is? Where it comes from? What is being added to your food? In the year 2063, meals are specially synthesized to fit each individual’s personal nutritional needs. Nutrition, not taste or texture, is the key.
In a society plagued by a severe lack of resources, global warming, pollution, and multiple food recalls, the NArc (Nutritional Architecture System) provides its residents ...more
Have you ever wondered how safe your food really is? Where it comes from? What is being added to your food? In the year 2063, meals are specially synthesized to fit each individual’s personal nutritional needs. Nutrition, not taste or texture, is the key.
In a society plagued by a severe lack of resources, global warming, pollution, and multiple food recalls, the NArc (Nutritional Architecture System) provides its residents ...more
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Author is a local author and we were lucky to have discussed the book with her at our November bookclub meeting. This is her first book and is a futuristic book where the government is now in charge of people's nutrition and health and what they eat. They have the Cheaters groups, people who secretly eat "Junk Food". The book is based on a reporter trying to figure out why a woman died without cheating on junk food...and the plot has a nice twist to the story.
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Dougherty brilliantly conceives of a future without real food, only NArc-engineered products, such as Neermeat, which keep everyone healthy and are a solution to the unsustainable agriculture of the past.
In a desperate attempt to revive her flailing journalism career, Angela Anselm delves into a food-related death that leads her deep into the underworld of real food-eating rebels and reveals the sinister side of the NArc.
This book is written as a mystery thriller that hu...more
In a desperate attempt to revive her flailing journalism career, Angela Anselm delves into a food-related death that leads her deep into the underworld of real food-eating rebels and reveals the sinister side of the NArc.
This book is written as a mystery thriller that hu...more
Imagine a world free of chronic diseases like obesity and diabetes, and maybe even cancers. A place where each ready to eat meal is nutritionally tailored for every individual's needs. Sounds great until journalist Angela Anslem discovers the NArc (Nutritional Architecture System), the system attributed to peoples good health in 2063, might not be doing everything it claims.
As Angela digs to uncover the mystery behind the NArc, readers are introduced to an underground that hasn't co...more
As Angela digs to uncover the mystery behind the NArc, readers are introduced to an underground that hasn't co...more
I got this book because I met the author at a local event about the future of food and she came up to me afterward. Also it was 99 cents for the Kindle version. It was an interesting story and concept. I wasn't blown away and I didn't really get to know the characters as deeply as I would have liked. But a good idea.
The concept was great, and the author took a lot of care in constructing her futuristic world. Her writing style is very amateur, though, and took away from the story. It was a good story, but she doesn't have the writing skill to build suspense, create complex characters and write dialog, so what could have been a wonderful novel in the spirit of Oryx and Crake and The Sparrow didn't make it.
I received this book through a giveaway on goodreads. I really enjoyed this book. It was definitely thought provoking. I would be interested to read more from this author.
When I first started with the site, I explored and found the giveaway section. I entered and look I won this book.
It sat on the shelf for a little while, Sorry to the Author.
I really enjoyed this book, and have bought another copy for a Christmas present
It sat on the shelf for a little while, Sorry to the Author.
I really enjoyed this book, and have bought another copy for a Christmas present
I am currently reading this book which I won from a Goodreads First Reads Giveaway. I will write a review on completion.
Ok, so maybe this isn't "quite" 5 stars, but I loved it, so I'm going with 5.
This book was written for someone like me, so I'm not sure how someone who isn't into the whole locavore, anti-GMO scene might take it. As propoganda? I don't know. I thought it was a great story, and I love dystopian future and food issues, so this was great for me.
This book was written for someone like me, so I'm not sure how someone who isn't into the whole locavore, anti-GMO scene might take it. As propoganda? I don't know. I thought it was a great story, and I love dystopian future and food issues, so this was great for me.
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