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Why are reviewers not acknowledging the fact that entire premise is utterly ridiculous? A virus that can get past the immune system of every animal except human? The idea that ANYBODY would want to eat people just because they can’t get their morning bacon or cheeky Nandos, let alone enough people to make cannibalism government policy?
Brady Gorman Give me one widely regarded dystopian novel that actually makes sense
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Paul Beardsley 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, If This Goes On, A Clockwork Orange, We, The Time Machine, The Parable of the Sower, The Lathe of Heaven...
Feb 16, 2021 08:44AM · flag
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Brady Gorman Yeah and none of those make any more sense than this novel because those worlds weren’t created to make internal sense, they were created as parable.
Feb 17, 2021 10:13AM · flag
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Paul Beardsley They obviously make more sense.
Even The Hunger Games makes more sense.
Even Aesop’s fables, with their talking animals, and even actual parables make m ...more
Feb 17, 2021 12:18PM · flag
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by Agustina Bazterrica
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