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What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Futuristic book; boy realises everyone is being controlled/ programmed by there mind
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Becky, do you remember the cover?Was it new when you read it?
Other characters, villains, sidekicks?
What was the setting? Big city, post apocalyptic, Mars, etc?
Tab wrote: "Becky, do you remember the cover?Was it new when you read it?
Other characters, villains, sidekicks?
What was the setting? Big city, post apocalyptic, Mars, etc?"
I think it was a year or two old when we read it and i seem to think the cover was black with maybe a eye on the front i think i remember something about an eye.
Other characters there was another boy in it his friend i imagine.
I think it was set in a futuristic big city im sure he worked out that the radios and schools and thoughts was all programmed into them.
Sounds to me like Pam Bachorz's "Candor", but i highly doubt that that's your book... Sorry.
Not quite a perfect match, but maybe This Perfect Day. It's control by drugs mainly, but I can't remember if there is some sort of signal too. I thought this is a classic book that might be read in a school.
There's a short story that covers this theme - "A Bowl of Biskies Makes a Growing Boy" by Raymond F. Jones. I first read it in The Other Side of Tomorrow by Roger Elwood. The story is about how a young man discovers additives in his food, along with subliminal signals in the media are controlling the population.
There's another story in the same anthology - "Examination Day" by Gordon Eklund - that has similar themes.
Andy Phillips wrote: "Not quite a perfect match, but maybe This Perfect Day. It's control by drugs mainly, but I can't remember if there is some sort of signal too. I thought this is a classic book that mi..."no, there wasn't anything like radio control, but everything was ostensibly run by a giant computer, and the mc became involved in a rebellion to destroy it. Excellent book!
Becky, if none of the above are it, was the book required reading for the class? Might it be on a syllabus list online?
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I was about this boy who realises everyone is being controlled by things like the radios and the government type people are controlling them.
Sadly this is all i can remember :(