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May 28, 2011 02:09PM
I've just read the first 40 pages - and so far this ranks right up there with the best of Wells.
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This is one of the most exciting books I've ever read, told at a break-neck pace. When Wells is on his game, there is no one better.
Watching 24 hours cables news shows - it does rather seem "babble machine" is the correct term.
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Thank you very much for choosing When the Sleeper Wakes. I am trying to get my hands on a copy so that I can follow the discussion you launched.
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Douglas in South Carolina
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Of all his prophesies, the most damning is that society remains largely unaltered. For all of man’s technological advances, we still suffer under an ever widening gulf of financial disparity; are the slaves of the Labor Company any different than political prisoners in China making our athletic shoes, or the migrant farm workers in the USA?! It’s a horrible blot on civilization [my dad would say "syphilisation"] that the filthy rich have unfettered influence in Washington, and social programs designed to enrich the lives of the citizen taxpayers (i.e. public education, affordable health care, the arts and environmental protections) are vilified and demonized, while corporate welfare and tax loop holes for multinational conglomerates are championed. It's already 112 years since this was published and the more things change the more they stay the same; H. G. may as well have been writing about 2011.
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