I have to confess I haven't started it. It seems like a hardly have time to read anymore, but maybe that is because we have been trying to finish our kitchen? Maybe we need to set a deadline for motivation purposes.
I was struck by how prescient the view of the future turned out to be, considering that the book was published about 1950. The book portrayed 2 kinds of people--those who interacted—-or, more accurately, were passively acted upon--by technology, and it seems that most people fit this category. The girl who still loved nature was the aberration, and the protagonist (can't remember his name and don't have the book here) was intrigued by the difference he saw in her. She was unlike anyone he knew, and in time, he wanted to be more like her.
He did not have a real relationship with his wife; it seemed that she was so numb that she couldn't relate to other human beings, except as it concerned "the family"--the people on the wall.
I have to confess I haven't started it. It seems like a hardly have time to read anymore, but maybe that is because we have been trying to finish our kitchen? Maybe we need to set a deadline for motivation purposes.
ReplyDeleteI finished it a few weeks ago. How about a deadline of the Ides of March? It's a quick read--very skinny.
ReplyDeleteI was struck by how prescient the view of the future turned out to be, considering that the book was published about 1950. The book portrayed 2 kinds of people--those who interacted—-or, more accurately, were passively acted upon--by technology, and it seems that most people fit this category. The girl who still loved nature was the aberration, and the protagonist (can't remember his name and don't have the book here) was intrigued by the difference he saw in her. She was unlike anyone he knew, and in time, he wanted to be more like her.
ReplyDeleteHe did not have a real relationship with his wife; it seemed that she was so numb that she couldn't relate to other human beings, except as it concerned "the family"--the people on the wall.
What did you all think?