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Carregando... After the Plaguede Jean Ure
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. One of my first post-apocalyptic novels. Bless. While Plague was a standard everyone-is-dead-what-do-we-do kind of novel, this is more of a thought experiment: what if the survivors created an apparently normal, functioning community, except all the men were castrated. And then an intact male from another colony stumbles upon their community. It's pretty out there, as far as concepts go.And it's certainly thought-provoking, because while I'm against any kind of mutilation being dictated on any subset of the population... as a woman, I know which community sounds more appealing to live in.(I also wanted more details about their community. Tell me more about the shared housing! Are all the women lesbians? Do they farm? Explore? Do they make clothes? How have they repaired their buildings? And furnishings?) An interesting book that could have been twice as long and still fascinated me. This book, the second in the plague trilogy, begins some time after the plague has occured. We learn that the virus was in fact airborn and most of the world perished in the epidemic. It is stated that the plague may have been the result of germ warfare, but this can't be confirmed. A grandchild of Fran and Shahid, Daniel, wants to seek out London to see what it is like now. He has learned about it from Fran's journal. When he gets there he finds a civilization where women rule and men are castrated and carefully kept under control. He meets April, who is a member of this community, and both learn that what they know about the way they live may not be the truth. Daniel's community is a fairly primitive place; April's is not. However, April is taught that there is little good in men and without their community measures they would be barely civilized brutes. Both are seen as imperfect places. The only thing that is established in them that is not ambigous is the fact April lives in a vegetarian community, and that is the only thing the author marks as clearly superior. She has a male friend, David, and with her interactions with Daniel she realizes that perhaps she does not know the entire truth. While Daniel and April both remain in the places they grew up, they are both changed and this is the set-up for the final book. The book is careful to point out the wrong aspects of April's community; despite what many claim, it is not portrayed as a paradise. Both of the ways of living feel like they could have easily developed after a holocaust such as the plague, While drastically different than the first book, it is also well worth reading. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sériePlague (2)
When Daniel is knocked unconscious, he wakes to see April and Meta staring at him as if he was a creature from outer space. Croydon has become an ultra feminist community and women hold power. This is the sequel to Plague 99. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999AvaliaçãoMédia:
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A hundred years after the great plague wiped out nearly all of humanity, people live in small isolated communities. Daniel travels from Cornwall to London to try and find his great-grandmother's diary. But the main thing he finds is April Harriet's community.
I love the bold Young Adult 'this world doesn't need to make sense, we can just play with Big Ideas' of this book. I love the angry feminist 'all men are so terrible the only way to survive is to
I like the way it skirts round the possibility of a very predictable 'boy meets girl, they fall in love across the worlds and then run off into the sunset' plot, but makes it all a bit more complicated than that.
And I love all the characters. Even if they are in some lights very young adult and two dimensional, they are so very human and loveable. April, red headed and impulsive and passionate. David,
Or maybe I just love it because years ago I read it at exactly the right age? But I do. ( )