How she found her way into his world, I still dont' understand, and that's probably a book worth writing. The story itself is a gripping tale about one of the last girls, Evaline, to have been raised by her parents withing the Republic previously known as the USA. The distopian future seems to be happening very soon in the future maybe? The explanation of how things got just so f'n bad in such a short amount of time was not well explained, probably because it wouldn't have held up.
Set it years in the future and we'd probably be OK. Evaline tries to learn about the "before times' but its not really legal to learn about it. She doesn't get to choose her mate, she doesn't get to have electricity, energy must be produced by here walking an energy board, and insted of Jetsonmobiles like the free market would give us, or the autobohn that state capitalism has given us, transport is done via a "Bus Box" which is basically a stage coach pulled by men like her father instead of horses, because animals are more important than people.
Even if this work is unbelievable the characters are good and worth reading for them alone. It is also worth reading for any liberal or leftists who actually wants to understand what their positions sound like to a conservative. Mirjana Rakic.
I loved it and hated it. Very well written. Engaging, gripping, and I would say even enlightening to a scary degree. That's just it. With what's happening in our current social, economic and political climate it's uncomfortably close to reality for it being a fictional novel and that is very unsettling.
But this is a very, very good read. Great book. I strongly recommend. Terry Dunson. Cherye Elliott. This book is a YA young adult book based on the United Nations mission statement during the 's. Move everyone into small urban areas so the rest of the nation feeds the world. But the author's took the calmer version so it wouldn't scare TBE population. Enjoyed the read. Good storyline. This book was available in the browsing area of the library instead of the book I wanted to read.
So, knowing that it was likely to be terribly insipid, I undertook its reading. My prediction was fully validated. Perhaps my willingness to have read this book indicates some terrible self-loathing anti-intellectualism for which I should seek immediate psychological treatment. If someone had made me read this, I would report it to the police. Pretty descent dystopia novel about a not too far away future where life mimics the totalitarian state of The Republic.
A quick read shouldn't take more than a day or two. Emmaline is devastated when her mother is taken away by the authorities. She is left living with Jeremy, a greasy haired, insolent teen who is her assigned partner with whom she is supposed to have a child. Set in the former US in a dystopian near future, when Emmaline was small the population was rounded up and sent to live in compounds so that nature could be preserved. Emmaline, whose assigned job is to walk an energy producing board for hours each day, is relieved that Jeremy shows no interest in her and has refused to touch her.
She misses her kind first partner, George, who disappeared along with her father, and their baby that was taken from her at birth to be raised with all other babies and children under Fertile individuals are paired according to the whims of the authorities. In the weeks following her mother's disappearance, she comes to know David, a night guardian who starts giving her eggs to supplement her diet, and John, a friend of her parents she hadn't met before who sneaks by at night to talk with her.
Gradually, Emmaline begins to question the ways of the authorities in ways beyond what her mother implied, and gradually comes to the unsettling discovery that not only is everyone not really equal, but that when people disappear it's much more dreadful than she had allowed herself to realize.
This book is a fictional look at what could happen if the UN's Agenda 21 were to be taken to the extreme. I gave it 5 stars not so much for the politics of it, but because it was well written, kept me on the edge of my seat, got me interested in Emmaline and provoked deep thought. If you're not familiar with Agenda 21, I will quote from the publication itself: Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment.
This is a short dystopian novel which takes Agenda 21 to it's imagined worst case scenario of implementation in which humans are relegated to small settlements in order to minimize the impact of humans on the environment.
People are assigned sections, mates and work, including a quota of energy production. Food and water is rationed. There are no individual rights and people who do not meet the standard and people who question the system, disappear. Writing Style: 4. Beck; while The Overton Window was good, this one was betterTheme: 5. If we were to imagine what the United States might look like if our current form of government takes the wrong fork in the road, then this story is the mirror we should look into.
The characters we meet are personable and people we can identify with. The pace of the story is quick and leaves the reader anxious to turn the next page. I read this book in just under two days. In the end we find our characters making a break from their narrow lives. Not terrific but better than I expected. While it is obvious which side of the political lines this guy comes from, I though that whole thing was just a little bit over the top as far as what our country may look like in the future.
I feel like I need to preface this by saying I don't idolize Glenn Beck. I do like him, I watch his show, listen to the radio show, etc I read this book at the urging of a friend.
I was reluctant to read it because, honestly, I'm reluctant to read any celebrity book. Especially this one, where he outright bought the rights from someone else so he could slap his name on it. It just seems disingenuous to me. Ignoring any Glenn Beck associations, this wasn't a bad book, but neither was it great.
As others have said, it seems like a poorly executed mash-up of The Hunger Games and Though marketed as an adult book and I suppose it would have to be , I really feel this book belongs in the YA section. The storyline had potential, but I felt like the author took it too far, out of the realm of possibility. However, only Emilio and one other prisoner were still around when he regained consciousness. The Second Seal is opened and an impending terrorist attack threatens to kill off a large swath of the global population.
Josh and Emilio have captured one of the terrorists. Meanwhile, back at the compound, Stephanie, Micah, and the others prepare to shelter in place in case the worst happens. Lucius Alexander knows better than to let a good crisis go to waste. Just a generation ago this place was called America. Now, after the worldwide implementation of UN-lead program called Agenda 21, it's simply known as the 'Republic'. There is no president.
No congress. No Supreme Court. No freedom. Citizens have two primary goals in the new Republic: to create clean energy and to create new human life. This bleak and barren existence is all that year-old Emmeline has ever known. She dutifully walks her energy board daily and accepts all male pairings assigned to her by the Authorities. Like most citizens, she keeps her head down and her eyes closed. Woken up to the harsh reality of her life and her family's future inside the Republic, Emmeline begins to search for the truth.
Why are all citizens confined to ubiquitous concrete living spaces? Why are Compounds guarded by Gatekeepers who track all movements? Why are food, water and energy rationed so strictly? And, most important, why are babies taken from their mothers at birth? As Emmeline begins to understand the true objectives of Agenda 21, she realizes that she is up against far more than she ever thought.
With the Authorities closing in, and nowhere to run, Emmeline embarks on an audacious plan to save her family and expose the Republic - but is she already too late? Would you listen to Agenda 21 again? No, I am not likely to forget any of it anytime soon. You are slowly drawn into the lead character and her circumstances. I am a senior male, yet the empathy I came to feel, for a teen girl, a survivor, heroic in a way few understand, is deep and real.
What other book might you compare Agenda 21 to and why? As an accomplished an author, not yet. A grasp of the unholy and real dangers of things set in motion in our time?
Most definitely. How does this one compare? No, I prefer Charles Laughton and an flat powerful voice, but she also drew me in. Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Not that kind of book, although I almost cheered at the end. It will stay with you, to be mulled over, savored perhaps. Any additional comments? An avid reader for fifty years, I miss the written word. Listening is an acquired taste. After a decade of trying, I finished a book at last, this one. Not the best writing or story, but it's the message that needs to be heard by every American.
Never trust the power This is an absolute favorite of mine. This is a sad, story but it also is very good one. You never now what coming next. This book reminds me of the hunger games series and divergent series. It is very good so you should really read it. I've heard this book marketed as the "" of the new millennium. And I make that statement as someone who regards "" as one of my all time favorite books.
While Beck's skill at novel writing has definitely improved since "Overton Window", this story just doesn't quite "make it.
It was to the point of becoming predictable - and that is not a good thing. The main character, which we understand to be a young woman, is rendered to be a bit too immature given her harsh living conditions to be believable. Imagine you took a 17 year old spoiled American mall rat and dumped her in the middle of a dystopian nightmare which, she supposedly grew-up in.
Doesn't really work, does it? The atmospherics of the "compound" and the eco-Nazi lifestyle of the citizens was developed much better than most of the characters, and one can almost see and feel what life would be like living under such conditions. Moreover, because this story is essentially an extrapolated trajectory of the hopes and aspirations of the more extreme elements of the "Green" movement, it provides an additional source of realism and does a decent job of communicating its primary warnings.
The story is very short, which doesn't have to be a bad thing, but in this case I don't feel that it works. Did the authors run out of plot ideas, or are we simply being setup for a serialized story? Whatever the reason, I came away feeling a bit "jipped" - not so much because I needed a neatly packaged closure to the story, but because I felt it failed somehow to deliver that essential existential "kick" that the " of the new millennium" should.
I'd say Agenda 21 is a decent read with a very important and timely message. If you are curious to understand what the real Agenda 21 is and how it could potentially play out into the future, this isn't a half bad introduction and it is at least, entertaining and not dry. It may seem far-fetched until you watch the evening news. Then you wonder how they could've gone so far already. The UN must be stopped on agenda This story points out the flaws of a socialist agenda in graphic detail.
This is a chilling if somewhat paranoid tale of the future. As a fictional story it was a very good listen. The ending was somewhat disappointing, and left me wanting more. Maybe there is a sequel.
While I don't see the worst happening and I don't think the author does either , as a child of the early fifties the current erosion of freedoms does parallel what the book portends. It was so good we also got the Kindle version. First time getting both versions of a book. If you could sum up Agenda 21 in three words, what would they be? What was one of the most memorable moments of Agenda 21?
Dash across the forbidden center stage. Which scene was your favorite? The realization that there were potential free people outside the fence fending for themselves but still free. A foreign concept to the younger ones in the prison colonies. I was one that already knew fully about the evil of the agenda 21 project before this was written. I had my own ideas what the extreme could look like and frankly, I think it will end up just as bad if not worse.
We are going here I just hope I am dead before it gets too far. It is secretly found now in almost every community planning commission. It may be called Agenda 21 or a number of different names.
A true sign it is starting is the high density neighborhood. The goal being to force all people into high rise, tightly squeezed housing area. You will not be driving any longer. Stores, business, and homes will be tightly woven into the area to stop car ownership and promote walking only. Animals will acquire "rights" that will be very powerful. There will be huge human free zones, similar to the ones set up for marine right now, that will be positively of limits to humans.
Your food, your activity, and health will be judged by government panels and dealt with if out of "their normal". Don't think so I feel very sorry you will have to live this way. I will never let them do this to me. By the way, this is only the mild part of the Agenda 21 plan. It gets more hideous as they gain more control over the people. Again, it not a theory or a conspiracy, they are starting to implement this across our country and around the world.
Is there anything you would change about this book? Clearly there's a sequel in the works, but I kind of resented having the cliff-hanger come where it does.
I felt there was no pay-off for having read all the way to the end. Which character — as performed by January LaVoy — was your favorite? If this book were a movie would you go see it?
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