tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932752907198933265.post4785927315967804855..comments2023-11-02T05:19:15.176-07:00Comments on The Misread City: Overpopulation and Robert SilverbergScott Timberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02018827087884225579noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932752907198933265.post-68854966902629295772010-04-04T11:57:28.059-07:002010-04-04T11:57:28.059-07:00I finally got around to reading The World Inside. ...I finally got around to reading <em>The World Inside.</em> It's an interesting novel. I'm glad that you prompted me to read it.<br />My take on it is that humanity, in its endless adaptibility, will produce just about as many malcontents under one set of conditions as it will under any other. This story centers on a super-achiever who finds that status, celebrity, and professional success, combined with a good home life aren't enough. We see his kind around us now. He's kind of an "urbmon Tiger Woods," perhaps?Rodakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00077919085157653816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932752907198933265.post-12561246460031816262010-03-13T07:59:51.019-08:002010-03-13T07:59:51.019-08:00I should mention that I'm also reading Red Mar...I should mention that I'm also reading <em>Red Mars</em>, which I highly recommend to anybody, whether usually interested in sci-fi, or not--another title that you turned me on to. Silverberg will have to wait on deck for bit, but he will get his turn at bat.Rodakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00077919085157653816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932752907198933265.post-28994459685079323732010-03-11T17:26:56.925-08:002010-03-11T17:26:56.925-08:00Hope you enjoy Silverberg, Rodak. I think even the...Hope you enjoy Silverberg, Rodak. I think even the author himself would agree that this thin novel does not quite measure up to We or 1984 -- those are adamantine classics. <br /><br />But Silverberg has his own flair, and the ability to illustrate ideas without his books becoming endless rounds of forced dialogue.Scott Timberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02018827087884225579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932752907198933265.post-14135773243404854762010-03-04T06:32:34.779-08:002010-03-04T06:32:34.779-08:00Since I was turned on to this site by a plug on Ra...Since I was turned on to this site by a plug on <a href="http://www.raggedthots.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Ragged Thots</a>, Robert A. George's blog, you have never steered me wrong. Although he was already on my to-read list, you prompted me to get on with reading Junot Diaz. Then you turned me on to Michael Dibdin, whose existence I was not aware of. I just finished reading <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Lagoon" rel="nofollow">Dead Lagoon</a> with great enjoyment. Aurelio Zen is a guy who does everything right as a cop, and everything wrong as a human being. I can relate to that.<br />I find that I already own <em>The World Inside.</em> I picked it up on a whim at a public library used book sale, but have never read it. Now I shall. Another novel, perhaps on a loosely related theme, that I also bought at a library sale was <em>We</em> by Eugene Zamiatin. I did read this one. It supposedly influenced Orwell's writing of <em>1984.</em><br />I'm sure that I'll enjoy the Silverberg as much as I have the other fiction you've brought to my attention.Rodakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00077919085157653816noreply@blogger.com