Voivod30
01-14-2010, 01:50 PM
I purchased this short novel a few months ago, I still haven't gotten around to reading it but I'm thinking that its length is short enough that I might throw it into the mix of the other books I'm reading. I had never heard of the novel or author when I picked it up and I still have never talked to any one who has read it. Judging from what it says on the back cover I'm sort of thinking that Flatland's is a distopian story of sorts. I'm thinking along the lines of Hardtimes (Dickens), A Brave New World (Huxley), Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) or even perhaps 1984 to some degree. Of course those novels are all vastly different but all have a general leaning towards a brainwashed whether by force (1984) or more by suggestion (A Brave New World) future society. So I'm just on the fence on whether to start this now or wait until I clear my plate of the half dozen or so novels and novellas I'm already working on.