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- Publisher: Legend paperbacks (31 Dec 1919)
- ISBN-10: 0099731800
- ISBN-13: 978-0099731801
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,773,687 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A simply timeless look into the dangers of both unabashed truth and the power of lies. I could not put this book down and finished it easily in one day. It's bitingly funny with the right edge to it that it needs to get its message across. I'd reccomend City of Truth to anybody and personally I am now very interested in reading James Morrow's other works.
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Although the subject matter does cut amazingly close to home with me, Morrow's City Of Truth is an amazingly powerful look at truth.
In short it is about a man living in a city where everyone has been conditioned to tell the truth, but a freak animal attack has struck his son with a fatal disease. He feels his only hope is to learn to lie and keep his son in good spirits, thus fighting off the disease with mind-over-body.
Although there is so much satire in this book that you could fill a dozen sig files with it, Morrow really gives us a hard look at the need for a median between lies and truths and when to use either...
I read the book in about 3 or 4 hours, I could not put it down, I was in tears at the end...
This is definitely a book I will start recomending to everyone, and I am now very interested in Morrow's other work.
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This book falls in with the "man vs. dystopia" gang. I found it to be a pretty good "sunday afternoon all the stores are closed i need a good book under 200 pages" kind of book. Read it if you're a fan of James Morrow. Read it if you just can't get enough of _Anthem_, _Brave New World_, _1984_ and so on. I think it's worth reading just for the "honest advertising" stuff:cigarettes have names like "Canceroulettes" etc. This book isn't quite as good as the other dystopia novels: it just dosen't produce the sense of dread like 1984, the disgust at the culture like in Brave New World, or the repression from Handmaid's Tale. It's probably on par with Anthem, but replace the preachy "I, I ...I!" in Ayn Rand's works with the humor of James Morrow. I liked it.
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