- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: www.greatbefore.com (1 Dec 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955149908
- ISBN-13: 978-0955149900
- Product Dimensions: 16.4 x 10.8 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,237,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Anthony Daniels, The Spectator, 31 December 2005
"Invigorating, clever and often very funny....A good satire should be both bitter and funny, and this book is both."
Sally Cousins, Sunday Telegraph, 8 January 2006
"Intelligent and thought-provoking"
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A witty satire as a black picaresque.,
This review is from: The Great Before: A Satire (Paperback)
A trenchant satire which leaves one yearning for the present and not 'the good ol'days'! This black picaresque will purge the Luddite in any reader and make him happy to be a member of our 'souless' age! The book is full of pertinent observations couched in the the weird world of a post industrialist, future, and thouroughly medieval environment.It makes me appreciate my toaster all the more.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Insightful and sharp-witted satire,
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This review is from: The Great Before: A Satire (Paperback)
The Great Before is a road story from the mid-21st century, when all the roads have been overgrown and the only permissible form of transport apart from walking is the skateboard. The story is told by an 84-year-old professor, making his way from Cambridge to London for an exhibition of the lost wonders of the now-despised 'industrial age'. Along the way his companions and the people he meets give their various perspectives on what went wrong and who is to blame. Though manifestly a 'be careful what you wish for' satire on the views of anti-globalisers, the book also has some telling things to say about the flimsy foundations on which life at the turn of the century is built. The beginning of the book isn't its strongest part, but it's worth sticking with it.
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A dark warning on the perils of surrendering to fear,
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This review is from: The Great Before: A Satire (Paperback)
Its black cover is suitable: this is meant to be a dark warning about what happens when fear - of industry, science, of human learning and rationality itself - takes over. This book should be read by doomongers of all kinds, right and left.
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