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by Harry Harrison (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New impression edition (28 Jun 1973)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140026649
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140026641
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than that nonsense Chuck starred in!, 12 Feb 2008
Briefly, Make room, make room is one of the best SF novels I have ever read. It deals with overcrowding and lack of resources and where the continuing expansion in the World population may lead us.

As in that film it centres on Andy Rusch a cop and his elderly friend Sol. Andy falls in love witha yong girl who is about to lose her sugar daddy and persaudes Sol to take her in. Andy is roted in his situtation of having little to eat so greatly that he cannot comprehend a better world and even the lure of the girl being there with him is not enough.

Unlike the film, the food Soylent is neither undesirable nor made from human flesh. It is made from Soya and lentils and people enjoy eating it. When a young kid gets hold of some and intends to sell it, he eats some and cannot beleive how good it is.

A particularly harrowing description is given to a drug trip where the kid thinks dirt tastes sweet and noises sound musical, powerful writing that you won't forget quickly.

This is not a life changing book, I suspect few are, but if you read it you will neither regret it or forget it. Abnd you won't bother with the travesty of a film they made from it again either because next to the book, "Soylent Green" is cheap unwashed pants!
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a view of what the sixities thourght the nineties would be l, 4 Jul 2001
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This review is from: Make Room! Make Room! (Mass Market Paperback)
This book was written in the 1960's and paints a very bleak view of what the world might look like in the 1990's. It describes the city of New York as an overpopulated, underfed, undernourished world where everything is rationed and instead of speakeasys they have "meateasys". A world where nearly everyone is on welfare, the rations consisting of "weed crackers", where everyone has been inoculated from most ailments and there is an evergroing population of "eldsters". The book circulates about 1 cop and a murder investigation, set against the turn of the milennium and the possible end of the world.

A very spooky look at a premonition of the world today.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but film was better, 10 April 2008
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This is the book that the film science-fiction film Soylent Green is loosely based on. The two stories are very different, however. Both are set in an overpopulated New York in the near future. In the film, the story is about the police investigation into the murder of an executive of the corporation that makes the synthetic food stuff, Soylent Green and has one of the most memorable twist endings I remember in a film. In the book there is also a murder, but the story is very different and less important than the Harrison's description of daily life in New York. Harrison was writing a warning to his readers about the dangers of unchecked population growth and resistance to birth control , and there is a bibliography at the end of the book. I don't think the book has dated terribly well. Much of the population growth that Harrison feared has happened, but with few of the consequences that he had feared. Nonetheless, the book makes for uncomfortable reading as he describes the daily fight to live in a city with little food, unreliable sources of power, and insufficient accommodation. The plot, however, is poor, and the filmmakers were right to change it. The ending in the book has nothing of the shock power of the film version.
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