A book about discrimination gone mad.
Mania is set in current day USA, where one cannot refer to anything as being smart or stupid. The Mental Party carefully police any suggestions of intellectual inequality. Everything has been ‘dumbed down’ to the same depressing level where ambition, creativity and hope no longer exist.
Pearson is a university tutor who turned her back on her upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness when she was 15 and was taken in by her friend, Emory’s family.
She now has three children - clever Darwin and Zanzibar, by donated sperm from a high IQ Japanese scientist and below average Lucy, naturally impregnated by her tree surgeon partner.
The book is written in Lionel Shiver’s usual droll and satirical way. Full of clever sarcasm and political views, the reader needs to be hyper vigilant to appreciate all the wit and clever puns in the narrative.
This book needs to be read slowly and thoughtfully to fully appreciate it.
Unfortunately, I found it too slow, laborious and depressing and abandoned it half way through.
Mania is set in current day USA, where one cannot refer to anything as being smart or stupid. The Mental Party carefully police any suggestions of intellectual inequality. Everything has been ‘dumbed down’ to the same depressing level where ambition, creativity and hope no longer exist.
Pearson is a university tutor who turned her back on her upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness when she was 15 and was taken in by her friend, Emory’s family.
She now has three children - clever Darwin and Zanzibar, by donated sperm from a high IQ Japanese scientist and below average Lucy, naturally impregnated by her tree surgeon partner.
The book is written in Lionel Shiver’s usual droll and satirical way. Full of clever sarcasm and political views, the reader needs to be hyper vigilant to appreciate all the wit and clever puns in the narrative.
This book needs to be read slowly and thoughtfully to fully appreciate it.
Unfortunately, I found it too slow, laborious and depressing and abandoned it half way through.