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Delirium by Lauren Oliver
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Delirium (edition 2011)

by Lauren Oliver

Series: Delirium (1)

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Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
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Title:Delirium
Authors:Lauren Oliver
Info:Piemme (2011), Hardcover, 383 pages
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Delirium by Lauren Oliver

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I can't do it. I read about 1/3 of the book and I can't continue. Perhaps I'll pick it up again and try to read it another time, when I'm desperate for something to read. The story, in a word, sucks. The only thing I am happy about is the fact that I caught this on discount and only paid $2.99 for it.
  thatnerd | Mar 2, 2024 |
so good...
  lmauro123 | Dec 28, 2023 |
so good...
  lmauro123 | Dec 28, 2023 |
Second book I have enjoyed by this author. She has a way of being able to capture emotion and put it into words very accurately and beautifully. Excited to read the next in series! ( )
  rianainthestacks | Nov 5, 2023 |
7/10, now that I look back at this book I definitely wouldn't consider this a masterpiece anymore considering that I've read better books than this but this was still enjoyable. The worldbuilding is so ridiculous that it made me laugh however it wasn't the biggest aspect of the story but it still bothered me because in the book they banned love because it was a disease however they didn't ban anything else and I thought why ban that and nothing else and I was perplexed by the author's decision. This set up the whole story when the main character Lena Haloway at first obeys the anti-love dystopia and after a few pages later she meets a boy named Alex from the north of the United States called the Wilds but before then it was called Canada and guess what, they fall in love with each other despite the government banning love which built up some suspense which I liked. Towards the second half of the book Lena and Alex continue to develop their attraction to one another yet I simply didn't care for them because they weren't really that well written and felt more like archetypes than actual characters but in the end the government discovers that she has broken the one rule she wasn't supposed to break and there was a big chase between her and the police and she escapes into the Wilds with Alex and it all ends in a cliffhanger. I would like to read the next two books in the series and fortunately my library does have them and overall this was an interesting book but if the author tried a little bit harder on it this would've been an even better book and if you like dystopias read this book. ( )
  Law_Books600 | Nov 3, 2023 |
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Epigraph
The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well.

--Proverb 42, The Book of Shhh
Dedication
For all the people who have infected me with

amor deliria nervosa in the past--

you know who you are.

For the people who will infect me in the future--

I can't wait to see who you'll be.

And in both cases:

Thank you.
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It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure.
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Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.

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There was a time when love was the most important thing in the world. People would go to the end of the earth to find it. They would tell lies for it. Even kill for it.

Then, at last, they found the cure.

Now, everything is different. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the government demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Haloway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.

But then, with only ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable
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Love is bad for you.
A cure is necessary.
Will Lena survive?
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