Read this book with an open mind. Don't decide you dislike it because of political position and you will enjoy a good story and a fast-paced read. Although it is not in the same class with "The Handmaid's Tale", it made me think of it and stirred many of the same emotions. We have been warned and lived in dread of a "1984" world for a long time. This is another cautionary tale worth reading. ( )

Unbelievable that this could be the true aim of a UN proposal, but maybe not so surprising when you think about it. And the excerpts from the document is not very free market/freedom friendly... And this has come a long way, since 1993, or even 1972. Reminds me of the story about boiling a frog, by slowly heating the pot... ( )

a book with no end ( )

I was hoping for a great master peice like Beck's "Overton Window" and was saddened by the sequel that fialed to spun the rest of the series that was the ghost written "Eye of Moloch" This didn't quite wet that whistle.

Agenda 21 by Glen Beck with Harriet Parke, is clearly a completely original work by Parke that Beck wrote an afterward for. How she found her way into his world, I still dont' understand, and that's probably a book worth writing.

The story itself is a gripping tale about one of the last girls, Evaline, to have been raised by her parents withing the Republic previously known as the USA. The distopian future seems to be happening very soon in the future 2040 maybe? The explanation of how things got just so f'n bad in such a short amount of time was not well explained, probably because it wouldn't have held up. Set it 100-200 years in the future and we'd probably be OK. Evaline tries to learn about the "before times' but its not really legal to learn about it. She doesn't get to choose her mate, she doesn't get to have electricity, energy must be produced by here walking an energy board, and insted of Jetsonmobiles like the free market would give us, or the autobohn that state capitalism has given us, transport is done via a "Bus Box" which is basically a stage coach pulled by men like her father instead of horses, because animals are more important than people.

Even if this work is unbelievable the characters are good and worth reading for them alone. It is also worth reading for any liberal or leftists who actually wants to understand what their positions sound like to a conservative. ( )

Emmaline is devastated when her mother is taken away by the authorities. She is left living with Jeremy, a greasy haired, insolent teen who is her assigned partner with whom she is supposed to have a child. Set in the former US in a dystopian near future, when Emmaline was small the population was rounded up and sent to live in compounds so that nature could be preserved.

Emmaline, whose assigned job is to walk an energy producing board for hours each day, is relieved that Jeremy shows no interest in her and has refused to touch her. She misses her kind first partner, George, who disappeared along with her father, and their baby that was taken from her at birth to be raised with all other babies and children under 14. Fertile individuals are paired according to the whims of the authorities. In the weeks following her mother's disappearance, she comes to know David, a night guardian who starts giving her eggs to supplement her diet, and John, a friend of her parents she hadn't met before who sneaks by at night to talk with her. Gradually, Emmaline begins to question the ways of the authorities in ways beyond what her mother implied, and gradually comes to the unsettling discovery that not only is everyone not really equal, but that when people disappear it's much more dreadful than she had allowed herself to realize.

This book is a fictional look at what could happen if the UN's Agenda 21 were to be taken to the extreme. I gave it 5 stars not so much for the politics of it, but because it was well written, kept me on the edge of my seat, got me interested in Emmaline and provoked deep thought. ( )