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Blind Faith

by Ben Elton

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Ben Elton is, as usual, a quick read. A book about a society in the future where everything is hot and overcrowded and privacy is forbidden. Trafford feels he is different and wants to escape but the Faith controls all aspects of his life, so it will be difficult.

Ben Elton's books are often completely over the top but I usually find them very entertaining in their satire. I really liked the not sex scenes between him and his love interest - very interesting and different! I thought that the relationship with his daughter, considering how important she is for the story, was practically nonexistent, which is a pity. As usual the ending took me by surprise and that's something I really appreciate in Ben Elton's books. ( )
  verenka | Oct 21, 2009 |
This was the first book by Ben Elton that I'd read and wasn't sure what to expect - but it instantly pulled me in. I couldn't understand the logic behind the 'collapse' that lead society to the way it was as the main character narrated it, but I could accept it.SPOILERThe whole book is very '1984' in some ways, mixed in with the 'Jeremy Kyle' confessionary style outlook on life, and was amazingly, and almost flawlessly excuted - though, I did 'see' the ending coming a mile off - possibly because of the parallells by then, between 1984 and Blind Faith.A very good book, and an excellent read - no problems with the copy on my eReader. ( )
  Kaiberie | Sep 19, 2009 |
There are overtones of Bradbury and Orwell, but this dystopic future seems to be much, much closer to home. Elton extrapolates modern self-obsession, shallowness and insincerity to its logical extremes and throws in a dose of the medieval religious blind faith of the title. There is some interesting imagery of a future London "after the flood", but this book is more about making a point than delivering much in the way of plot. Worth a read though, and it does deliver the most soul-crushingly bleak ending I've read in a while... ( )
1 vote hotchk155 | Aug 11, 2009 |
Never read any of his books before, but this was a very clever parody of todays society. We laugh, but he 'aint far short. ( )
  frannypatter | Jun 27, 2009 |
This book was so entertaining to read. Ben Elton was able to make relevant social comments in a humourous way, while at the same time holding a spotlight on how self-absorbed society is today. I agree with most of the points that I believe Ben Elton was making about our Westernised society. ( )
  angry-muppet | Jun 25, 2009 |
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Trafford said goodbye to his wife, kissed their tiny baby on the forehead and began to unlock the various bolts and deadlocks that secured their front door.
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As Trafford Sewell struggles to work through the usual crowds of commuters, he is confronted by the intimidating figure of his priest, full of accusatory questions. Why has Trafford not been streaming his every moment of sexual intimacy onto the community website like everybody else? Does he think he's different or special in some way? Does he have something to hide? Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where what a person "feels" and "truly believes" is protected under the law, while what is rational, even provable, is condemned as heresy. A world where to question ignorance and intolerance is to commit a crime against Faith. Ben Elton’s dark, savagely comic novel imagines a postapocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a confessional sex-obsessed, self-centric culture to create a world where nakedness is modesty, ignorance is wisdom, and privacy is a dangerous perversion. A chilling vision of what’s to come, or something rather close to what we call reality?

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