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- Paul
- 04-26-04
This Book is socialist Propaganda
No one should be allowed to read this book without first or directly after reading or listening to Atlas Shrugged. Atlas Shrugged will give you a opposing view to the "perfect world" portrayed in "Looking Backward" The victorian language in this book is also difficult to follow and requires concentration to stay with the story.
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- Mark Nelson
- 04-23-12
What would a world without money be like?
What made the experience of listening to Looking Backward the most enjoyable?
We've all heard that (the love of) money is the root of all evil, but we can't imagine a world without it. This is exactly what the author does. He describes a world of the future where people act to benefit everyone, rather than having everyone do whatever it takes to get ahead. This is a story I'll listen to many times, because it describes the kind of future that I would like to be part of.
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- Steven
- 10-27-11
A good presentation of a great classic
Looking Backwards is a classic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries which contains some of the early ideas of what would become the socialist movement. It is a Utopian novel in which a man form the 18th century is transported to the 21st. I think it is a fascinating picture into the 18th century mindset of what a perfect culture society could be.
To me this is not a book about what 'should' be, but instead it is about what 'could have been.'
The narration is crisp, if a bit fast passed, though to me this fits.
Overall I liked this version of the book and I would recommend it to anyone looking for an interesting glimpse into a possible version of our world today as dreamed up by a 18th century author.
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- Philip G.
- 06-12-15
A socialist Sci-Fi from year 1886
It's pretty interesting what people at That is time thought of the future, in which we live now. The reader gets to admire their forecasts, as well as gloat at their naivete. Plus there is some time travel involved.
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- Vincent P Nolan, Jr
- 01-25-21
Interesting Classic Utopian Novel
The author uses an interesting premise to predict the future of America and the world from his 19th Century perspective. It is a true utopian novel full of hopes and dreams of a world where there is no bad, only good.
It is perfectly obvious why Bellamy clubs (also known as Nationalist Clubs) sprung up around the country in his time. There is nothing to dislike about the hopeful vision he projects in the novel.
Like so many utopian thinkers, going back to Sir Thomas More, the internal conflict within mankind over power vs freedom is smoothed over without detailed explanation. It is more dream than possible reality.
Still ... this is an enjoyable read.
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- Gina Wilson
- 07-28-19
A most excellent historical fiction read!
This was NOT what I expected but was still enjoyable. Bellamy creates a utopian society that has similar features to today's world, while criticizing the Gilded Age for all its vainglorious behaviour.
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- malo
- 07-28-19
Well thought out, a little too long
The middle third of the book is well thought out, predicting the future, but a little long winded. I skipped quite a bit and didn’t miss anything pertinent.
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- Ibi A. Cole
- 04-11-18
Now I see How This Book Sparked a Revolution
Brilliant
Amazing
Smart
Thought Provoking
A necessary for survival in today's social and economic terrain.
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- Brandon
- 05-12-17
Astonishing. Impeccable. Necessary.
This is truly an astonishing book, especially considering the time period in which it was written. I must admit, o'clock if not astounding. However, in terms of significance the book is that the up most caliber. The sentiments and implications of this book are among the highest degree.It has become one of my favorite books, and encourage everyone to read it at least once. It is more than just a book, it is a guideline for the future of our humanity.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-22-21
Incredibly forward thinking
Again and again while listening to this book I found ideas that I had both argued for and thought were relatively new only to be astounded by Bellamy's foresight. You would never guess that this book was written in the 1800s. Again I was astounded by the modern thinking and views.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-17-22
Bait
In his 1888 novel Bellamy foists his idyllic lie that it is only the corrupt institutions of man that have driven poverty, despair, and evil.
Indeed, his detailed description of the utopic society belongs, as he says, to heaven. I say heaven because that is the only place that the selfish and deceptive nature of the human heart can be transformed into altruistic, generous benevolence toward others.
We humans do not display our corruption merely to supply our physical necessities. Have you ever met a child? One who has been provided every physical, and indeed, emotional support and care still consistently seeks to assert himself above all others. In the vernacular we call him "spoiled." When he does not have his prideful passions constrained (most effectively with a swat on the bottom), he is intolerable as an infant and, if left unchecked, becomes a self-entitled menace to society the like of which this philosophy seems to have currently produced an army.
Bellamy's hopeful reverie is a falsehood conjured by Darwin and Marx directly, the likes of which is the bait that every tyrant dangles over the downtrodden and ignorant masses unknowingly yearning to be born of the Spirit and not of the flesh.
We might forgive Bellamy's ignorance of the actual 20th century which lived out the horrors of collectivism in its several guises of fascism, socialism, and communism. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao being the heavy hitters, showed centralisation for its true colours. None of these established their empires out of mere lack of basic necessity, yet they certainly used that cause as a pretext to grow their armies.
Beware this seductive lie: "It is not within ME to commit evil, but only "they" who have caused this to befall me." We are each capable of the most heinous of acts. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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- Anonymous User
- 02-28-19
genius.
This book is a work of genius. Often funny. Often saddening, contrasted with today's society.
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Great story, terrible production and performance
- By John D Green on 10-16-15
By: Jack London
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
- By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of 20th-century literature—a chilling and still-provocative look at a postapocalyptic future.
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Introibo Ad Altare
- By richard on 03-20-13
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Looking Backward: 2000-1887
- By: Edward Bellamy
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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"Looking Backward: 2000–1887" is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, a journalist and writer from Massachusetts. It was the third largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. It influenced many intellectuals, and appears by title in many socialist writings of the day. "It is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately on its appearance a political mass movement". The novel also inspired several utopian communities.
By: Edward Bellamy
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Looking Backward
- 2000-1887
- By: Edward Bellamy
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Published in 1888 to immediate popularity, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a dynamic rejection of industrial capitalism, and presents a depiction of a socialist utopia. The novel’s protagonist, aristocrat Julian West, falls into a deep, hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000 to find a very different Boston from the one he knows. In Dr. Leete he finds a guide who explains the humane and efficient society in which he now finds himself - its transformation made possible by political and technological advances.
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Pre-Communist Wishful Thinking
- By Marie on 05-30-23
By: Edward Bellamy
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Looking Backward: 2000-1887
- By: Edward Bellamy
- Narrated by: Caroline Collins
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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"Looking Backward" is a futuristic novel by Edward Bellamy. It tells the story of Julian West, a young American, who, towards the end of the 19th century, falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up one hundred and thirteen years later. He finds himself in the same location (Boston, Massachusetts), but in a totally changed world: it is the year 2000 and, while he was sleeping, the United States have been transformed into a socialist utopia.
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Decent book, not a fan of narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 12-10-19
By: Edward Bellamy
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The Yellow Wallpaper
- By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Narrated by: Beata Poźniak
- Length: 1 hr
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Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper. In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid” wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design.
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Beautiful and Haunting
- By samsararose on 11-06-23
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The Iron Heel
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: Darla Middlebrook, Mike Vendetti
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Jack London, famed for his tales of adventure, was also a science fiction writer only rivaled in his time by the great H. G. Wells. The Iron Heel is a dystopia that would, in part, inspire George Orwell's masterwork, 1984. The Iron Heel tracks the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States of America - and the doomed attempt to counter it. It is a novel more relevant today than it was in its day. Hear the "tale of capitalist oppression" that George Orwell couldn't stop thinking about.
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Great story, terrible production and performance
- By John D Green on 10-16-15
By: Jack London
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
- By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of 20th-century literature—a chilling and still-provocative look at a postapocalyptic future.
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Introibo Ad Altare
- By richard on 03-20-13
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