Celsius 232 and 7/9ths
17 Sep 2004It’s a really good book. Short, too. I picked it up this afternoon and finished it in procrastination time and whilst on public transport, etc. If you’ve never heard of it, that’s probably because it’s usually expressed in Fahrenheit.
Making slightly more sense, now? Maybe?
I’m sure there many others have already expressed opinions on the book, and a quick search with your weapon of choice will probably yield multitudes of synposiseseseses (synopsi?), reviews and the like.
It seemed (at least to me) to be different in the whole “bleak futurist” genre in that the book ends on a positive note. Okay, I should clarify that. It seems, at least to me, to end on a positive note, in that the valued elements established in the text survive, even though a few million people die, and… yeah. That was a spoiler, by the way. Forget the previous line now. ;-)
Something was going to be announced where this paragraph is, but I’ve decided not to, because I’m not sure enough to make that worthwhile. If I were to say I’m looking for ideas for Extension 2 next year, that’d probably allow clever cookies to surmise what I would have been considering suggesting as a theme here. But I won’t. Because I’m still liable to changing my mind several times a day for about two months still ;-)