This Perfect Day (Unknown Binding)

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• Unknown Binding
• Publisher: Fawcett Crest (January 1, 1970)
• ASIN: B001SRB45O
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,552,363 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Chip has an eye on the future, April 4, 2009

By	bernie "xyzzy" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

Chip is being raised in a society that for the most part is organized and has its resources adjusted by computer. There are no fights, no need to shave, and no diseases. Everyone is living at least to 32. What more could one ask for. Then there are in theory a few misfits that haven't been to see their counselors and evidently not taking their medicine. You guest it, Chip is just determined that It is ridicules to have computers determine your life. He at least does not want them to control his life. This book has many twists and turns. Some you will guess and some you won't. So be prepared.

Naturally working in Information Systems I can not bring my self to enjoy the ending. Now it is fun to compare this work with "Brave new World" by Aldous Huxley for attitude and "1984" by George Orwell, for subterfuge. Others compare with "Logan's Run" by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, for the age thing and corrective action. They missed two good movies; they are "Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron" (1995) for that brain numbing effect and "Gattaca" (1997) for the genetic thing.

Harrison Bergeron