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Title: Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach ISBN: 0-553-34847-7 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (35 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not a Normal Novel ...
Comment: This is not a book about plot or characterization; it is a book about an idea. Earlier reviews describe the idea well enough; let my review's contribution be to suggest that if you are looking for gripping plot or deep characters, you should go somewhere else. But if you are interested in an idea that was radical at the time, and still pooh-poohed in our present (2003), then this is a book to read. Indeed, the idea is so important, that this book should be read (... and criticized!...) in any decent educational curriculum. This is a fine book and well worth your time, so long as you don't expect yet-another-normal-novel.
What a pity Frank Herbert or Connie Willis didn't write this book!
Rating: 4
Summary: I love this book, but........
Comment: This is one of those books that only a mother could love. This is one of my favorite books, but all the critical reviews are correct: the writing style flips back & forth between pretentious & wooden, the characters either shallow or dopey (usually both). This book is no "A Tale of Two Cities." In fact, for this kind of story, Thomas Moore's "Utopia," Bellemy's "Looking Backward"--and probably everything written by Jules Verne are better stories....Way better (especially Moore, the grand-daddy of the genre).
I still love this book, because of all that. When written during the 1970s, it was so "out there" for its time--that reading it now is terribly dated. It's almost like watching 1950s movies about space flight....But this book (in its own weird way) was an important book that helped inspire the environmental movement. No, it's not Rachal Carsons's "Silent Spring," but it reads a heck of a lot better than "Unsafe at any Speed."
If you're in your forties (or older), and want a drift back to the "future" of 1970, or you're younger & want to know why your parents are so weird--Read this book. Or if you are an environmentalist, and want to know where your roots lie--this is a good book to read.
But if you don't have any special interest, and are just looking for a ripping good yarn to pass a rainy saturday afternoon....It's not this book, babe.
Rating: 5
Summary: Looking at the other side!
Comment: I loved reading Ecotopia for my Government class. This book is really easy to understand. The author goes into great detail. For those of you who do like exploring new things this book is for you. It is possible to have a world like Ecotopia, that's whats so appealing. I recomend this to everyone. Open your mind explore something new and don't be afraid.
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Title: Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach ISBN: 0960432035 Publisher: Banyan Tree Books Pub. Date: June, 1981 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Ecology: A Pocket Guide by Ernest Callenbach ISBN: 0520214633 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ISBN: 0486404293 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 02 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin ISBN: 0061054887 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Walden Two (Trade Book) by B. F. Skinner ISBN: 002411510X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 01 March, 1976 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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