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Help me identify this book!

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  • 08-01-2006 5:54pm
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    simu
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    It's a novel about a human society in the distant future. Nearly all traces of our present-day civilisation have been lost and all that remains - fragments from a Charles Dickens novel (I think) - are being used as the scriptures of a new religion.

    Any idea what book this is?

    Thanks in advance!


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    jay-me
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    If all else fails try googling Dickens and see if u can get the jist of it on the reviews etc..


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    Karoma
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    The Book of Dave, Will Self..?
    Has the one you're thinking of been released / around for long?


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    simu
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    ^^^

    Twould be out a good few years. Might be by Doris Lessing although I didn't see anything that matched my memory on her booklist on Amazon.


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    Karoma
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    I've often considered the concept (re: Christianity especially) ... but I cannot name the book. Sorry.

    bumpety


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    solas
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    sounds like "The time machine" by HG wells. ? (although probably not)


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    BossArky
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    I doubt it is the Time Machine as I read it recently and it was not really like what the original poster described.


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    Hip
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    It doesn't quite match what you describe... but is it Brave New World?


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    simu
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    Hip wrote:
    It doesn't quite match what you describe... but is it Brave New World?

    No! Hmm... maybe I'll have to write a book of this description myself!


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    Hip
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    simu wrote:
    No! Hmm... maybe I'll have to write a book of this description myself!

    Unless I beat you to it!

    *scribbles furiously


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    Cake Fiend
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    Sounds awfully familiar... but also sounds like an outer limits episode I once saw...?


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    BossArky
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    its not 1984? .. altho that is in the past, but was supposed to be a future view when written.


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    OfflerCrocGod
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    BossArky wrote:
    its not 1984?
    Boogles! Have you read the book??!


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    Raptor
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    Not trying to be thoroughly unhelpful, but wasnt that also the plot of a Sliders episode? As far as I can remember they ended up on an earth where after a war the only book left was a nuclear plant safety manual, and the survivors based their religion on it?


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    Thomas_S_Hunterson
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    Could it be Brave New World by Aldous Huxley


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    simu
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    sean_keevey wrote:
    Could it be Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

    No.


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    BossArky
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    OfflerCrocGod wrote:
    Boogles! Have you read the book??!

    Yes, plus watched a really crap film version about a week ago. Its as good a guess as the rest here.


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