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I thought this one was alright, nothing too amazing and ultimately wouldn‘t ever be a book that I‘d recommend to someone. I don‘t feel like I wasted my time, but there are other books more worth one‘s time (and other books written by the Strugatski brothers that are way more enjoyable).

‘Kingsley Amis, having learned of the experiments with rats, wrote: “I cannot be sure that this frightens me more than a Berlin or a Taiwan crisis, but it should, I believe, frighten me more.” He feared much about the future, this brilliant and venomous author of New Maps of Hell, and: in particular, he foresaw the possibilities of brain stimulation for the creation of an illusory existence, just as intense as the actual, or more intense.‘

“That beautiful charming woman is no doubt in fact a repulsive malodorous hyena, a promiscuous dull-witted sow.”

Just finished my #TripleSpin selection for April and liked it a lot. Under the pretext of a science fiction novel presenting a future utopia, the Strugatski brothers make great comments and raise a lot of questions about what happens when a personal world that is supposed to be someone's paradise, stops being so either because it affects the society or simply because it starts being too intense. A pick for me.

Thanks again, @TheAromaOfBooks.

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