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Original Title:	The Wanting Seed
ISBN:	0393315088 (ISBN13: 9780393315080)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United Kingdom

The Wanting Seed Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

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Title	:	The Wanting Seed
Author	:	Anthony Burgess
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Norton Paperback Fiction
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	December 17th 1996 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 1962)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Classics

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For the most part I like people, even though many of them suck. I am also convinced that the world grows a bit more stupid every day and that we slowly move away from any kind of social evolution. Sure, there's plenty of technological innovation, and dentistry is a far better experience today, but people don't seem to be improving.

We still love screwing each other over, arguing about false issues, and murdering each other. Infrastructures are straining under corruption, graft, and greed. Congress is highly polarized and our "representatives" do little beyond hooking their friends up and padding the checking account.

The worst part of it all is that stupid people just keep breeding.

Anthony Burgess, perhaps best known for A Clockwork Orange (most likely you've seen the Kubrick film) had this book published in the same year (1962), and it fits nicely along other literary dystopic works such as 1984, Brave New World, and Anthem. However, as much as I loved it, it's probably not in the same weight class.
The Wanting Seed begins in a world that is vastly overpopulated, and extreme measures have been institutionalized to handle it. People live in tiny box apartments, homosexuality is the social norm (and it's policed), and everyone eats a protein mush as there just aren't enough damn cows in the world to handle the load. As you wrap your head around this world (seems like it would be easier to just castrate people instead of implemented totalitarian fabulousness), Burgess throws a curve ball and suddenly society collapses.

Yep, you're just reading along, dum dum dum dum dum, and hey, the world's ending.

The citizens of the world respond to their overcrowding and repression by engaging in mass cannibalism, groovy sex parties, and general mayhem. No, this isn't a spoiler alert, it's on the damn back of the book, so no comments please. Then, as you would imagine, things level out a bit.

There's this brainy back story to the book, that Burgess is essentially commenting on the cyclical nature of human history (which you'll also find in A Clockwork Orange and I'm sure in his other books as well). In short, people suck, they have always sucked, and they will continue to suck. So, why not read a good book and forget about it for a while?

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mind you - & at once this sounds like the opening for Tin Drum - but i have just finished the book & it's fresh in my mind. there's been a slew of negative reviews ~ right here on Goodreads ~ saying this is dated & non-PC, & apparently not seen for the sci-fi satire it is. 2) II 'Mind You;' as i have a 99 IQ, Asperger's & may not have 'gotten' that it is *indeed* dated & hateful, but welcome to All Things British - even old Ireland isn't spared! but, yes: read: browse, if

Last month I reread Anthony Burgess's most famous novel, A Clockwork Orange. In it I found new insights into Burgess's creative thought, encouraging me to read more of his oeuvre. I followed up on that idea with The Wanting Seed, which he wrote immediately following Clockwork. This dystopian novel demonstrates one of his persistent themes, the conflict between 'Augustinian' authoritarianism and 'neo-Pelagian' liberalism. The novel is set in a future similar to A Clockwork Orange, where Burgess

If you enjoy lackluster writing, prejudices from 30 years ago, unrelatable characters, and inexplicable plot twists, then this is the novel for you! If these things annoy you as much as they annoy me, then this is probably not worth reading.Honestly, the most amusing part of the novel was completely unintentional, because things we take for granted in modern society (Biracial people! Gays! Non-conformity to gender norms! VEGETARIANS!) are the crux of what makes this future world a dystopia. It

This novel was...interesting. I was anle to become fully immersed in the story and i enjoyed the take on the dystopian future. The future shown i believe is very realistic but highly unlikely. The characters were aweful with the exception of Shonny in my opinion. This was an easy read because of its great storytelling.

Well .... I'll be Damned.This was Disturbing, weird, darkly humorous and GOOD ! Hell !! people are getting canned and eaten cause it would be such a waste otherwise !!!!! who am I kidding I loved this shit XDIt's really entertaining. It's got that 1984 feel to it, with a bit more WTF factor. The language in here is not so strange as much as it was sort of hard. I found myself reaching for the dictionary more than once. I HATED the characters. Non of them deserved any kind of sympathy specially

Orwell meet Burgess, Burgess meet Orwell. Do I say it? The Wanting Seed is an Orwellian imagining of a future wherein the earth is so taxed by overpopulation that homosexuality is encouraged and is necessary to achieve promotion in society. Food is rationed, families may have only one child, if any, media is controlled. All of this negation of fecundity is creating a backlash - crops are failing, animals are dying. Soon jackbooted thugs are patrolling the streets. People are drafted into a

I have to say the original "dystopia" sounded totally Utopian to me. In the world, homosexuality was encouraged, breeding was discouraged, race was something that was ignored and everyone had enough to eat, there was no war, no military, no religion, there was a liberal government that seemed half way between communism and anarchy. Of course the homophobic main characters didn't get a lot of sympathy from me, but I loved the setting. Of course things didn't stay that way as society was changing,