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Re: Favorite Book?
The best book I've read lately is The City of Truth by James Morrow. It takes place in a city where people have been brutally conditioned to always tell the truth, no matter what. It's about a man whose son gets bitten by a rabbit while at Camp Ditch the Kids, and contracts a fatal disease from the bite. The main character decides he must how learn to lie if, as he believes, only falsehoods can give his son enough hope to effect a cure.
It's a very well written book, with lots of humor (such as a signs in elevators that read: THIS ELEVATOR MAINTAINED BY PEOPLE WHO HATE THEIR JOBS. RIDE AT YOUR OWN RISK., and a car called Ford Sufficient) but it also has a lot of sadness too. One thing it really made me think about is that as much as I love honesty, I wouldn't want to live in a world with no choice.
Heidi
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