i just finished E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops. thanks lb for many books i love
very short read, but very interesting. very ironic, satirical. go read. i lazy to write book review. but the second short story reminds me a little of totoro with their cat buses and all. a little bit.
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okok i think i should offer more thoughts on this book. because it's been lying on my table, as i wait to offer my thoughts. once i'm done, i can keep it in the cupboard. ok so here goes
i like it because it painted a good picture of how humanity would be like, should technology get too advance. really extreme, but the ppl in the book lived in their own pods, where there are buttons for everything, so they never ever have to leave their pods. also, they recoil at human touch, a fact that caught my eye in the book, as currently touch is so ........ natural. in the book, the other didn't even wanted to touch her own son?! but anyway the son is rebellious, questioning the 'machine' which is like some technology god the people created. yet, they gave it such importance that they began to worship the machine, which (as a christian) seems to reflect a lot of our own desires right now.
i fear this passage makes entirely no sense.
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