- Paperback: 64 pages
- Publisher: Ags Pub; Pap/Cas edition (June 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1561035874
- ISBN-13: 978-1561035878
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 14 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Boom food forever,
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This review is from: The Food of the Gods (Hardcover)
"Bigger isn't necessarily better." Dr Ruth WestheimerThis is one of HG's more popular books. This was made into a movie "The Food of the Gods" (1976) and closer to the book "Night of the Lepus" (1972) which was an early form of Rabbit Transit. As with all of HG's work this is more of a social commentary than it is a sci-fi story. A scientist finds a way or a food to keep growth from being inhibited. It gets out of hand in several stories each tied together with the single theme. The first part of the story is simple how you deal with big chickens. However it gets a little more complex when it's "how do you deal" with big people. HG shows how England is a stagnant society in the least changes upset the status quo and need to be squelched. As you can see he is split this up into several books each book being a stand-alone story yet counts on the story before it. As you read this story you must think how I react if I had to deal with giants, how I react if I was the giant. Hopefully we come away from the story with a better understanding of how society works and /or can work. "He was no more than a great black outline against the starry sky a great black outline the threatened with one mighty gesture the firmament of heaven and all its multitude of stars." Was Dr. Ruth and her assumption? The Food of the Gods Night of the Lepus ~ Stuart Whitman
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Prescient,
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This review is from: The Food of the Gods (Paperback)
>Of course people have gotten bigger in the 20th century, due primarily to better nutrition, health care, excercise, etc., but we are hardly the 40 foot giants Wells' talks about. Look up "nutrition" in a dictionary: It means "food". In particular people have gotten RADICALLY taller in the last fifteen years of the twentieth-century--a remarkably short span of time--due to what's being put INTO food (chemicals--I'm not talking about vitamins here): not "bigger", TALLER. Taller, thinner, less muscular, more stretched out, in a word, misshapen, disfigured. This book can be taken as a parable or an adventure story, and so on, but to a remarkable extent it happens to be a DEAD-ON prophecy.
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3 and 1/2 Stars,
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This review is from: The Food of the Gods (Paperback)
Everyone knows that H.G. Wells has written some great books that are classics not only of speculative fiction, but of literature itself. However, as anyone who has delved deeper into his canon knows, he also wrote many books of far lesser quality. This book starts out quite slowly and awkwardly, and, at first, I thought it was going to be one of those books; but, as I got deeper into the book, it became more interesting and fascinating. Wells's prose style, merely fuctionary at the best of times, is particularly awkward and trying at the start of this book. It does, however, improve much as the story goes on. Even if you find this book slow going at first, my advice to you is to stick with it: the last 50 pages or so are classic Wells, and find him at his most poetic and striking. This book finds Wells in the mode of social commentary that he tended to feature in his novels after the turn of the century; and, if his position on the issue presented in this book is not as abundantly clear as that in some of his other works, it nonetheless makes for fine reading. Not a first-class Wells novel by any means, and, though you should read a good handful of his books before beginning on this one, you will eventually want to pick this up if you are a fan of Wells.
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