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Modern Classics Midwich Cuckoos (Paperback)

de Christopher Priest (Foreword), John Wyndham (Author)
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Cuckoos lay eggs in other birds' nests. The clutch that was fathered on the quiet little village of Midwich, one night in September, proved to possess a monstrous will of its own. Imt promised to make the human race look as dated as the dinosaur.

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3.0étoiles sur 5 A quiet english village sleeps... and sleeps, Aoû 25 2003
Par Michael Dea (Calgary, Alberta Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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The Midwich Cuckoos is a tale of alien invasion. One day the whole town of Midwich falls into a sleep. When they awaken a day later, every woman of childbearing age is pregnant. Nine months later somewhat odd children with the power to control minds have been born.
This is a very interesting and frightening idea, but curiously, there is no suspense to the book at all. The characters just don't seem to react to the circumstances. Odd things happen and they just shrug their shoulders and go on about their business, resigned to their fate. And no one outside the village seems to notice! A major part of the problem is that the narrator isn't involved, he just chronicles what happens with a vague sense of disquiet, but nothing more. It makes you want to reach into the book and give these people a shake and tell them to wake up. Maybe it's a British stiff upper lip kind of thing, I don't know, but the result is a story that is interesting, but never involving.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 outstanding science fiction written to the highest standard, Fév 1 2003
Par "stevebrody" (San Francisco, CA United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Wydham takes a look at a very interesting question: what happens with the entire human race is threatened, but our social conventions, politics, and institutions prevent us from saving ourselves? The odd title is a reference to the way cuckoo birds place their eggs in the nests of other birds who mistake the eggs for their own - but even after they hatch the surrogate mothers are compelled by their natures to take care of the babies. In Midwich, at a time when England regarded itself as the most civilized political community the world had ever known (hey, it probably still thinks that way!), the locals find themselves unable to mistreat a brood of alien, mind-controlling children, even though the fate of the world is at steak. Lot's of good narrative and entertaining philosophical conversations among the characters made this a truly great book, in the tradition of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" or Orwell's "1984".
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Boring, Sep 21 2003
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I found this book to be incredibly dry. I was required to read it for school, upon purchaseing it and began to read it, the boredom set in immediatly. The actual Alien invasion portion was somewhat interesting, kept me wondering what was going to happen next, however when nothing happend and the book set into another long dry spell, i was left bitterly dissapointed. The end of the book had some redeeming value, however it is no where near enough to make me ever consider reading it again. The story was pretty good, but poorly executed
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