Blind Faith

De: Ben Elton

Narrado por: Glen McCready

As Trafford Sewell struggles to work through the usual crowds of commuters, he is confronted by the intimidating figure of his Parish Confessor. Why has Trafford not been streaming his every moment of sexual intimacy onto the community website like everybody else? Does he think he's different or special in some way? Better than his fellow man and woman? Does he have something to hide?

Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where what a person 'feels' and 'truly believes' is protected under the law, while what is rational, even provable is condemned as heresy. A world where to question ignorance and intolerance is to commit a Crime against Faith.

Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a confessional sex obsessed, self-centric culture to create a world where nakedness is modesty, ignorance is wisdom and privacy is a dangerous perversion. A chilling vision of what's to come? Or something rather closer to what we call reality?

©2007 Ben Elton (P)2009 Random House Audio

Interesting dystopia with its flaws

This book has some interesting pluses and minuses. It seems to be an odd combination of a dystopian future where televangelists make it to the UK and mix in with rampant social media addicts to create a dystopian future somewhere close to a hyper religious version of idiocracy. The main character is also a religious zealot, but one of the few remaining followers of science...not necessarily the scientific method, but the idea of science and humanism as their god.

I did like the book but it was brought down by a few grating monologues and excessive dialogue. The reader was excellent...maybe too good as he made some of the more obnoxious characters so annoying that I wanted to pause and give my head a break.

Hard to read

Well to be honest the story is a cautionary tale about societies addiction to ones self! So for me this book was hard to read/listen to it has some very crude language and talks about sex in a very demeaning way. I found it very tasteless and provocative. The story could've been great I really thought it the author could've written a better story with some of his ideas. I felt the author sees the absolute worse in people! And that's what I had in the front of my mind the entire time with this book.

A rendition of 1984. Ben

Ben Alton modern rendition to Goerge Orwell’s 1984. The story is so similar although set in the hell version of social media. It’s interesting but very predictable. Excellent narrator.

So realistic - almost painful

This is a valid dystopia where our society is headed. it’s so well written, and unfortunately seems more and more realistic that at times it is painful to listen to the next chapter.
A book that could well extend the list of great dystopian novels like 1984, Brave New World, Clockwork Orange, … adapted to current developments in the human condition