Shades of Grey
5 journalers for this copy...
This inventive fantasy from bestseller Fforde (The Eyre Affair) imagines a screwball future in which social castes and protocols are rigidly defined by acuteness of personal color perception. Centuries after the cryptically cataclysmic Something That Happened, a Colortocracy, founded on the inflexible absolutes of the chromatic scale, rules the world. Amiable Eddie Russett, a young Red, is looking forward to marrying a notch up on the palette and settling down to a complacent bourgeois life. But after meeting Jane G-23, a rebellious working-class Grey, and a discredited, invisible historian known as the Apocryphal man, Eddie finds himself questioning the hitherto sacred foundations of the status quo. En route to finding out what turned things topsy-turvy, Eddie navigates a vividly imagined landscape whose every facet is steeped in the author's remarkably detailed color scheme. Sometimes, though, it's hard to see the story for the chromotechnics.
Journal Entry 2 by Releanna at RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, January 16, 2011
A great read - brilliant concept, eccentric, satiric, entertaining. A terrible, controlling, Orwellian society with rigid social hierarchies - and lots of good laughs (Great Leap Backward, overemployment, spoons a rare comodity, apocryphal people, loopholery ...) I never thought dystopian fiction can be that hilarious. It builds up slowly, the reader has to find out how this weird world works, but then... no spoiler here.
It's a long wait now: Shades of Grey 2 / Painting by Numbers will be out in ???...
It's a long wait now: Shades of Grey 2 / Painting by Numbers will be out in ???...
Journal Entry 5 by ApoloniaX at Wishlist Surprise, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, March 27, 2011
Yay! A wishlist book. I added this to my wishlist after reading a review in Sci-fi now. This book came with lots of goodies :) Thanks!
I didn't like this as much as I thought I would. I found most of it quiet dull with the odd laugh thrown in. I didn't really start to get into it, until they ventured to High Saffron. Now I'm slightly annoyed because I want to find out what happens but not if I have to read another slow burner. I liked the ideas in the book. I just think they could have been written in a more interesting way.
Released 11 yrs ago (11/6/2012 UTC) at By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases
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Journal Entry 9 by weebly at Hartwell, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Thanks for this wonderful surprise book. Looking forward to having a read of it.
Journal Entry 10 by BC-Widow at Northampton, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Sunday, November 11, 2012
My wife received this book as a random act of bookcrossing kindness - I am so pleased! Because I wanted a book to read and she passed this to me first, as she was finishing another book.
I have read other FForde books and enjoyed them, but with this book (first in trilogy), I very much enjoyed the allegorical storyline of this tale. Its a great read, very well balanced in all areas, teasing the story out without slowing the pace too much. Felt like I read the book in one sitting; Jjust Bbrilliant.
I have read other FForde books and enjoyed them, but with this book (first in trilogy), I very much enjoyed the allegorical storyline of this tale. Its a great read, very well balanced in all areas, teasing the story out without slowing the pace too much. Felt like I read the book in one sitting; Jjust Bbrilliant.