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Great book so far. A virus makes animals fatal to eat, so of course there could only be 1 solution, systematically breeding and eating people. I know it's another reality/universe but the main character remembers eating animals as a child. That means people went from normal to completely evil in 1 generation. By the time the man is grown, he lives in a world where everyone acts like a psychopath, trying to normalize it. It's like in one person's lifetime, everyone lost their souls to the point where empathy was practically illegal. If the world in this writer's mind changed that fast, I wonder what a sequel 100 years into the future would look like...

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[-] BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Such a good book. You might not have made it that far, but its more or less stated that what really happened was

  • The virus comes out
  • Meat industry and meat lobby still exists
  • Lobbies to make human meat legal to eat
  • Spreads a bunch of stories about people eating each other due to lack of meat
  • Corrupt politicians give in to the lobby

But its not really important. Its background noise to the story. The story is about the dude and about the society and about how we view women and animals and each other. Its a book that could not have been written by a man.

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

I would think the obvious solution would be veganism, but who am i...

[-] wheez@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I mean the book surely has some response to this, otherwise it would be unreadable for me...

[-] gagcar@lemmus.org 5 points 1 day ago

Metaphors must be rough. Start out with the prequel “a Modest Proposal” by Johnathan Swift and maybe it will fill out some of the lore.

[-] BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Meat industry lobbied for it.

[-] 3daybanwithdrawl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

There is a lot of very unrealistic stuff in the book. People surviving procedures and operations nobody could survive, everyone accepting humans as food WAY too fast, ect.

[-] BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Meat industry lobbied for it.

[-] 3daybanwithdrawl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Idk why they don't just start eating impossible burgers.

[-] jade52@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

This book was weird and I loved it

[-] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I read this a while back. I like disturbing and dystopian books. This didn’t disappoint. I think I’m scarred for life.

[-] 3daybanwithdrawl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Also, the ending.....

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Considering that the US is about 30 days away from the hunger games, this sounds more like a prophecy than a fiction book.

[-] 3daybanwithdrawl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I just noticed you posted this comment exactly 30 days before the new movie is released...Was that intentional?

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

I had no idea there was even a new one coming out—I’m not really a fan of the series. I meant it more in the metaphorical way—that the US is 30 days away from forcing the poor to kill each other for the entertainment of the billlionaires.

We all know it wouldn’t be called the hunger games though. It would probably be called The Big Beautiful America 250 Make Combat Great Oh Say Can You See Third Term Trump UFC Red White Blue And Gold Extravaganza.

[-] 3daybanwithdrawl@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

They are starting to legalize putting homeless people in labor camps. I don't think things could possibly be worse. I realize that obviously they could but the path that we are on couldn't be more reprehensibly disgusting.

[-] 3daybanwithdrawl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The newest Hunger Games was also good.

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