Review: Incredible Must Read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2011
2032 is witty, smart, irreverent, terrifying, and a little too possible. At first it reads like an unlikely but entertaining science fiction but it descends into a dark, mad, place. When it feels like it can't get any worse the author gives us a breath of air in the middle of the madness that I hope is an unlikely future.There, in the middle, is the normal life of sadness, heartbreak, disappointment, young love, envy, and absurdity. When you've recovered enough from the terror of the global governments bee keeping strategy (yes, even beekeeping is the thing of nightmares) you find yourself moved by the tender love of a mother's remembering heart and a fragile fallen leaf. But then, maybe the normal life is the beginning of the dystopian nightmare. Or maybe we're in the middle of it already.Anand can terrify and touch the heart with equal skill. That would be enough talent for most writers, but this book has some of the most laugh out loud funny bit's I've ever read. Anand writes realistic humor from internet forums to the home shopping network to the world's most inept father. You might say you have to laugh to survive, because in all honesty the reader is trapped like the man on night watch: we don't have the clearance-Anand won't tell us what button to press to save us.But even when the very last shred of hope seems lost, I was left thinking that the terror wouldn't win. Because a mother would still remember her lost infant and an aunty would still comfort her hurting niece and the insurgents will never give up.