Shades of Grey
by Jasper Fforde · first published 2008
67% recommend33% critical
An astonishing, hotly anticipated new novel from the great literary fantasist and creator of Thursday Next, Jasper Fforde. As long as anyone can remember, society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. From the underground feedpipes that keep the municipal park green to the healing hues viewed to cure illness to a social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.Young Eddie Russett has no ambition to be anything other than a loyal drone of the Collective. With his better-than-average red perception, he could well marr
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…World. An inception-esque plot-inside-plot book, set in an almost Neuromancer-like setting. I love it. For Dystopian... Even though I have not read The Giver, just classification-wise I'd have to pick Shades of Grey (Jasper Fforde's book, not to be confused with another, numbered, similarly named book.) It was a thrilling read (I think it's the best novel I've read in the past 3 or 4 years, but well, I don't read…
on “Books to Read in a Lifetime” ↗Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. One of my favourite books ever!
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored” ↗…that has exactly the same plot and characters as The Great Gatsby, and as long as you use different sentences and names, it would not be copyright infringement (just look at the cookie-cutter ripoffs of Shades of Grey - and for each one that's published, the editor rejected 30 more). If you have a patent on some mechanism, nobody else is allowed to use that mechanism without your approval, and minor variations are…
on “Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain?” ↗