Read this book with an open mind. Don't decide you dislike it because of political position and you will enjoy a good story and a fast-paced read. Although it is not in the same class with "The Handmaid's Tale", it made me think of it and stirred many of the same emotions. We have been warned and lived in dread of a "1984" world for a long time. This is another cautionary tale worth reading. ( )

Un gobierno tirano y violento dirige un país al que antes llamaban América. Los ancianos, los enfermos y los que osan desafiarle desaparecen sin dejar rastro. Los niños pertenecen al Estado. Contra todo pronóstico, una joven pareja lo arriesgará todo para dar con la verdad. Pero ¿será quizás demasiado tarde? Emmeline ha crecido en medio de la terrible realidad de la República, un lugar que, después de la aplicación globalizada del programa conocido como Agenda 21, se ha convertido en un Estado sin presidente, sin congreso, sin tribunal superior de justicia, donde solo existe la autoridad y nadie recuerda la palabra libertad. Con dieciocho años y después de sufrir la separación de su familia, ha decidido descubrir la verdad. ¿Por qué los ciudadanos están condenados a vivir en espacios diminutos, aislados los unos de los otros? ¿Por qué raciona el Estado el agua, la comida y la energía de una manera tan estricta? Y sobre todo, ¿por qué los bebés no pueden ya crecer junto a sus padres?

Unbelievable that this could be the true aim of a UN proposal, but maybe not so surprising when you think about it. And the excerpts from the document is not very free market/freedom friendly... And this has come a long way, since 1993, or even 1972. Reminds me of the story about boiling a frog, by slowly heating the pot... ( )

a book with no end ( )

I was hoping for a great master peice like Beck's "Overton Window" and was saddened by the sequel that fialed to spun the rest of the series that was the ghost written "Eye of Moloch" This didn't quite wet that whistle.

Agenda 21 by Glen Beck with Harriet Parke, is clearly a completely original work by Parke that Beck wrote an afterward for. How she found her way into his world, I still dont' understand, and that's probably a book worth writing.

The story itself is a gripping tale about one of the last girls, Evaline, to have been raised by her parents withing the Republic previously known as the USA. The distopian future seems to be happening very soon in the future 2040 maybe? The explanation of how things got just so f'n bad in such a short amount of time was not well explained, probably because it wouldn't have held up. Set it 100-200 years in the future and we'd probably be OK. Evaline tries to learn about the "before times' but its not really legal to learn about it. She doesn't get to choose her mate, she doesn't get to have electricity, energy must be produced by here walking an energy board, and insted of Jetsonmobiles like the free market would give us, or the autobohn that state capitalism has given us, transport is done via a "Bus Box" which is basically a stage coach pulled by men like her father instead of horses, because animals are more important than people.

Even if this work is unbelievable the characters are good and worth reading for them alone. It is also worth reading for any liberal or leftists who actually wants to understand what their positions sound like to a conservative. ( )