Truth be told, i’ve never read farenheit 451. I just read some kind of adaptation of the book where everything was the opposite : the world was all about books and all the tech was banned. The heroine was a deaf and mute girl.
ok i found the novel. it’s a french novel published in 1998, i don’t think there is an english translation. the novel is called Virus L.I.V 3 ou La Mort des Livres. I read it a long time ago so i couldn’t remember the plot really well, but now that i read the summary, i remember that it’s not just an “opposite farenheit 451″.
in this novel, the world is divided between the Lettrés (people who only care about paper books and literature) and the Zappeurs (who only use screens and who sometimes get cybernetic implants to enhance some of their abilities). The Lettrés are the one who run the world, but a mysterious Zappeur has created a virus that “kills” books.
The heroine, Allis, is a deaf and mute girl. She’s a Lettrée but she has to use screens to communicate, so the leader of the Lettrés hires her to infiltrate the Zapper community and find out who created the virus and how to stop it. If i remember correctly, she convinces a group of Zappeurs that she wants to become one of them to be able to get a cochlear implant because she’s deaf (even though i don’t think she actually wanted it). and of course during her mission she realizes that the world is not as black and white as she thought, and she becomes friends with the Zappeurs.
anyway it was a novel targeted toward young readers so the story was pretty basic and there was a predictable romance, but the concept is cool and i remember liking it a lot when i was in middle school.
Is this Baby Boomers vs. Millennials: The Book? 😂 Though I’m sure it wasn’t generational im the book, since the heroine was a young Lettrée. It’s a cool concept!
Well if you want a generational conflict, there was also that french novel about young people under 25 y/o who start a revolution and start killing everyone over 25, and then Paris is divided in 2 cause it literally becomes a civil war.
The two main characters were a nonbinary person named Silence, the first to spark the revolution, and L’Immortel, a black boy determined to make Silence pay after they killed his girlfriend. And there is a war, and all the kids chose a new name for themselves and have become snipers, and the more adults you kill the more famous and respected you are.
The novel was very dark but from what i remember there was some deep and interesting reflexions on the generational gap, the way adults treat children, and the problems it can create.
I’m actually working on generational issues for part of my job and that’s super interesting. And a nb protagonist, wow! What was Silence’s pronoun in French? A French nb friend said it’s hard to find a working pronoun in their native language so I’m curious.
It’s also kind of sobering how English-centric our “international” discussions about books and fandom are and that there are whole trends and developments in other languages we’re missing. What gets translated is a tiny fraction of the whole.
Truth be told, i’ve never read farenheit 451. I just read some kind of adaptation of the book where everything was the opposite : the world was all about books and all the tech was banned. The heroine was a deaf and mute girl.
ok i found the novel. it’s a french novel published in 1998, i don’t think there is an english translation. the novel is called Virus L.I.V 3 ou La Mort des Livres. I read it a long time ago so i couldn’t remember the plot really well, but now that i read the summary, i remember that it’s not just an “opposite farenheit 451″.
in this novel, the world is divided between the Lettrés (people who only care about paper books and literature) and the Zappeurs (who only use screens and who sometimes get cybernetic implants to enhance some of their abilities). The Lettrés are the one who run the world, but a mysterious Zappeur has created a virus that “kills” books.
The heroine, Allis, is a deaf and mute girl. She’s a Lettrée but she has to use screens to communicate, so the leader of the Lettrés hires her to infiltrate the Zapper community and find out who created the virus and how to stop it. If i remember correctly, she convinces a group of Zappeurs that she wants to become one of them to be able to get a cochlear implant because she’s deaf (even though i don’t think she actually wanted it). and of course during her mission she realizes that the world is not as black and white as she thought, and she becomes friends with the Zappeurs.
anyway it was a novel targeted toward young readers so the story was pretty basic and there was a predictable romance, but the concept is cool and i remember liking it a lot when i was in middle school.
Is this Baby Boomers vs. Millennials: The Book? 😂 Though I’m sure it wasn’t generational im the book, since the heroine was a young Lettrée. It’s a cool concept!
“Whether the Andrea Gail rolls,
pitch-poles, or gets driven down, she winds up, one way or another, in a
position from which she cannot recover. Among marine architects this is known
as the zero-moment point – the point of no return.” –Sebastian Junger, “The
Perfect Storm”
Posts like this aren’t my usual fare, but there’s a lot of
readers on Tumblr. So y’all might be interested – or, if not, you really should
be.
On Monday, this went down:
That’s the bloodless, matter-of-fact, ho-hum business event
way of describing it. Let me paint you a different picture.
On Monday morning, every single Barnes & Noble location –
that’s 781 stores – told their full-time employees to pack up and leave. The
eliminated positions were as follows: the head cashiers (those are the people
responsible for handling the money), the receiving managers (the people
responsible for bringing in product and making sure it goes where it should),
the digital leads (the people responsible for solving Nook problems), the newsstand
leads (the people responsible for distributing the magazines), and the bargain
leads (the people responsible for keeping up the massive discount sections). A
few of the larger stores were able to spare their head cashiers and their
receiving managers, but not many.
Just about everyone lost between 3 and 7 employees. The
unofficial numbers put the total around 1,800 people.
People.
We’re not talking post-holiday culling of seasonal workers.
This was the Red Wedding. Every person laid off was a full-time
employee. These were people for whom Barnes & Noble was a career.
Most of them had given 5, 10, 20 years to the company. In most cases it was
their sole source of income.
today at the bookstore i asked the lady working if she had any lgbtq books that i could check out and her eyes magnified in what i mistook as horror and i thought i had offended her and then she said “i have a bag of lesbian fiction in the basement i’ve been waiting for someone to finally ask” and she all but burst down the stairs to get them for me
bless
“I have a bag of lesbian fiction in the basement” is my new go-to pickup line
L.J.'s Obsessions 