{"id":3998,"date":"2019-06-18T18:21:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T18:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/?p=3998\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T14:18:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T14:18:29","slug":"delirium-lauren-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/en\/2019\/06\/18\/delirium-lauren-oliver\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;DELIRIUM&#8221; by Lauren Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Delirium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3986\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Delirium-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Delirium-150x150@2x.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Delirium-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Delirium-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Delirium.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Delirium-300x300@2x.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Delirium-80x80@2x.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I love dystopian novels because I find the writer\u2019s point of view about the future exciting.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Oliver, the author of the trilogy DELIRIUM, believes that in the future, love is a disease and the people will be cured through a procedure. All of this is happening in 2091. It doesn\u2019t seem that far away.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>\u201cIn school, we learned that in the old days, the dark days, people didn\u2019t realize how deadly a disease love was. For a long time, they even viewed it as a good thing, something to be celebrated and pursued.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At eighteen-years-old, each person is evaluated by a group of evaluators (before they have the procedure to get rid of the so-called disease &lt;&lt;deliria nervosa&gt;&gt;) and for each of them, it will be matched four or five other people with a similar score. In the end, they will marry one of them.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>\u201cOf course you do hear occasional horror stories: cases where a poor eighteen-year-old is given to a wealthy eighty-year-old man.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span> ( &#x1f641; )<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for future-people, like in any totalitarian society, not everything is perfect.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>\u201cThat\u2019s one of the downsides of the procedure; in the absence of &lt;&lt;deliria nervosa&gt;&gt;, some people find parenting distasteful. Thankfully, cases of full-blown detachment \u2013 where a mother or father is unable to bond normally, dutifully, and responsibly with his or her children, and winds up drowning them or sitting on their windpipes or beating them to death when they cry \u2013 are few.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Even though all the books from the trilogy (\u201cDelirium\u201d, \u201cPandemonium\u201d \u0219i \u201cRequiem\u201d) were written before Donald Trump became the President of the United States, there is a common thread:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>\u201cFifty years ago the government closed the borders of the United States. <\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>The border is guarded constantly by military personnel. <\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>This is for our own protection.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Safety, Sanctity, Community. <\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>This is our country\u2019s motto.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kindle, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love dystopian novels because I find the writer\u2019s point of view about the future exciting. 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