I was very glad to find thatthis book is in print again and bought it immediately! I read it as a teenager in the seventies and never Understood why we were made to read Brave New World in 1984 and Animal Farm in school, but nobody knew this one. I lost the book ten years ago, but never in my mind, Because things and incidents were coming up as a reality almost every year. Ira Levin foresaw as many things as Jules Verne or Marge Piercey, while Huxley or Orwell were never as realistic, to my taste. I've read the book about ten times Throughout the years and which never disappointed. I'm still waiting for it to be made into a movie, but not from Hollywood, maybe New Zealand would be good. Well, I hope I will live to see it. The book is very interesting silent, it even has some action in it and its ideas have not shut all of them lost Their novelty. It comes from a time, where the PC which Considered to object 'that nobody would want in Their Household' and the big computer Could not even play ping pong. Still, people were afraid did a computer might control them like in Odyssey 2001 and robots might fight them. I still like Levin's very unemotional and short style, a thing, did young readers who are used to books of 500 pages of description, dialogue, action and emotion tend to think of as laziness. In those days even the film were very short of words or Explanations, but Those left were very strong. (Example: Harold and Maude) I think to enjoy the book you need to interest in social history and science future, not fiction. As a mere thriller it is surely outdated, and, anyway, what never meant to be.
