The feeling that you're just going to die if the relationship doesn't work out. The carving of your boyfriend or girlfriend's name into your desk and hiding it so you don't get in trouble. What is Delirium About and Why Should I Care?Īh, the blossoming feelings of first love. We don't live in Lena's dystopian society… yet. The book is almost always better, so now that there won't be a TV show, you have no choice but to read the book. But Fox rejected the pilot, so maybe the first steps to ban love are already being taken. Oh, and Delirium was set to be a TV show with Lena played by Emma Roberts, who is famous for the Nickelodeon show Unfabulousand for being Julia Roberts's niece. We think the story is really more of a makeout-ology than a trilogy, but the word 'makeout-ology' would probably be banned in Lena's world. There are also three novellas that take place between the big doorstopper books, including a prequel. Stop in the name of love, indeed.ĭelirium is the first book in a trilogy, which continues with Pandemonium, and concludes with Requiem. But after meeting the cutest boy in town, our narrator Lena is determined to evade the authorities and live her life as she chooses. Published in 2011, Lauren Oliver's Deliriumportrays a world where love is against the law. So, take two parts melodrama, one part teen hormones, and a dash of dystopia, and you have the recipe for Delirium. And they dictate pretty much every other aspect of people's lives while they're at it, all while claiming these extreme measures are necessary for the good of the public. In this society, the government labels love a fatal disease, and develops a cure for it. But it's also the perfect concept for a young-adult novel with a seventeen year-old heroine living in a grim future society. What if we gave up the right to love? If this idea sounds sensational, it is. Whether you agree with these safety measures or not, they are totally the kind of thing great writers like George Orwell worried about.

National Security Agency is monitoring what we do on the interwebz. In the name of safety, we let airport scanners and Transportation Security Administration agents scrutinize us to make sure the only heat we're packing is the bicep muscle kind. (Maybe that's why we didn't get the job at the fitness center.) We give up certain rights when we travel as well.

We give up our privacy every day on Facebook, like when we post about hitting up every donut shop in a five-mile radius on National Donut Day.

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