Blind Faith

By: Ben Elton

Narrated by: Glen McCready

Brought to you by Penguin.


Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion.

Trafford wouldn't call himself a rebel, but he's daring to be different, to stand out from the crowd. In his own small ways, he wants to push against the system. But in this world, uniformity is everything. And even tiny defiances won't go unnoticed.

Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a sex-obsessed, utterly egocentric culture. In this world, nakedness is modesty, independent thought subversive, and ignorance is wisdom.

A chilling vision of what's to come? Or something rather closer to home?


© Ben Elton 2007 (P) Penguin Audio 2009

Interesting dystopia with its flaws

This book has some interesting pluses and minuses. It seems to be an odd combination of a dystopian future where televangelists make it to the UK and mix in with rampant social media addicts to create a dystopian future somewhere close to a hyper religious version of idiocracy. The main character is also a religious zealot, but one of the few remaining followers of science...not necessarily the scientific method, but the idea of science and humanism as their god.

I did like the book but it was brought down by a few grating monologues and excessive dialogue. The reader was excellent...maybe too good as he made some of the more obnoxious characters so annoying that I wanted to pause and give my head a break.

A rendition of 1984. Ben

Ben Alton modern rendition to Goerge Orwell’s 1984. The story is so similar although set in the hell version of social media. It’s interesting but very predictable. Excellent narrator.

So realistic - almost painful

This is a valid dystopia where our society is headed. it’s so well written, and unfortunately seems more and more realistic that at times it is painful to listen to the next chapter.
A book that could well extend the list of great dystopian novels like 1984, Brave New World, Clockwork Orange, … adapted to current developments in the human condition

Hard to read

Well to be honest the story is a cautionary tale about societies addiction to ones self! So for me this book was hard to read/listen to it has some very crude language and talks about sex in a very demeaning way. I found it very tasteless and provocative. The story could've been great I really thought it the author could've written a better story with some of his ideas. I felt the author sees the absolute worse in people! And that's what I had in the front of my mind the entire time with this book.