Minority Report (Read a Great Movie)

Paperback, 304 pages

Published March 24, 2005 by Orion.

ISBN:
978-0-7528-6431-0
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OCLC Number:
57380509

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4 stars (11 reviews)

In the world of The Minority Report, Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of crime. He is the originator of the Precrime System, which uses "precogs"--people with the power to see into the future--to identify criminals before they can do any harm. Unfortunately for Anderton, his precogs perceive him as the next criminal. But Anderton knows he has never contemplated such a thing, and this knowledge proves the precogs are fallible. Now, whichever way he turns, Anderton is doomed--unless he can find the precogs's "minority report"--the dissenting voice that represents his one hope of getting at the truth in time to save himself from his own system.A film version of The Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, will be released this summer--further proof of the enduring appeal of Philip K. Dick's visionary fiction.From the Hardcover edition.

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4 stars

Every once in a while, I go back and read a Philip K. Dick story. The Minority Report is familiar to a lot of folks because, as the jacket proclaims, it's a major motion picture!

Reading this very short novel reminded me how Dick's plots can urgently drive the reader forward, despite the bare-bones writing. Philip Dick could not write decent dialog, never developed characters or their relationships with others, and often let his plots fizzle out before the end. Fortunately, this story line is a succinct one.

Precrime commissioner John A. Anderton ( not a typo) relies on three precogs to predict future violence so that it can be prevented. These precogs are individuals born with bad birth defects who were at first considered to be profoundly retarded, and Anderton refers to them as idiots or monkeys. This made me wince, and I wonder how people felt about Anderton …

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