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E-book Title: The Disillusioned - A Story of our Times (R18)
Author: David W Scott
Book Description: "The Enlightened is a amazingly compulsive see just about what I call the Anomaly Generation - the one captivated at 1st by the challenge of rational economic science and then baffled by its effects. David Scott's odyssey is to find self-worth, to learn basic human values among the detritus of modern life. At the end you can't be sure he's ready-made it. But his story matters and he tells it with the pace and straightness of a pro."
Gordon McLauchlan, writer and book critic
The Enlightened is a ruthlessly honest memoir of a young man who writes some
searingly and disarmingly just about the highs and lows, the perils and promise of our times.
The Enlightened documents the struggle all too common for recent generations: yearning to find a sense of worth and a intention to their lives against the background of abuses rife in modern society and the duplicity of political systems which favour the rich and powerful despite the hollow rhetoric that promises thing
else.
The Enlightened encompasses three decades, beginning with the impressible child indoctrinated with the information of Thatcher's United kingdom and suffering sexual abuse, a lack of role models and any sense of belonging. It is a absorbing story of obsessional ambition, discrimination, sex, scams, self-destructive impulses, alcoholism, the search for love, loss and the quest for redemption in New Zealand.
It is David Scott's story, but besides the story of a enlightened silent majority; the story of young folk bogged down with financial obligation and disillusionment; the story, too, of the increasing dangers facing our children in a materialistic earth wherever
family bonds and values are sacrificed for high incomes and status. More... | 
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Reviewed by on 2009-03-26
My Rate 5
Tragic, funny and illuminating story
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