Go FutureMouse! Next up: FutureNovel!To me, reading White Teeth felt like flipping through the TV channels and researching every show online simultaneously. White Teeth can be seen as a Digital Age novel, in my opinion, because of its spastic storyline, excessive multitude of characters, and its basic randomness. It satisfies the Digital Age's rampant ADD, running a story until its just about to bore you to death then switching pace, switching characters, throwing something new and exciting in. The novel was dense, but in a very different sense than Ivanhoe or something. It flashed its plot like pixels across a screen, information being lapped up and stored and filling us to the brim.
Then, of course, there's always FutureMouse. Everything from this genetic marvel's tail to his whiskers is Digital Age. Our fascination with genetics and playing God is emphasized in Marcus's big project. And the issues with these things are brought up by illustrating Millat and Joseph's problems with it. On Millat's side, there's the issue of creation: can and should we play God? And on Joseph's: should we really exploit innocent creatures in order to further our understanding?
Okay, this really excited me. As I was searching for something on Google, I stumbled upon this: White Teeth was turned into a four-part television show! Who votes that we should watch it in class? *raises hand*
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Yeah, I was aware of the BBC mini-series. Not sure how to get it AND I'm more than a little scared that it would somehow diminish it. So much of my experience of the book is Smith's voice and intellect.
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