Third Quarter SSR

For my third quarter SSR book, I read the novel Delirium which takes place a little while into the future.  In this dystopian society, the most common feeling any human could experience: love, is a disease.  At the age of 18, the government forces every man and woman to go through a procedure to remove a part of their brain that makes them believe that feeling certain feelings for someone that you may or may not be compatible with, are completely and utterly wrong and could destroy the world.  After the given procedure, you are to be matched up (by the government) with someone who is 100% compatible with you based on your test results.

Because this book was meant to be written years into the future, I do not think that this novel will be read 100 years from now.  Although at the same time I feel as if it would be read just because maybe people in the future would wonder how people in the past (really the present) thought the future would be like.  But at the same time, I feel as though "the people in the past" thoughts would be long forgotten because of the century time gap.  A century from now, books may or may not even exist anymore which further explains how this book may not be read in the future.  Although the story behind the story of the power of love and what it can do to people is very powerful, and it shows when the main character, Magdalena (Lena), runs away and escapes the government's forces to be with a boy named Alex that she so forbiddingly loved.