#44 in Dystopian
This Perfect Day
- 318
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“This Perfect Day” is a sharply drawn technocratic dystopia, worth reading above all for the world Ira Levin builds. Some readers value how it follows one life through all its stages and the protagonist’s slow break from what he has been taught; others find it a mix of familiar genre ideas. A disturbing scene of sexual violence, and what follows, has put some off.
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About the book
This Perfect Day is a science fiction novel by American writer Ira Levin, about a technocratic dystopia. Levin won a Prometheus Award in 1992 for this novel. This Perfect Day is one of two Levin novels yet to be adapted to film.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 50 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 25% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Dystopian average of 7.7. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 5 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 45 | 90% |
Frequently asked
How long is This Perfect Day?
It has 318 pages — shorter than 77% of the ranked books in Dystopian.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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