{4.5\/5} “Like many boys of my generation, I dreamed of becoming an art critic one day: the pure primal thrill of attacking a painting, the sheer visceral kick of savaging a movie or a poem. In my case, however, the dream turned into reality, for by my twenty-second year I was employed as a deconstructionist at the Wittgenstein Museum.”<\/p>\n
City of Truth<\/strong> by James Morrow, published in 1990<\/p>\n In Veritas everyone tells the truth. All the time, without fail — if you even think about the possibility of telling a lie conditioning will kick in and make you ill. When Jack’s son gets a terminal disease he decides he’s had enough — he needs to give his son hope. So he tracks down the dissemblers in order to get them to reverse his conditioning.<\/p>\n It’s a similar premise to The Invention of Lying<\/strong>. But that movie is worth watching and this book is worth reading.<\/p>\n It’s humorous all the way through, and points out flaws in our society.<\/p>\n It’s a novella, so it won’t take you long to read.<\/p>\n