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We found 7 Reddit comments about Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.

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7 Reddit comments about Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron:

u/RawrCat · 6 pointsr/offbeatbookclub

The book I'd like to read this month is "Shades of Grey" by Jasper Fforde. This is not the "50 Shades of Grey" that everybody makes fun of. This is the first book in a new series by the author of the "Thursday Next" series.

Part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, Shades of Grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds. In a society where the ability to see the higher end of the color spectrum denotes a better social standing, Eddie Russet belongs to the low-level House of Red and can see his own color—but no other. The sky, the grass, and everything in between are all just shades of grey, and must be colorized by artificial means. ... ... -Amazon.com

So in a world where color reigns supreme, a good-guy cop starts to realize that the world he knows may not be the world as it really is. Sounds a bit like the Phillip K. Dick stories that have become... ahem... enjoyable theatrical thrillers. The "color=prestige" idea is intriguing, and I imagine Fforde manages to work it into the plot in some very cool ways.

What do you think?

u/TheOnlyHighlander · 4 pointsr/books

Shades of grey is just shitty literotica, if you want to confuse people I highly recommend Shades of Grey, just finished it yesterday and it was an awesome book.

u/SharmaK · 4 pointsr/Fantasy

Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey - I can't wait to read the rest of the series: http://www.amazon.com/Shades-Grey-Novel-Jasper-Fforde/dp/0670019631

u/Buyn · 2 pointsr/funny

Reminds me of a book I read... Unfortunately it's title is now close to an awful book's title, so it's hard talking about it without everyone thinking about the awful thing. But here go buy it.

u/calantorntain · 2 pointsr/TwoXChromosomes

> “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the X-rated fan-fiction novel based around the “Twilight” films, will soon be arriving in bookstores.

Nooooo. It's detracting from the fantastic book Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde.

u/doublarthackery · 2 pointsr/books

Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey. A book about living in a colortocracy.

http://www.amazon.com/Shades-Grey-Novel-Jasper-Fforde/dp/0670019631

u/REdEnt · 2 pointsr/trees

If your so inclined you could read Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde. Its a fiction novel about the life of a young man in a strange future earth where the people have developed selectively sensitive eyes where, for the most part, everyone can only see one color. The social structure is based around the spectrum of light with the Reds being the most common (actually the greys are but they are kind of treated in an "untouchable", from the old Indian caste system, kind of way) and the Ultra-Violets being the most powerful. Awesome book, I completely recommend it (and most anything else by Fforde too)