The Memory Police

The Memory Police

1994 • 289 pages

Ratings276

Average rating3.7

15

Profoundly beautiful and depressing. The idea of collective government enforced dementia makes this one of the most frightening stories I've ever read. I felt the loss of several of the items disappeared. Novels and photographs were particularly difficult. I love the story within this story. I was so invested in the typist and was worried we wouldn't get closure after novels left. I love that no one had any actual name as if that was something that disappeared before we came into the protagonist's life.

February 17, 2020