I read this many years ago and it stuck. It feels closer to coming true as time goes by. Greed and hubris and the end of the world as we know it---not a pleasant story with pleasant characters, but memorable. It is available on Project Gutenberg since the copyright wasn't renewed (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24246).

Pretty sure this author is a misogynist. Look at page 151: . . . "in frantic joy women were raped in the streets . . ." ( )

anticapitalist, feminist satire better than it has any right to be. posthuman sublime rarely rendered better. highly, highly recommended. ( )

I know--its a classic PA book. If you're a PA fan you have to like it. But-I just didn't. The story isn't really PA. The focus is on the idiot main character who's a scam artist, slacker and degenerate. Often the book focused on him and had nothing to do with the out of control growing grass that was destroying cities, etc. Who wants to read a PA book about a slacker? I don't.

The (very infrequent) portions of the book that focused on the grass and civilization's attempt to stop its advance were interesting and engaging. However--if you're reading this book for a PA theme--you'll be as disappointed as I was.

The book focuses almost entirely on the manipulative jerk main character and how he skated through life, taking advantage of every possible situation and scamming people. The grass isn't even a close second in the storyline.

Let others waste their time on this "PA Classic" and read Alas Babylon or On The Beach or the other PA classics that truly deserve the acclaim. ( )

This is a story of an egotistical huckster of a salesman and a well-intentioned but careless and impetuous female scientist who together destroy the world by covering all the land masses with Bermuda grass.

Greener Than You Think lampoons the human propensity for self aggrandizement. This was a difficult book for me to read because of how much I despised the lead character, Albert Weener. Weener possessed nearly all the repulsive, shameless, appalling and vile human deficiency. And what few he didn’t possess, the other characters in the book more than compensated for. The few human virtues presented by the author were realized by the novel’s characters too late to have any impact on anyone or anything. If the author’s assessment of humanity is correct and we are all Albert Weener, then humanity’s future is infinitely darker than you think. ( )