Day Care

by Russo

Augie, a student at Fairchild Academy, discovers too late that the school's celebrated method of turning children into super-achievers involves techniques of brain stimulation that produce dangerous side effects.

Genres: Horror

255 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

Reviews

[Arthur · Rating 5 out of 5]

Scary and accurate. The ideal state of which an education system controls its students. Written in 1985, Russo also wrote Night of the Living Dead which became a cult film classic. It's really a weird book when you see the kinds of technology Russo used, or for someone like me it's a trip down memory lane to read about some of the old technology we had in the eighties, like computers used without a mouse. But still today even we need to wonder at what will happen once technology is allowed to alter brain patterns. Augie wants to use it for revenge. The Academy to better the children into being ultra students.

[Wayne · Rating 3 out of 5]

A book about mind control from the man who brought us Night Of The Living Dead. The story goes back and forth between a psycho who was once controlled be the "Academy" a school for gifted children, to a family of three who's daughter is going to enter that school.
Like most of Russo's book's, it leaves something to be desired. The ending really disappoints. This could of been so much more. I would say that it was a passable time waster, but I wouldn't seek it out to hard.

[Mikepottz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Felicia loved the academy, a smart gifted 15 year old who loved to study but something was missing as soon as she left the secretive, expensive school. A freak sick fuck is able to hack into the schools gifted program and is able to control the students by transmitting a signal into their brains. One of the students is taken over and becomes a violent, sadistic rapist and smashed a skull in and rips apart a virgin. Another cuts of her father's dick and its strewn on a mirrored dressing table. NSA and FBI entangled in a race against the Russians for superior smart kids.

[Scott Oliver · Rating 4 out of 5]

A science foundation is using gifted children in a bizarre experiment to boost their IQ using electronic stimulation

In the meantime someone is trying to expose them in the most public way by forcing the 'receivers' in to committing terrible sexual and murderous acts

A pretty good, quick read, bit slow in the build up

[FredM2 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although this is not my preferred type of book, I read it from front to back. It kept me entertained. I was trying to figure out the plot and it kept me guessing. It was an interesting read.

[Joshua Sprinkle · Rating 4 out of 5]

The somewhat corny "Ultrachild" premise yields wonderfully lurid storytelling. This book was a fun read.

[Valerie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book.

[Cassandra Glissadevil · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.9 stars
What Russo did to stupid crowds of consumers with his seminal- Night of the Living Dead, he duplicates with helicopter parents and Day Care on amphetamines. Super achieving toddlers? What happened to free-roaming childhoods?