Gran idea, no tan buena ejecución. Suena a juez de concurso/reality show, pero es lo que pensé mientras lo leía. Voy a ser sincera y decir que lo comparé con la película todo el tiempo. Y es de esos casos en que fuera de ciertos puntos similares, en realidad ambos cuentan historias diferentes. Perso...
"Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling"...I have wanted to read this book for a long time. I loved the movie. I thought it was brilliant, exciting, suspenseful and terrifying all at once. It was everything the book should have been... but ...
The Children of Men is a book that paints a disturbing picture – if human beings ceased to be born, what would happen to the world? How would we continue to function, knowing that as a species, we are dying out? There are some sad, touching moments in this book – the mass suicide of the elderly (wil...
The premise and plot of this were terrific, but the development was clumsy and preposterous. A future of infertility strained credibility less than the way this novel unfolded. Not to say I didn't enjoy it. I do wish I hadn't seen the movie, even though the movie was inferior. How'd they get all tha...
While I thought the movie that was based on this work was very good, I found the book even better. Meticulous plotting, fully realized characters, and great descriptions of a society that has no future. I listened to the audio version read by David Case who was perfectly cast.
I love post-apocalyptic fiction. I will read basically anything that has that phrase in there somewhere, whether it is good or shockingly bad. I'm definitely not an expert, but I've dipped my toes in at least, and the funny thing is that I still don't have an actual favorite way the book goes. The d...
Very good dystopian novel. It is a big change from her mysteries, which are also quite good. I was intrigued by the vast differences from the movie. Both are excellent in their own way but I found the novel's ending to be more satisfying.
P.D. James is brilliant, and this book is good, but it should have been better. The setting is close enough to reality that the leaps of credulity she asks of us are harder to take than if the setting had been an alien planet or far into the future. There's also a vein of sexism running throughout...
I only guessed I'd read this. I can see now that I've watched the movie that I hadn't. The movie is dreadful. Since Manny says it is better than the book, I can only assume that the book hits a new low for PD James.
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