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The Children of Men
by P.D. James
Mannnn, what happened to British people in the 80s to make them this weird? I mean I guess Thatcher but still.
This sucked in the same way that the comic version of V for Vendetta sucked, and latter Agatha Christie sucked, and Anthony Burgess sucked. Everyone's bored and no one's human and nothing will ever be good again and we can't even have an emotion besides weariness about it. Just... too many people taking that Orwell quote about the future of humanity being a boot smashing a face forever WAY TO SERIOUSLY. Some one build a time machine and travel back there and see if they're alright.
This book is also hard to pin down because I'm pretty sure we're not supposed to like Theo. But we see the world through his eyes. Instead of getting the loveable-scamp/oh-boy-I-see-where-you're-coming-from-but-also-you-are-messed-up effect one gets from say, Catcher in the Rye, Theo just leaves me feeling bleak. Everything is bleak. The world sucks, life sucks, not-life sucks, it all sucks. But not even sucks, because that's too strong an emotion for my boy Theo. We're bleak but we're blah about it.
The ending does not help. [spoiler] Was that supposed to be hopeful? Hopeless? Some sort of grown-up version of the end of The Giver but if both the options were horrible? [/spoiler]
2.5 stars but I rounded up.
This sucked in the same way that the comic version of V for Vendetta sucked, and latter Agatha Christie sucked, and Anthony Burgess sucked. Everyone's bored and no one's human and nothing will ever be good again and we can't even have an emotion besides weariness about it. Just... too many people taking that Orwell quote about the future of humanity being a boot smashing a face forever WAY TO SERIOUSLY. Some one build a time machine and travel back there and see if they're alright.
This book is also hard to pin down because I'm pretty sure we're not supposed to like Theo. But we see the world through his eyes. Instead of getting the loveable-scamp/oh-boy-I-see-where-you're-coming-from-but-also-you-are-messed-up effect one gets from say, Catcher in the Rye, Theo just leaves me feeling bleak. Everything is bleak. The world sucks, life sucks, not-life sucks, it all sucks. But not even sucks, because that's too strong an emotion for my boy Theo. We're bleak but we're blah about it.
The ending does not help. [spoiler] Was that supposed to be hopeful? Hopeless? Some sort of grown-up version of the end of The Giver but if both the options were horrible? [/spoiler]
2.5 stars but I rounded up.