A review by anniedrows
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

3.0

For such a short book, it took me a long time to read this. I think the long delay in reading the last 40 pages highly improved the ending for me. I do believe there’s a lot of thought in this story, but there was so much misogyny, which could be attributed to the norms of the author’s age/era, but regardless irritate me personally and distract significantly from the story.

I mean really, when did women just want to hang out in the kitchen and cook when they moved to an entirely new area of the world? No, no, you go to work, honey, I’ll take care of the house and kids. We’re not sure where our clothes or furnishings will come from, so I may need to teach myself how to knit and use a sewing machine, but I got this, you go ahead and put on another play.