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oscard99 's review for:
The Children of Men
by P.D. James
Too many reviewers, especially on this site, give this book a poor reputation, especially compared with the very popular film. I went into it without watching the movie adaptation, and can say that was a very pleasantly surprised. Yes, it's fair to say that this novel has scarcely any plot for about 2/3 of it, and only at about page 200 do events actually pick up, but I can truly say I was never once bored. It is clear that James was fully able to keep a reader intrigued throughout the book, most likely due to her previous work within the mystery genre, and the way it explores a different kind of dystopia, one caused not so much by a corrupt regime but by nature itself, is in itself remarkably creative and interesting. Funnily enough, my one criticism is that the novel actually drops in quality as events pick up, and I found myself less interested by Theo on the run than I was by Theo moping around the streets of Oxford. But that shouldn't worry a potential reader, as I'm sure everyone else disagrees with me.