The Children of Men in The Alternative Worlds

Jan 29, 2008 Sandi rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2008, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic-dystopian

I loved the movie based on this book. It was one of the best from last year. When the book came up on my Amazon.com recommendations, I thought I'd give it a read. There is no comparison between the book and the movie. They have maybe 4-5 plot points in common, that's it. The movie was great, and the book was great. They were just different.

"Children of Men" is a very thoughtful and thought provoking book. I'm not going to say any more. I don't want to give anything away. ...more

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Aug 22, 2009 Nicky rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: speculative-fiction, dystopia

This hovers between three and four stars for me, but ultimately gets three because it felt dry. I liked some of the imagery, and I liked the ideas, but the writing failed to have urgency for me. The lead-in was long, but that didn't make it tense for me.

I'm not saying it's not interesting to read, though. I polished it off in a day, in exactly the same way as An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. It just never caught fire in my head, never really became a compulsion to keep on reading. The characters n ...more

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Oct 02, 2010 Ryandake rated it it was ok

it's very rare for me to re-read a book and think: why in the hell did i like this book so much?

i remember i was so excited before the movie came out, dying to see what the moviemakers did with such a fabulous premise: people stopped having babies 25 years ago. dynamite! i so wish i'd thought of it!

and wow, all i can say is, the moviemakers did a vastly finer job with this great premise than P.D. James did.

James' protag, Theo (beloved of God!), is such a git. here humanity is reducing itself at ...more

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