Just finished reading "The Children of Men" which disappointed me a bit. It's set in such an interesting world, no children are born in the last 25 years and the world is sort of resigned to the idea that this is the end.
Yet we barely learned anything about what happened after the year of Omega, no proper look into how they would keep civilisation going until the last people died, and what they were doing in terms of research. It was all just in the background while the story itself kept veering off to describe a childhood before Omega and the aborted (no pun intended) journey of the most unlikeable people you'll ever find.
Are there any books that have a similar premise to a dystopian world like this where there's a bit more action and less "middle-aged man keeps a diary about how special and smart he is"?
This is the discussion for the first 70 pages from the book.
I've finished reading a book of short stories by P. D. James and wanted to read some full length works by her. Any recommendations with what to start with? Thanks!
He listened again to the forest, to its secret life. Now the sounds, seeming to increase as he listened, were full of menace and terror: the scavenger scurrying and leaping on its prey, the cruelty and satisfaction of the hunt, the instinctive struggle for food, for survival. The whole physical world was held together by pain, the scream in the throat and the scream in the heart. If her God was part of this torment, its creator and sustainer, then He was a God of the strong, not of the weak. He contemplated the gulf fixed between Julian and himself by her belief, but without dismay. He could not diminish it but he could stretch his hands across it. And perhaps in the end the bridge would be love. How little he knew her or she him. The emotion he felt towards her was as mysterious as it was irrational. He needed to understand it, to define its nature, to analyse what he knew was beyond analysis. But some things now he did know, and perhaps they were all he needed to know. He wished only her good. He would put her good before his own. He could no longer separate himself from her. He would die for her life
This is the discussion for the pages 71-140 from the book.
This is the discussion for the pages 140-210 (or until the end) from the book.
