Comments on: The Children of Men, P.D. James https://readingtheend.com/2009/07/05/the-children-of-men-p-d-james/ before I read the middle Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:35:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2009/07/05/the-children-of-men-p-d-james/#comment-13449 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:35:56 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=968#comment-13449 It slightly was my fault – I’d heard that this wasn’t the best of her books, but I was at the PD James shelf, and the library was about to close, and I had to grab one really quickly – should’ve just left it for another time. After I’d had time to think, and read her Wikipedia article, and make a decision. Oh well. I’ll get a better one next time.

]]> By: Jeane https://readingtheend.com/2009/07/05/the-children-of-men-p-d-james/#comment-13448 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:43:18 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=968#comment-13448 I liked the movie, but it sure sounds like the book is a disappointment.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2009/07/05/the-children-of-men-p-d-james/#comment-13447 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:41:31 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=968#comment-13447 In reply to Raych.

Right? Right? Why did she bother with it? It didn’t add anything to the plot to begin with, and then she got sick of it and abandoned it! I feel like an Institution in Mystery like PD James should have known better.

]]> By: Raych https://readingtheend.com/2009/07/05/the-children-of-men-p-d-james/#comment-13446 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:26:59 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=968#comment-13446 I definitely liked this a decent amount because dystopias are my bread and butter, but THE DIARY!!! WTFTFTFTFTFTFTFTFTFTFTFTFTFT! Either use the narrative device or do not use the narrative device, but do not forGET that you were using the narrative device.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2009/07/05/the-children-of-men-p-d-james/#comment-13445 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:22:12 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=968#comment-13445 The movie was completely different, what little I can remember of it. The main character was, um, was not blah – but honestly, when I said just that my main memories of the movie were all, Clive Owen is yummy, I was exaggerating very little. The pregnant girl wasn’t the love interest, and they amped up the jeopardy quite a bit. That was better than the book, but I still wasn’t really in love with the movie.

]]> By: raidergirl3 https://readingtheend.com/2009/07/05/the-children-of-men-p-d-james/#comment-13444 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:10:19 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=968#comment-13444 It just seemed like it should have been better. The premise was fabulous, but it fell a bit flat. The main character was too blah.
Was the movie better? I’ve heard it takes a different direction, which is what the book prob. needed.

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