no surprises
Aug. 27th, 2009 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaideni am inevitably disappointed when i read a work that has been classed as literary fiction, yet has science fiction themes. still i continue reading them, hoping for another Iron Bridge.*
so, um, Children of Men (the book). all men in the world are suddenly infertile, and we are carefully told that the world supply of stored sperm has also gone bad somehow, yet we can't have one lousy sentence that mentions an effort at cloning. don't worry, the inevitable miracle baby is a McGuffin, and you will finish the book no wiser as to how it was born after 25 years of barrenness. this is totally another novel about a middle-aged guy who is well-off but miserable anyway and doesn't know how to love (down to the dead child causing a broken marriage in his past, yawn) tarted up with setting and politics.
i just grabbed The Time Traveler's Wife off the shelf to read next...
*oh wow, David Morse has stopped writing and dedicated his life to Darfur. whoa.
so, um, Children of Men (the book). all men in the world are suddenly infertile, and we are carefully told that the world supply of stored sperm has also gone bad somehow, yet we can't have one lousy sentence that mentions an effort at cloning. don't worry, the inevitable miracle baby is a McGuffin, and you will finish the book no wiser as to how it was born after 25 years of barrenness. this is totally another novel about a middle-aged guy who is well-off but miserable anyway and doesn't know how to love (down to the dead child causing a broken marriage in his past, yawn) tarted up with setting and politics.
i just grabbed The Time Traveler's Wife off the shelf to read next...
*oh wow, David Morse has stopped writing and dedicated his life to Darfur. whoa.
