Mazerunner
Jan. 23rd, 2013 11:09 pmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maze_Runner
This is one of the books I picked up on a whim because I liked the premise. I like books about mazes. And gods. And people like Ender Wiggin. And philosophy. And books that are thought provoking but not needlessly obscure, and have nice characters, and are funny in the characters or the descriptions, but don't have the literary equivalent of canned laughter. Make me a book with all of that and I'll be happy :)
This book had mazes. The protagonists wake up in a maze with no memory of how they got there, in a society of other children who had likewise woken up with no memory, and built a life around trying to find a way out.
And it was a reasonably good example of young adult dystopia, so I feel bad for bashing it just because it didn't live up to the things I wished it tried to do, but didn't. But I was horribly unsatisfied that the book wasn't really about escaping from the maze.
( Some spoilers )
This is one of the books I picked up on a whim because I liked the premise. I like books about mazes. And gods. And people like Ender Wiggin. And philosophy. And books that are thought provoking but not needlessly obscure, and have nice characters, and are funny in the characters or the descriptions, but don't have the literary equivalent of canned laughter. Make me a book with all of that and I'll be happy :)
This book had mazes. The protagonists wake up in a maze with no memory of how they got there, in a society of other children who had likewise woken up with no memory, and built a life around trying to find a way out.
And it was a reasonably good example of young adult dystopia, so I feel bad for bashing it just because it didn't live up to the things I wished it tried to do, but didn't. But I was horribly unsatisfied that the book wasn't really about escaping from the maze.
( Some spoilers )