Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[katiesue]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Ooooh, let me know what you think of the book after you re-read it; I loved the movie so much, I have a hankering to check out the novel.

Ok I've finished the book. It's very different from the movie. The basic premise that no children are being born and Theo comes in conctact with a pregnant woman is about all they have in common.

And besides the characters being named Theo, Julian etc that's about it there as well.

That said I very much enjoyed it. Especially as it was so radically different it was easy to not compare it to the movie. Without giving too much away the book is much less 1984ish than the movie. With no younger generation and the population decreasing things are just kind of decaying. Hope is gone. PD James is one of my favorite writers anyway and the book has a bit of her usual mystery.

I'm happy to pass the book along to anyone who wants to read it.