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A fascinating, if incomplete, dystopia. While I enjoyed it, it reminded me in certain ways of a French novel read in translation; the characters do not feel fully realized, but ths may be a stylistic choice–I haven’t read any other work by James.
Good, quick read…..
One can’t stop thinking about it. Man’s childrenare really a copy of man. They will never stop making the samemistakes with the same justifications. And the wheel keeps turning.
I just finished P.D. James’ The Children of Men. Like many, I came to this book after seeing the excellent film by Alfonso Cuarón based on P.D.’s book. Let me state unequivocally: if you are expecting to read the book version of the movie, you will be sorely disappointed.The book shares very little with the film. In fact, I can share the similarities with you. The premise is the same – humans can’t breed, there have been no births for over twenty-five years. The main character’s name is Theo. He has an elderly friend named Jasper. There is a character named Julian. There is a pregnant girl. There is a scene where a log is blocking a road. That about covers it.Now, one might think that this means the book was not good, however one would be wrong. The book is excellent, absolutely entertaining, shocking, and melancholy. The first quarter of the book reads like a beautiful eulogy for the human race. The characters are flawed, and so like real people. trapped in their unconscious programming and only change when the universe, or in this case, P.D. James, whacks them upside the head with the consequences of their actions. Actually, like the film, it’s dark, yet ultimately hopeful. And somehow it makes you wonder if perhaps it had been best if we’d died off anyway.I think it best, that if you’re coming to this book after having seen the film, you must erase your mind of the movie, and think of this as a completely different entity with only a few coincidental similar.
This novel, which begins some twenty-five years after humanity suddenly loses the ability to reproduce, is best read as a sort of fable, rather than as science fiction. Its scientific underpinnings are minimal: at one point, the POV character notes in his diary that certain key events struck people with the horror associated with black magic, which is appropriate given that any non-magical explanation is hard to imagine. The first publicized cloning of mammals took place soon after this book was written, and it’s hard to say whether the author could have found the relevant research if she’d cared and tried. I would wager that if the human race stopped having babies, we would quickly come to accept cloning as a stopgap solution to keep ourselves from extinction while we sought a more complete remedy.The story takes quite a while to get underway. The key plot point appears about halfway through, and I might not have made it that far if I had not known about it in advance. The first half of the book reads like literary fiction, a moderately interesting exploration of how humanity might react to this extreme situation. The book alternates, usually chapter by chapter, between first-person excerpts from the diary of Theodore Faron, historian and largely obsolete Oxford professor, and third-person narratives from Faron’s POV. It’s an interesting device, at least as James employs it: it’s hard to like Faron as he presents himself, but somewhat easier when we get partway outside his s.
I say “Perfect for this genre”, but I’m not really sure where I’d put this book. With the “end of the world” stories probably, but without the good vs. evil power struggle such as in
Ok, I’ll be honest, I’ve seen the movie first on this one and didn’t really consider the book till I read the excellent ‘The age of Aquarius’ by A W Findlay, and searching for similar themes I remembered Children of Men. While both books have a great sense of atmosphere and place – a vaguely recognizable world, displaced into a plausible dystopia which presents a grim world where you don’t know if there will be a happy ending or not…Either way it led me to the last page (i wont spoil it on either) pretty quickly…..
The film adaptation of this novel by Alfonso Cuarón is one of my favorite sci-fi films. The book shares the thematic underpinnings and basic characterizations with the film, but is very much a different work of art. Cuarón took the theme and central plot and painted a different interpretation of James’ world focused more on the external conflict rather than the one raging in Theo’s mind. James gives us a much more personal portrait of a man who, like the world around him, is slowly dying both physically and emotionally. His affection for history and the trappings of the world passing away are his only tentative anchors holding him in place. But when he meets Julian and her group of unlikely warriors of hope, his passion is rekindled and the spark of life once again is fanned to a flame. This is a story about life, death, the banality of our modern world and the importance of hope, however thin. It is a masterwork character study and I highly recommend it for anyone who enjoys rich storytelling, beautiful language, and deeply flawed characters.
What is wonderful about this book is how James’ characters evoke a palpable sense of cynicism which one realizes is perfectly understandable given the story’s circumstances. She does a beautiful job crafting a bleak, depressing reality to which the progenitor is at first not only resigned but a willing partner. But there would be no story if that did not change, and as the progenitor’s malaise is displaced by hope and life the pace and viewpoint of the book change, too. This book has a great premise, great plot, and great atmosphere. It’s the only one I’ve read by James and I really enjoyed it.
description of Rawlings, an investigator for the secret police:”I thought I understood his kind: the petty bureaucrats of tyranny, men whorelish the carefully measured meed of power permitted them, who need to walk in the aura of manufactured fear, to know that the fear precedes them as they enter a room and will linger like a smell after they have left, but who have neither the sadism nor the courage for the ultimate cruelty. But, they need their part of the action. It isn’t sufficient for them, as it is for most of us, to stand a little way off to watch the crosses on the hill.”The character does not have the power to insert the lance in the side, rather he’ll menace; perhaps he walks around the cross tapping his spear on the ground, or poking the man on cross.Most of us are content with a distant view. We dare not.Setting a scene:”Daylight, tentative and bleak, stole like a chill breath into the wood, wrapping itself round barks and broken boughs, touching the boles of the trees and the low denuded branches, giving darkness and mystery form and substance.”Hmmm, dark, threating and suspenseful.These are examples found on nearly every page of this book.Notwithstanding the story, the brilliance of the writing makes this a book one to own and study.