Publisher: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPublication Date: 20 April 2009
ISBN: 0547225490
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 160
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Place(s) Traveled to: Futuristic Island in a Post-apocalyptic world
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Genesis by Bernard Beckett is one of those books in which is best to know nothing about it before starting to read it. So for that reason I have not include a synopsis here on my blog. As Genesis is a short book, weighing in at only 160 pages, its hard to say too much about it without giving anything away. Its also a book in which I've only heard rave things said about it so I was eager to read it. However, the high price tag (retails at $20, ebook at $14) made me pause at actually buying it. Thankfully my local library had a copy so I was able to borrow it.
Initially I found this book hard to get into and so it took me longer to finish than it probably should have. I also found the story to be a bit predictable. I didn't find much fresh or new about it compared to books that have a similar storyline. There were some thought provoking aspects of it but overall they didn't really win me over to the story as a whole. I liked it, but I didn't love it nor do I think this is one that I would recommend to any dystopian lovers out there. Mainly because as I said above, there isn't anything fresh to this story. The world building was a bit underdeveloped as to where the inhabitants of this island were now. But the history of the world was pretty fleshed out and I did enjoy learning about that. In some ways I think that this story might have done better if it had more pages with which to tell it in. What about you? Have you read Genesis? What did you think about it? Let me know in the comments below.
Initially I found this book hard to get into and so it took me longer to finish than it probably should have. I also found the story to be a bit predictable. I didn't find much fresh or new about it compared to books that have a similar storyline. There were some thought provoking aspects of it but overall they didn't really win me over to the story as a whole. I liked it, but I didn't love it nor do I think this is one that I would recommend to any dystopian lovers out there. Mainly because as I said above, there isn't anything fresh to this story. The world building was a bit underdeveloped as to where the inhabitants of this island were now. But the history of the world was pretty fleshed out and I did enjoy learning about that. In some ways I think that this story might have done better if it had more pages with which to tell it in. What about you? Have you read Genesis? What did you think about it? Let me know in the comments below.
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Thanks for your review - I don't think this is for me.
ReplyDeleteBummer -- Maybe I'm just not that experienced in the genre, but the ending totally surprised me. It was the ending I think that made the book for me. I liked the philosophy and the discussion in the middle. As I read more in the genre, my opinion of Genesis may change.
ReplyDeleteI read a lot in the genre, and I was still surprised by the ending, and it also made the book for me. I also wanted to know what was going on in the outside world, but that we never got that info didn't make me like what we did get any less. This is actually one of my favorite dystopian novels, and I recommnend it all the time to other dystopian lovers.
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