REVIEW: The Maze Runner - James Dashner
I had a really hard time getting into this book. I read it for book
club, and the consensus was that everyone had a difficult time getting
into it. Like with "Uglies" I wished that James Dashner would have kept a
thesaurus close by. I understand that these boys are isolated and they
are creating the words for the life they are living, but it became
incredibly redundant. There were times when I was screaming at the book
"OK I GET IT. THEY LIKE THE WORD SHANK." Also, by the end of this book
we were lead to believe that each one of these boys are incredibly
intelligent - so wouldn't they have multiple words for things? I hardly
doubt that Shank is the only word they would come up with to describe
each other.
With that said - I did eventually get to the turning
point where the book became interesting. The last half of the book I
zipped through - and it left me wanting to read the rest of the series
to get some answers. However, when I started the next book I quickly
realized it was just as frustrating as the first and could not finish
it.
The book is becoming a movie which will be released this
summer. I think it has potential to translate onto the big screen. As
much as I am not a fan of just "seeing the movie", in this case I might
just do that as I can not seem to get through the second book.
Goodreads stars: 3/5
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