because my sister bought a copy and I've seen the movie loved it by the way im really into traveling and I thought I might ask what everyone else thought of it.
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People's Answers, Critics, Comments, Opinions :
Answer 1 :
I read it four or five years ago. I liked it well enough, but wasn't blown away by it, mainly because I didn't like the main character (who I thought was incredibly selfish) enough.
Answer 2 :
yes read the book, after seeing the movie. I thought Alex Garland had really tuned into something, even more evident in the book.
Answer 3 :
This is a novel which promises a great deal, but never quite delivers in the end. The individual relationships - between Richard and the beautiful Francoise, between the various members of the community - and the sense of spiralling insanity on Richard's part, are sketched out brilliantly, giving the best parts of the novel an edge of real menace and drawing the reader completely, if temporarily, into the hermetic world the novel creates and occupies. But it's as if Garland, when it comes to it, is afraid to stick the boot in where needed, as if he loves some of his characters rather more than they deserve. The potentially explosive mix never detonates with the power you would hope for. The author is only twenty-six, however, and that he needs to learn ruthlessness is explicable and, given the many true qualities this book has, almost forgivable. Despite its flaws, The Beach is an engaging and interesting debut by an author who shows enormous promise. A little more ice in his heart and he'll surely do great things.
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