Beach (UK Edition) by Alex Garland Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Beach (UK Edition)
Book Review: Anyone backpacking in jungle type areas will enjoy this book
Summary: 5 Stars
I've only 2 more days left in Bolivia, and I've chosen to spend them in the Yungas on a hippy-commune type hostel. The view is spectacular from this little place. There are mountains all around, and the rainforest lurks between them. The clouds move quickly, creating and ever changing atmosphere as the sun beats down on me while I am reading The Beach. This, perhaps means nothing to those who have never experienced the jungle, however it represents nearly 3 months of my life. I enjoyed this book because I could relate to it. I just wish I could find more books based on the back-packers experience. I remember the book and my trip fondly, and only wish that the both of them had lasted longer. Unfortunately I found that the ending (of the book) was a bit far fetched, but it was a great read.Book Review: Great idea disappointingly achieved
Summary: 2 Stars
The Beach is an Enid Blyton several get stoned in Thailand affair, with shallow characters and diary-style non sequiturs. It a wonderful, scary idea that just does not get the treatment it deserves.Book Review: Childish, simplistic, lacking in depth. A disappointment.
Summary: 2 Stars
Having come with a glowing recommendation, this was one of the most disappointing books I have read in the past year. Backpacker reared on Full Metal Jacket and airport bestsellers encounters suicidal traveler and hilariously stereotyped French couple and embarks on a quest to reach 'The Beach', where a commune of drop-outs and idealists have set up a hideaway. To cut a poor story short, several months of tedium follow, during which the narrator is ostensibly 'accepted' by a community which then deteriorates - almost overnight, and with no apparent catalyst - into laughable sub-Lord Of The Flies savagery. What was the significance of the French non-love interest? Why did these slightly dysfunctional but by no means homicidal hippies suddenly transform into a band of crazed zombies? Perhaps Five Go Mad in Thailand might have been a more apt title.Book Review: Brilliant - Need I say more
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm the sort of person who will read maybe 2-3 books a year because I find it hard to get into the storyline. This book though is the first that I have ever had trouble putting down, totally obsorbing from start to finish. Buy it!Book Review: Far too good for LEO
Summary: 4 Stars
This book came recommended as the ideal travelling companion for my Transcontinental trek accross America. The only trouble was that by the time the plane touched down in LA I had finished the book. If ever a book was more suited to travel, then I am yet to find it. My only critisism is not for the author but for Danny Boyle who has had the wisdom to cast monsieur Di Caprio as the lead in the silver screen version.