http://www.stillhq.com The life, times, travel and software of Michael Still en Copyright (c) Michael Still 2000 - 2006 blosxom simplerss20 v20050208hh 180 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss /book/William_F_Nolan_and_George_Clayton_Johnson Tue, 05 May 2009 20:23:00 PST <table width=100%><tr><td valign=top><img src="/book/William_F_Nolan_and_George_Clayton_Johnson/Logans_Run.cover.jpg"><br/><br/><br/>ISBN: 0553025171<br/><a href="http://www.librarything.com/isbn/ 0553025171">LibraryThing</a><br/><script type="text/javascript">GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN: 0553025171');</script></td><td valign=top>Its all about the distopian future novel at the moment (I just finished reading <a href="http://www.stillhq.com/book/Harry_Harrison/Make_Room_Make_Room.html">Make Room, Make Room!</a> and <a href="http://www.stillhq.com/book/Robert_A_Heinlein/Friday.html">Friday</a>, both of which have a not-so-bright vision of the future). This book was turned into a movie as well, and is a lighter read than <a href="http://www.stillhq.com/book/Harry_Harrison/Make_Room_Make_Room.html">Make Room, Make Room!</a>. The future is equally dark here though, and I think the writing technique on display in <a href="http://www.stillhq.com/book/Harry_Harrison/Make_Room_Make_Room.html">Make Room, Make Room!</a> is better than the one used here. In places this book feels like a script outline. An example is during an escape sequence, where there is a single sentence describing how Logan escapes from a danger. There is no tension or insight -- just "Logan avoided the blah". Overall I thought this book was disappointing, with a premise that is hard to believe. <br/><br/><i>Tags for this post: book(<a href="http://www.stillhq.com/book"><img src="http://www.stillhq.com/tagicon.cgi?post=/book/William_F_Nolan_and_George_Clayton_Johnson/Logans_Run&tag=book&format=.png" border="0" alt="S"></a>) William_F_Nolan_and_George_Clayton_Johnson(<a href="http://www.stillhq.com/William_F_Nolan_and_George_Clayton_Johnson"><img src="http://www.stillhq.com/tagicon.cgi?post=/book/William_F_Nolan_and_George_Clayton_Johnson/Logans_Run&tag=William_F_Nolan_and_George_Clayton_Johnson&format=.png" border="0" alt="S"></a>) </i></td></tr></table> <a href="http://www.stillhq.com/book/William_F_Nolan_and_George_Clayton_Johnson/Logans_Run.commentform.html">Comment</a> http://www.stillhq.com/book/William_F_Nolan_and_George_Clayton_Johnson/Logans_Run.html http://www.stillhq.com/book/William_F_Nolan_and_George_Clayton_Johnson/Logans_Run.html