THE CHILDREN OF MEN (P.D. James) - January 4/07

Sporadically interesting but mostly tedious, The Children of Men often feels like a 20-page short unnaturally stretched out to 300 pages. James is the sort of writer who presumably thinks he's good, but actually sucks. Too much description and too little action. It took me well over a month to get through it, which is a shame - given that the premise would appear to be a can't miss sort of proposition. ** out of ****