Planet Of The Apes: 200 Word Reviews #1
The Sci-Fi Classic
Planet Of The Apes is an unsettling story that examines what it means to be human, what it means to be conscious, through a planet where humans and apes have swapped roles. It is now men who are herded and hunted. It is now men that are tortured for the sake of scientific progress. It is a man from earth that arrives on this planet and threatens ape society with his very existence.
Pierre Boulle tells this story extremely well, with solid prose and pacing. He doesn’t lose his characters in his premise, and by the end they are well rounded and believable, though not so ground-breaking that you will remember them.
Planet Of The Apes contain some twist reveals, more than the famous 1968 movie, but I personally found that they fell kind of flat and were too easy to spot early on. As in, the last chapter reveal was clear from chapter one.
Despite that, I thoroughly enjoyed Planet Of The Apes. It is exciting, interesting and gritty. Boulle pulls no punches when fleshing out the implications of the premise, and it is a better story for that fact. I highly recommend for any fans of Science Fiction!
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I. D. Reeves
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