The Children of Men

I barely remembered anything from the movie besides Clive Owen in a grey rubble world, so I had an open mind going into this. The book world is similar, a near future that is ridden with infertility. The dystopian premises is very interesting, what does it do to a society, a generation, when they learn they will be the last of humankind? When you're unable to bear children, destined to grow old without caregivers, destined to know that all your contributions to this world will ultimately be useless. While the world building is intriguing, the main plot and the main protagonist are less so. It depicts the transformation of a middle-aged snobbish Brit from resigned detachment to newborn hopefulness. Yet the narrative moves along sluggishly and gets lost in too many details most of the time. Spoiler alert: the last scene and last line of the book is quite similar to the ending of [b:Brideshead Revisited 30933 Brideshead Revisited The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder Evelyn Waugh https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1438579340s/30933.jpg 2952196].