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[PDF / Epub] ☂ The Beach By Alex Garland – Citybells.co.uk On Richard's first night at a backpackers' hostel in Bangkok a mysterious traveller commits suicide leaving Richard a map to the beach An idyllic secret island the beach is a legend among young travelIsland The Beach is a legend among young travellers But paradise isn't always what it seemsA compulsive first novel by Alex Garland now a blockbuster film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as RichardPenguin Readers Level
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Download Book Ý The BeachÛ Alex garland The BeachI really have no idea how to describe this book it was mesmerising Richard a British backpacker arrives in Bangkok and on his first night in a hostel is given a map that leads to a so called Eden a secret beach that few travell
Download Book Ý The BeachÛ Alex garland The BeachI will defend this book's subtle intelligence to the ends of the Earth Garland's performative act seducing us with the myth of perfect travel deftly balancing the naive hypocrisies of Westerners rooting out the exotic in the East creates a brutal ending that recasts what had led up to it While Garland could have easily stopped with a cautionary tale he went further by lacing his character's thoughts not with literary allusions but filmic ones Which 20 something British kid wouldn't think of Apocalypse Now while foraging through the jungle in ThailandAlso this title's in my Desert Island picks because it doubles as a survival guide Did you know you can clean your teeth with twigs
Download Book Ý The BeachÛ Alex garland The BeachHaving never heard of Alex Garland I picked up his debut novel The Beach because the cover and premise were intriguing I'm happy to say that Mr Garland delivered exactly what he promised and I breezed through this little yellow book in two days If Jack Kerouac wore shorts and hung out w
Download Book Ý The BeachÛ Alex garland The BeachGreat bizarry chilling story keeps you turning the pages til the end In the top of my booklist definitelyNote 2018 after this book came up again in my goodreads library another 'classic' which I really found intriguing back then Need to reread definitely
Download Book Ý The BeachÛ Alex garland The BeachI basically devoured this book Started on Friday finished by Monday Part of it has to do with the way the book is written short three to four page vignettes that make it easy to say Oh I'll just read one but a larger part has to do with the momentum of the story it doesn't really ever let up i was never bored reading this book in fact I almost compulsively needed to know what would happen next The whole thing kind of plays out like a really well done summer popcorn movie Two devices I particularly enjoyed were
Download Book Ý The BeachÛ Alex garland The BeachFind all of my reviews at I knew about The Beach before beginning is that it was a movie I never watched starring little Leo that was released about 72 years ago and that it seems to be on many “if you want to call yourself a bibliophile you better read this” type of lists Now that I’ve checked it off my reader’s bucket list I’m a bit at a loss for what to say This is a story that had A LOT of things that I typically enjoyPotential utopia that eventually turns CheckA narrator who continually has you asking CheckIdiots abroad who stumble across a giant pot farm So why the mediocre rating Well it also had some things that I don’t typically enjoy such as a lot of underlying politicalsocial messag
Download Book Ý The BeachÛ Alex garland The BeachI really wish the copy I read didn't have shirtless Leonardo DiCaprio on it
Download Book Ý The BeachÛ Alex garland The BeachI've never seen this movie but I have seen the commercials for it I have always thought this book was a thriller and picked it up based on that assumption But It wasn't Or it mostly wasn't The last 25 pages minus the epilogue were thriller esue but that's not what this story is about What was it about I'm not really sure It feels like one of those books that are kind of infinitely interpretable Every person who reads it may see something different in it For my part I didn
Download Book Ý The BeachÛ Alex garland The BeachStarted finished this within 5 days Fantastic i LOVED it Much darker than the film
Download Book Ý The BeachÛ Alex garland The Beach The Beach was the 1996 debut novel by Alex Garland a British writer who's gone on to pen the screenplays for an impressive bunch of UK produced science fiction films Garland authored 28 Days Later 2003 and Sunshine 2007 adapted Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go 2010 as well as the comic book Dredd 2012 the version that w