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The Maze Runner

The Maze Runner, Book 1

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When the doors of the lift crank open, the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name. But he's not alone. He's surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade - a walled encampment at the centre of a bizarre and terrible stone maze.

Like Thomas, the Gladers don't know why or how they came to be there - or what's happened to the world outside. All they know is that every morning when the walls slide back, they will risk everything - even the Grievers, half-machine, half-animal horror that patrol its corridors, to try and find out.

©2009 James Dashner (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

It was enjoyable but not ultimately satisfying. It asked so many questions but without enough real substance to be though provoking, mostly just hinted at big things to come. Not as clever or exciting as I was hoping for.

If this book were a film would you go see it?

I believe it is a film, the film being due out was one of the main reasons I decided to read it.

Any additional comments?

Its the first of a trilogy and it was certainly written to be one in that its got a lot of filler to bulk it out but doesn't feel complete. Its not readable as a stand alone book but nor is it really interesting enough to merit the time of reading the other two.

Quite a long book but with no real answers

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I really liked the world described in this book but I didn't feel connected to the characters.

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a really good and exciting story. i cant wait for part two. the narrator was full of emotions and easy to listen to

a really good and exciting story.

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Excellent book, cant wait for the second.

Although it was an American Narrator his accents were fantastic, really giving imagery to the characters.

excellent book, cant wait for the second

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So they gathered around a hundred teenagers of above average intelligence and exactly one of these was a girl? No justification attempted for this which is unacceptable in 2020. It’s like the hunger games meets Peter Pan, but with terrible two dimensional characters.

Lazy 2D young adult fiction

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