Alex Garland, The Beach Review

Overall Rating

Everything about it is good!

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The Beach by Alex Garland is so fast you won't feel like you're reading a novel at all! The pace whizzes along, with a fantastic plot and many underlying themes and messages to spice things up. I won't give away too much, but it's about Richard, a young man from the UK who sets off backpacking in Thailand. The guy in the next room commits suicide, leaving him a mysterious map... sounds corny but it really isn't. Read it now!