The Maze Runner (review)

I was pleasantly surprised upon finishing the YA novel, The Maze Runner, that all the reviews I could find were negative. It's a relief becaus I had every intention of writing a scathing review, but now I don't have to -- its a terrible book, but it has a plot that'll try to just motor you thru to the end, to the sequel.

I'm going to watch the movie, cuz that really has nothing to do with the book -- as in, most good books result in disappointing movies because there is so much to live up to. With the Maze Runner, here's hoping the reverse is also true.

Question: how long till we officially recognize the genre of 'Government Experimentation Novel?' I don't think they are going away any time soon. In fact, that's what drew me to Hunger Games, Divergent, & this piece of garbage. I'm even going to continue in the series, only because I want to read more novels in this genre, but can't easily find them, as the genre is not official in any way.

But it's so bad.

Am I really going to plow thru this tetralogy:

Alan Watts & Some Books I'm Reading

It's a little blurry.
For clarification, that's:

Rewire --  a brain book / healthy habit / science-based self help type thing.

Steve Jobs  -- biography.

Canine Body Language -- lots of pictures.

The Second Coming of Christ -- written by the same guy that wrote Autobiography of a Yogi, a book I don't really like that Steve Jobs happened to read multiple times.

The Glass Castle -- Family-based fiction; probably my least favorite of all the books I'm reading.

Living Downstream -- nonfiction book about cancer getting out of control in the United States.

&

My personal favorite, a book I've been meaning to read for a very long time. It's mentioned & referenced in so many other books -- Julian Jaynes' classic: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind -- all about how recent consciousness is & how recently in history humans used the word "god" to refer to the voices they couldn't integrate, coming from their own right hemispheres.