The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1) in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

Sep 07, 2009 Sarah Sammis rated it liked it

Shelves: borrowed, read-in-2010, scifi

Back in March of this year Megan at Posey Sessions asked me to read The Maze Runner and write a guest post for her blog on some aspect of the novel. For the guest post, I focused on the maze.

Many of the reviews I've read compare The Maze Runner to Lord of the Flies by William Golding but I disagree. Yes, both are about boys forced to live together in a remote location under extraordinary circumstances. But that's where the similarities end.

In Lord of the Flies, the students crash land on an isla ...more

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Mar 29, 2010 Dracolibris rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2010, dystopian, ya-lit

Thomas wakes up in a creaking elevator with no memory of the personal details of his previous life. For instance, he knows how to ride a bike, but can not recall who taught him. And he knows enough to know that when he is pulled from the elevator, it is into a world that it is hard to believe exists, even in nightmares.

Welcome to the Maze.

Surrounded on four sides by stone walls hundreds of feet high, a ragtag group of teen boys has now been joined by their latest member- Thomas. And everything ...more

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Sep 23, 2014 Jen rated it really liked it

Shelves: booksfornephewsandnieces

Post-apocalyptic Lord of the Flies? Not sure how to sum up The Maze Runner succinctly. We open with our hero Thomas in darkness with vague memories of things like TV but none of people he watched it with. His elevator thing pops him into the Glade, where young boys have been deposited in the same boat. They are surrounded by a Maze, with big towering doors that close each night. Thomas is confused but rapidly adapting to his new environment 24 hours later when the Glade gets its first girl. Whaa ...more

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Dec 28, 2014 Ross rated it really liked it

Shelves: owned, fiction, science-fiction, young-adult, thriller, post-apocalyptic, monsters, 2014

I really enjoyed about the first 2/3 of this novel. After that I think the absurdity started to get to me, and my suspension of disbelief started to wear thin. At least I enjoyed it enough to want to read the next in the series.

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Jan 14, 2010 Elizabeth rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult, dystopian

YA book about a boy who wakes up in a lift able to remember his first name, Thomas, but nothing about where he came from or what is happening. He is pulled from the lift and finds himself in the Glade, a large farm populated by boys like himself in the middle of a maze which changes nightly. When the weekly supplies stop coming and instead a girl arrives with the message that everything is going to change Thomas needs to figure out what secrets lie hidden in his brain to get everyone out safe.

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Feb 28, 2014 Kati rated it liked it

Shelves: in-english, 2014, sci-fi, audiobooks, young-adult, bromance

4 stars for plot, 2 stars for execution.

The plot itself was really great, just like the setting. The boys in the middle of the maze, the maze itself, the idea behind the maze, the mystery of Thomas... excellent. But the execution...

The characters' mood swings were giving me a whiplash. Up and down, all the time. I mean, I get that they were teenagers, their reactions didn't ring true at times, though, especially Thomas', the writing felt... inconsistent.

Also, I think that this is one of the stor ...more

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Dec 02, 2009 Lakedaemon rated it liked it

Shelves: teen, rec-teen, sci-fi, apocalypse, survival, dystopia

Probably a good rec for teen boys. I didn't care much for the style of writing but it was ok. ...more

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Sep 10, 2013 Bryan457 rated it liked it

Shelves: psionics, stranded, juv-ya, dystopia

In the words of Thomas, "The frustration of getting no answers was beginning to grind on his nerves."

I did enjoy the story, in spite of its irritations. ...more

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