Up In The Air and Paradox reviews

I enjoyed Up In The Air - it was entertaining, thought-provoking, well made and performed.  However, it did fall back on the age-old idea that you need to find the right relationship to make you happy.  While I am very much a believer that the right relationship can increase your happiness, I also believe that people can be happy on their own, and also that they need to be happy on their own before they can really be happy with someone else.  So, it was a shame that the single lifestyle was yet again presented as lacking.  Still, I was delighted with the film's spectacular avoidance of a classic romantic cliche, which I had been fearing from the start and was sidestepped very neatly.


Paradox by John Meaney, on the other hand, turned into a bit of an incomprehensible slog for the last 150 pages, which was a shame as I had been rather enjoying it up until then.  The background and set up of the story were very entertaining - it was just the overly complex and techno-babble-ridden plot that derailed my motivation.