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Alex Garland


Born
in London, England, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1970

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Alex Garland (born 1970) is a British novelist, screenwriter, and director.

Garland is the son of political cartoonist Nick (Nicholas) Garland. He attended the independent University College School, in Hampstead, London, and the University of Manchester, where he studied art history.

His first novel, The Beach, was published in 1996 and drew on his experiences as a backpacker. The novel quickly became a cult classic and was made into a film by Danny Boyle, with Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Tesseract, Garland's second novel, was published in 1998. This was also made into a film, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In 2003, he wrote the screenplay for Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, starring Cillian Murphy. His third novel, The Coma, was published in 2004 and ...more

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Average rating: 3.9 · 117,432 ratings · 5,649 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors
The Beach
3.99 avg rating — 97,519 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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The Coma
3.39 avg rating — 9,329 ratings — published 2004
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The Tesseract
3.34 avg rating — 8,003 ratings — 68 editions
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28 Days Later
4.12 avg rating — 1,189 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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Ex Machina: Screenplay
4.32 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions
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Sunshine: A Screenplay
4.12 avg rating — 347 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Annihilation: The Screenplay
3.77 avg rating — 164 ratings — 4 editions
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Never Let Me Go
3.99 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Dredd: The Screenplay
4.03 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2012
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28 Years Later: The Screenplay
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“Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley”
― Alex Garland
tags: alex, garland, horror, the-beach
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“When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.”
― Alex Garland, The Beach
tags: infatuation
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“If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.”
― Alex Garland, The Beach
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Polls

August 2016 New School Group Read

 
  44 votes, 25.4%

 
  20 votes, 11.6%

1966, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 176 pages
 
  17 votes, 9.8%

1931, The Waves by Virginia Woolf, 297 pages
 
  16 votes, 9.2%

1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 432 pages
 
  16 votes, 9.2%

 
  14 votes, 8.1%

1963, The Collector by John Fowles, 282 pages
 
  12 votes, 6.9%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  9 votes, 5.2%

1990, Possession by A.S. Byatt, 555 pages
 
  8 votes, 4.6%

1996, The Beach by Alex Garland, 436 pages
 
  5 votes, 2.9%

1948, Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, 320 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

1949, The Way West by A.B. Guthrie Jr., 352 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

1942, The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas, 528 pages
 
  3 votes, 1.7%

1924, Precious Bane by Mary Webb, 328 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.6%

173 total votes
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