Planet of the Apes

Rating:
Summary: Read it One Sitting
Review: This book was so good, I had to finish it once I started. It is very different than the first movie but a little bit like the remake. The book certainly has a better story than either of those two films.

In this one, the space travelers clearly go to a different planet in another part of the galaxy. They find a race of humans that have become dumb through laziness. The apes had evolved from pets to far more intelligent. However, Boulle makes them literally "apes" in that they can only mimic other things they have seen and thus have no original thoughts.

I would tend to disagree. If the apes had gotten that far along, I am sure their brain center that controls creativity would have too.