Books like There Will Be Dragons

I really wanted to like this book. Imagine a society with no real hunger, poverty or war where the bottom suddenly drops out and people find themselves in a world for which they have no relevant skills. It sounds fascinating!Sadly, that is not the book that was delivered. The entire book seems to have been written by a hormonal and socially-awkward teenage boy. The female characters, especially, are one-dimensional and more objects of male sexual desire than anything else. Well, that and as a venue to talk about (ewww) menstruation or, "the curse," as they all quaintly call it. Their daily jargon and dialog seems to have been lifted from some late-1990s limited vocabulary, even though we are to believe this is thousands of years in the future.Between the detailed descriptions of female physiques (I wonder how many times I have read "pert, high breasts" or some derivation thereof) and the detailed descriptions of weapons and warfare, there isn't much to actually engage the mind or imagination.It's too bad, because this is potentially gripping subject matter -- and very relevant today. What *would* happen if even our paltry-by-comparison technology disappeared? How might people react to such loss? Unfortunately, there are no multifaceted characters to hold our attention. Boo.I give it one star for the imagining I did before I actually read it.