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"Que*ring Elementary Education," by William Letts, IV with a forward by Obama appointed Assistant Deputy Secretary for Safe and Drug Free Schools, Kevin Jennings
Thornbirds still gets me every time. I love it! THere have been others, some lately, some a while back, but I still love that one. The symbolism is so great.
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, I hope so:
Kafka by the Shore by haruki murakami.
What a ride that was!
Yes! I feel like this about most of Murakami's books, actually. He so perfectly blends fantasy and reality.
I've only read The Road by Cormac McCarthy and I was saying woah for pretty much the entire book... but not in a good way. I'm probably the only person who didn't like The Road. I don't appreciate his writing style (just my opinion).
It's such a beautifully written book. I was rolling along with it and being caught up in the entire story. Then, wham, it stopped me in my tracks with a turn of events that blew me away.
It's such a beautifully written book. I was rolling along with it and being caught up in the entire story. Then, wham, it stopped me in my tracks with a turn of events that blew me away.
Did you feel ripped off by the ending? I went woah all the way through the book - bought into it hook, line and sinker - and the ending was of course, completely unexpected.
My husband felt the same way. After we'd finished a few weeks of commenting to each other how wonderful the book was (and I am not arguing that it wasn't wonderful) we started to feel a bit suckered by the ending. I don't know where the writer could have gone with that book, or how the ending could have been different, but the kind of ending where 'it was all a dream' seems like a cheap trick, more about the writer falling in love with his own cleverness than the story.
The novel itself created controversy after it became a bestseller, because Martel didn't come up with the idea for the novel out of thin air - he swiped it from a 1981 novel Max and the Cats by Moacyr Scliar. Apparently the subsequent issues of The Life of Pi acknowledge the influence of Scliar, but the first one which I read, didn't.
I haven't read Max and the Cats but I would be interested in reading a review here by someone who has read both.
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