Well as you know I was reading The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. After a couple of chapters it started to confuse me and I didnt know what was going on so I decided to change books (again) and go for We Need to Talk About Kevin (WNTTAK, abbreviating it will be easier than typing out the whole title).
Plot: The book is about a boy named Kevin, just under 16 years old. He kills 7 of his felllow students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher. He is visisted in Prision by his mum and following a seires of letters to her ex husband you find out how Kevin was brought up and how he ended up being how he is now.
This sounds like an interesting book and since the story is told through letters its a different style from books I have read. That and I have been meaning to read this book for quite a while.
Happy Reading Everyone!
If anyone has any suggestions for different books please comment below.
Sunday, 6 February 2011
Saturday, 5 February 2011
Review: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
I must say this book is well written and you can easily tell this is the style of a 13 year old (sorry 13¾ year old) and this book would appeal to the younger audience or the older audience (as some of the references are set around the 80s so older audiences will get it).
Plot: Its just gone New Years Eve and Adrian Mole makes his new years resolutions (as so many of us do) and he documents his life through the years until he is 15 in which the book ends and leads to the further books (next being The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole. You hear from the prospective of a naive teenager just trying to get by and doesn't really know what is going on a lot of the time.
This book compared to the ones I have read is very light hearted and is a big break from the hard hitting serious books, which I don't mind, its just nice for a change in writing style. From the moment you read the first entry in the diary you can relate to him. You sympathise with him when he goes through the hard times but laugh when he says something that you would have done as a kid or when he really doesn't have a clue.
The layout is something which I have seen much of in books. The diary entries add that personal touch which is what the author was hoping to do. And as some of them are shorter or longer than others it does have that sense of what someone does with a diary. Unlike myself which had a diary 'when I were a lad' but only ever had a couple of entries in it, then didn't bother with it, only in a blue moon. But if I did write in it everyday it would be similar to Adrian's (apart from a few obvious points).
It is a nice read that I always look forward to reading. Something which is light, funny and if you want a break from the nitty gritty novels, this is worth picking up.
8/10
P.S. I shall be reading the whole series but won't be reading them all in one go. I do get bored of the same genre and style, I like to mix it up a bit.
Plot: Its just gone New Years Eve and Adrian Mole makes his new years resolutions (as so many of us do) and he documents his life through the years until he is 15 in which the book ends and leads to the further books (next being The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole. You hear from the prospective of a naive teenager just trying to get by and doesn't really know what is going on a lot of the time.
This book compared to the ones I have read is very light hearted and is a big break from the hard hitting serious books, which I don't mind, its just nice for a change in writing style. From the moment you read the first entry in the diary you can relate to him. You sympathise with him when he goes through the hard times but laugh when he says something that you would have done as a kid or when he really doesn't have a clue.
The layout is something which I have seen much of in books. The diary entries add that personal touch which is what the author was hoping to do. And as some of them are shorter or longer than others it does have that sense of what someone does with a diary. Unlike myself which had a diary 'when I were a lad' but only ever had a couple of entries in it, then didn't bother with it, only in a blue moon. But if I did write in it everyday it would be similar to Adrian's (apart from a few obvious points).
It is a nice read that I always look forward to reading. Something which is light, funny and if you want a break from the nitty gritty novels, this is worth picking up.
8/10
P.S. I shall be reading the whole series but won't be reading them all in one go. I do get bored of the same genre and style, I like to mix it up a bit.
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