If I had to describe Travel Bug in a word it would be “Edgy”, thought-provoking also comes to mind. David Kempf takes you someplace in this novel I’m not sure every reader is ready for. Moving fluidly through space and time the story line brings you effortlessly through several narratives, some of which that may lay on the darker side of man’s heart. A touch dystopian, a heavy heaping of science fiction and a good dose of exposing the flaws in the human condition, Travel Bug will keep you thoroughly entertained from the first page to the last and then wanting more, it even may keep you up at night. When a book’s plot is constructed in layers and has dimensions that will leave you discovering something new even after you’ve read it for the tenth time, it’s a true sign and testament to the intelligences of the author. …show more content…
Kempf’s reading style is also a strong positive to this novel; he uses a fair amount of transitional phrasing and adjectives to really paint a vivid picture for the reader. A lot of sifi readers don’t properly portray their vision of the fictional world they’ve created and therefore it becomes hard for the reader to correctly envision where the author wants to take him or
...onally transposing indirect to direct quotation, putting words into people mouths and blending two separate eye witness's accounts. How can one read a novel for knowledge gaining purposes when the structure appears so flawed? The use of modern and old English are combined in the sentence structure. The highly academic vocabulary not only is confusing, but breaks the flow of the book when that is the evident purpose for the format of the book. The confusing order in which Starkey retells events and the ineffective and useless information that is put in for building character personalities.
My overall opinion of this book is good I really liked it and recommend it to anyone. It is a good book to read and it keep you interested throughout the whole book.
This is my personal reflection about this book. First and foremost, I would like to say that this book is very thick and long to read. There are about nineteen chapters and 278 pages altogether. As a slow reader, it is a quite hard for me to finish reading it within time. It took me weeks to finish reading it as a whole. Furthermore, it is written in English version. My English is just in average so sometimes I need to refer to dictionary for certain words. Sometimes I use google translate and ask my friends to explain the meaning of certain terms.
Criticisms (Unfavourable): Near the end of the book the dialogue becomes more rhetorical than the rest of the book. This isn’t really a problem, but can become slightly confusing at times. The best option would be to read this part slowly and carefully in order to understand what the message is.
...fter reading the story and watching it, I still have difficulty interrupting it. Yet, by looking at the ambiguities, gaps and strategically placed metaphors I can understand it better. Cunningham does a good job of tying these three stories together into a novel about reading a book. I would highly recommend this book to the advanced reader.
The type of narration, the plot’s rising action, and the overall imprint that is left on the reader, pushes this book above and beyond. Whaley creates a picture for the reader by using third- person omniscient point of view. This method helps the reader better understand the main characters. The rising action development was extremely easy to follow. The descriptions of the characters and the background information helps explained how the story was laid out. Also, the author seemed like he wanted the reader to realize the purpose of the three-way friendship. It represented how a relationship allows everyone to learn from their flaws and unwarranted decisions from other’s reactions. This book is truly unique, from the composure to the character’s
Overall book ten has many links throughout the book and the structure of book ten relies on them to work. Many are theme based that within them are complex and debatable such as the nature of love and whether it is tragic or maddening. How focalisation can change our understanding and representation of a characters situation. How obsession affects the characters and our perception of the text as a whole. As well as the transformation both physically brought on and emotionally in the transformation of the kinds of love. These factors all influence the structure of book ten and how that affects our reading of the book overall. And as a result without them the structure of book ten would suffer.
Terms like ‘beautifully executed’ ‘the clearest’ ‘readable’ and ‘entertaining’ have been used to describe this novel. This means that he has managed to do what most authors never managed to do in that time, and he did it well, and that the way it was written, as he told the story straight, was clear and readable. Both touch upon the fact that he is an icon of the ‘beat’ generation, and that his writing was entertaining.
Nonetheless, despite being a surprisingly acceptable novel I noted that at times novels are occasionally dragged out and can frequently be skipped around. With The High Window concisely supporting this observation, the novel is bluntly understood after reading the first three chapters and the last three chapters of the novel instead of going over all 36 chapters. This in my opinion is irritating as a reader, but is comprehensible since the novel revolves
I found the book to be easy, exciting reading because the story line was very realistic and easily relatable. This book flowed for me to a point when, at times, it was difficult to put down. Several scenes pleasantly caught me off guard and some were extremely hilarious, namely, the visit to Martha Oldcrow. I found myself really fond of the char...
8.Recommendation: I wouldn’t recommend this book for anyone to read because it’s quite boring and very confusing in some parts of the story. Well it’s confusing to me and it’s like the most weirdest book I have ever read. Someone who likes to read novels or read in general would like this book because or if they like this genre they would like this
...nd enjoyable. The one thing that did bug me was that Youngs does not directly tie his thesis directly to the end of the book. It would have been helpful for the reader to be able to confirm Youngs’s intention for writing the book, but since he fails to re-introduce his argument in the end, it left me questioning that intention.
In this book review I represent and analyze the three themes I found the most significant in the novel.
The novel shows funny parts about how Hulot is chasing new woman almost every time as if it is the only thing worth living for. The book is entertaining for days and he shows you the difference between literature and fiction. Balzac 's approach on the book can be a cliffhanger, but he is able to put the reader in the scene and reveal the complexities of social interactions among the characters. Balzac can create scenes that draws the reader in and just gets hooked onto the book that they just have to continue to keep
A powerful, moving, eye opening novel is what should be taught in the grade 12 curriculum. A Thousand Splendid Suns written by Khaled Hosseini is just that. It is an incredible novel which gives students a better understanding of the 4U course. Firstly, the author explores literacy devices which illustrates effectively and is applicable for the 4U student and their journey to post secondary school. Secondly, A Thousand Splendid suns relates to the novel The Kite Runner as they both have main characters with tragic flaws in their lives similar to Amir, Hassan and Baba. It uses a woman protagonist instead of male, giving the reader a different prospective to life in Afghanistan as a female instead of a male. Lastly, the duality of human nature through the difference of characters, tying the novel to an important theme in the course. Therefore, Khaled Hosseini’s A thousand Splendid Suns is an incredibly moving novel which should be taught in the grade twelve curriculum as students would only benefit from reading this novel.