(M86'12) Duck Boy, Bill Bunn
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1mirrani
This was a reviewer book, so I am trying to clear it out of my list of books to read as quickly as I can. For a long while I wasn't able to do anything like reading and note taking, but now I'm working furiously to get the job done.
More to come as I read along.
More to come as I read along.
2mirrani
"Books, the original iPods," he said aloud.
Great one-line there.
Like a Christmas-light bulb, the joy that had just been there disappeared, replaced by darkness.
Very visual and it really hits the emotion home, I think.
About 42% of the way through the book, there's a huge traumatic event and the boy in the story has no one to turn to but a neighbor who's about his age. Instead of telling her what is going on and asking for help he spends what seems like pages dithering and blabbering on about nothing in particular. That was frustrating to me. I didn't see what use that had in the telling of the story. Especially since he keeps telling her he wants to talk to her about it, but doesn't use an opportunity to do so.
Later on, the boy is running from the girl's father, trying to get out of the house unnoticed. We get this great one-line...
Thankfully, the house seemed uninterested in his exit.
Nearing the 60% mark things start to go from interesting fantasy to Alice in Wonderland... which I wasn't very fond of. I have to say, from that point on, whenever we visited that part of the plot, I wasn't really impressed, especially as it dealt with breaking people into parts. The last note I made dealt with watching someone's head puff into atoms. The rest of the body is still there after that? Just standing? I don't do well with things that don't follow logical sense.
Great one-line there.
Like a Christmas-light bulb, the joy that had just been there disappeared, replaced by darkness.
Very visual and it really hits the emotion home, I think.
About 42% of the way through the book, there's a huge traumatic event and the boy in the story has no one to turn to but a neighbor who's about his age. Instead of telling her what is going on and asking for help he spends what seems like pages dithering and blabbering on about nothing in particular. That was frustrating to me. I didn't see what use that had in the telling of the story. Especially since he keeps telling her he wants to talk to her about it, but doesn't use an opportunity to do so.
Later on, the boy is running from the girl's father, trying to get out of the house unnoticed. We get this great one-line...
Thankfully, the house seemed uninterested in his exit.
Nearing the 60% mark things start to go from interesting fantasy to Alice in Wonderland... which I wasn't very fond of. I have to say, from that point on, whenever we visited that part of the plot, I wasn't really impressed, especially as it dealt with breaking people into parts. The last note I made dealt with watching someone's head puff into atoms. The rest of the body is still there after that? Just standing? I don't do well with things that don't follow logical sense.
