As I was scrolling down the lists of books that I could chose to read this summer, I happened across a book titled Revolver, written by Marcus Sedgwick, and now that book has a home in my e-library on my phone. I know the saying is "Don't judge a book by it's cover", but that strategy didn't really work out all to bad for me this time. What caught my eye was actually just the cover and the title of the book itself, I clicked on it, read the description, and now I'm here. I haven't been disappointed with the book I read this summer, I actually kind of enjoyed it. If after finishing my book, there is a definitive connection between it and myself, I would have to say it's the book's feeling of responsibility that it puts on Sig after his father dies. Not that my dad is dead but being the biggest besides him in the family and also the oldest of my brothers, I feel like I could take that kind of responsibility if I was needed to. Revolver was a good read overall, but that's just my opinion. I would say anyone who likes either old westerns or books with a fair amount of action and also suspense would enjoy this one. But I think it would be boring to those people that always have to have something going on in the book because this one definitely has slow parts to it.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Summer Reading Post #3 Aug/13/14
The excerpt I have chosen from my book, Revolver, I took from the very first page in the first chapter and for good reason. It reads, "Sig looked across the cabin to where his father lay, waiting for him to speak, but his father said nothing, because he was dead. Einar Andersson lay on the table, his arms half raised above his head, his legs slightly bent at the knee, frozen in the position in which they’d found him; out on the lake, lying on the ice, with the dogs waiting patiently in harness." I chose this part of the book to get the reader hooked because when I read it I had to read it multiple times just to see if I was understanding what it said. How many books do you pick up and start reading and the third sentence in the book has the main character sitting across a table from his frozen dad? This particular section defiantly made me want to delve deeper into the book, I had to find out what happened to cause this scenario sprung on me so early on. I think it would do the same for any reader that picked up the book so I would say the author wrote a pretty good hook for the beginning of Revolver.