Jo itibaren Vermontville, NY 12989, Birleşik Devletler
don't you hate every time when you are telling a truth, and no one is beleiving you, well that is basically what happens to andy the charecter of this book. "Wolf Rider" by Avi is great fiction book about this young boy who suffers throw life in every possible way, but like any others books there is happy ending. This 13 year old kid goes from losing his mother to being untrusted boy. the climax of the book is when andy receives this unsual phone call from this man who calls him self Sack. sack says he killed a girl who goes to college around andy's neiborhood. andy knows neither the girl nor the sack, but he believes sack is not lying. " poeple campare me to the boy who carreid wolf when i tell them the story, but i never lied to them and nor am i lying know either. no one believes andy's story so he thinks he is obligated to find who Sack is and who the girl is and he wants to prove he was right, but the result he finds at the end is a mstary which remians in the book.
I thought the book was hilarious, and was so good I could not put it down. This is a great short-read
* A 300-page diatribe against Calcutta, which city evidently offended Simmons at some point. * His hero, Bobby Luczak, is a coward who behaves stupidly and illogically; he's an effete literary type who one would think would treat his mathematician wife with some respect, but who repeatedly hides things from her and deserts her without reason. He claims to have a terrible temper, yet he's impotent in a crisis. * He has a child, a 7-month-old daughter, whose very existence serves only one unpleasant purpose. His wife's only purpose seems to be to show how stupid he is by contrast. * One character, the college kid who gets the plot rolling, tells Bobby a story about the worshippers of the evil goddess Kali. The story starts on Page 62 and ends on Page 111. Bobby doesn't applaud at the end of it, despite the fact that it's a bravura performance, complete with backstory, chapters, and narrative arc. Perhaps he withholds his approbation because he knows the story could have been drastically shortened, and even demonstrates this when he later condenses the boy's 3-hour monologue to 10 minutes in relating it to his wife. * Very little actually happens in this story, though it is filled from end to end with repeated descriptions of the rampant squalor of Calcutta. Bobby decides this is because the people are evil. Makes it easier, I suppose, for him to feel nothing for them. He dreams of it disappearing in nuclear fire. For him, it's a pleasant dream. * Simmons seems less interested here in plot than Lovecraftian dread. Lovecraft, however, didn't write 300-page novels. I think there's a reason for that.
fun story about how nothing every goes right, and the world is a fucked up place that continually dashes your hopes.
A good story that made me more aware of the realities and characteristics of Alzheimer's disease. It was interesting reading the story from the perspective of the woman who had early-onset Alzheimer's. Not the most amazing, well-written book I've ever read, but I learned a lot and enjoyed reading it. I'd recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about the disease in a fictional format.