Post by Hippiejo on Mar 15, 2021 12:14:37 GMT
Oh my gosh, I just could not get on with this book and I'm gutted about it.
Honestly, I had such high hopes for it. The synopsis is so good; In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine year old Oskar discovers a key...
And so begins a journey for Oskar to find the lock that will be opened by the key. I think one of the issues I had with this is trying to understand a writing style that is a little unusual and through the eyes of a clearly autistic child.
Other than that it's difficult to pinpoint why I struggled, but I just didn't get it.
There were some beautiful moments in it.
Oskar shows a video to his class of an interview that takes place with a lady called Tomoyasu whose daughter died in her arms.
TOMOSAYU. "When I heard that your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying "I don't want to die". That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.
One of the main things that I didn't like and found quite disturbing was that at the end of the book, there are a number of pages that are a flick through of the man that jumped from a window of the twin towers but the flick through makes it look as if the man is going back upwards to the window. Oskar at one point in the book goes through a process of 'if this hadn't happened then that wouldn't have happened and then that wouldn't have happened, etc. and I think the backward flick through is supposed to represent that. Personally, it just didn't sit well with me.
I will be watching the movie of this story soon and I feel that I may enjoy this more. If I enjoy the movie, I'll read the book again to see if it makes more sense to me.
I'll keep ya posted!!
Honestly, I had such high hopes for it. The synopsis is so good; In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine year old Oskar discovers a key...
And so begins a journey for Oskar to find the lock that will be opened by the key. I think one of the issues I had with this is trying to understand a writing style that is a little unusual and through the eyes of a clearly autistic child.
Other than that it's difficult to pinpoint why I struggled, but I just didn't get it.
There were some beautiful moments in it.
Oskar shows a video to his class of an interview that takes place with a lady called Tomoyasu whose daughter died in her arms.
TOMOSAYU. "When I heard that your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying "I don't want to die". That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.
One of the main things that I didn't like and found quite disturbing was that at the end of the book, there are a number of pages that are a flick through of the man that jumped from a window of the twin towers but the flick through makes it look as if the man is going back upwards to the window. Oskar at one point in the book goes through a process of 'if this hadn't happened then that wouldn't have happened and then that wouldn't have happened, etc. and I think the backward flick through is supposed to represent that. Personally, it just didn't sit well with me.
I will be watching the movie of this story soon and I feel that I may enjoy this more. If I enjoy the movie, I'll read the book again to see if it makes more sense to me.
I'll keep ya posted!!