Never Let Me Go - A book review
March 11, 2008Posted by mmarvs in : Books
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Review by Margarita Nogueiro
Do you like science-fiction books? Are you interested in stories of love and friendship? This is your book! Never let me go is a novel written by Kazuo Ishiguro and set in England. The main characters are Kathy, who tells the story recalling her childhood and adolescence, and her best friends, Ruth and Tommy.
Kathy looks back at her schooldays in Hailsham. There, she starts her friendship with Tommy and Ruth. Despite the fact that they seem to have a happy childhood, Kathy and her friends are not like all children, so their teachers educate them for their inevitable destinity. And here my summary must stop because I would not like to reveal the main secret of the book.
What I liked least of it was that all the story is centred on Hailsham and it is a bit repetitive. Moreover, it is filled with hints that you only understand at the end. Anyway, along the book I found that the story was different from what I expected and it was enough to keep reading. The power of this novel is the combination of feelings and intrigue.
A sad story that I would recommend to everyone who wants to enjoy a book that will not make you indifferent.
Thirty-nine Steps - A book Review
March 11, 2008Posted by mmarvs in : Books
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Title: Thirty-nine steps
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Adapted Version: Level Advanced
Review by Daniel Antuña jiménez
This is one of the best known spy stories based on the First World War and one of the most fascinating books I’ve ever read. John Buchan translates us to the first years of the past century, the turbulent days before the First World War, when you could find spies everywhere, sharing important documents for the government of an enemy army and making plans of conquest. There’s no man safe, even in their own apartments. The novel is fictional, but Buchan is so worried about the description of the countryside and the feelings of the main character, Richard Hannay, that you are feeling the entire book the action has really happened in the stormy days of 1915. In fact, due to its constant action and its suspense, Alfred Hitchcock immortalized the book in the film of 1935 with the same title, which is considered his first masterpiece.
Nineteen eighty-four - A book review
March 10, 2008Posted by mmarvs in : Books
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Review by Miguel de Zárraga
Nineteen eighty-four is appart from Animal farm the most famous novel by the British journalist and novelist Eric Arthur Blair, known as George Orwell who was born in Motihari (Bengal) in 1903 and died in London in 1950, Orwell was appalled by Hitler’s rise to power in Germany and the Spanish Civil War, so he wrote Nineteen eighty-four as his vision of the totalitarianism.
Set in the future, Nineteen eighty-four tells us about the fight of the leading protagonist Winston Smith, who only wants be free, and the Party, a dark government who had taken control over all aspects of daily life and pretended to eradicate individualism by systematically modifying history and severely punishing anyone who disagreed. In the end Winston is completely defeated and under torture betrays all his ideals and feelings by becoming a devoted Party supporter.