Probably my last post

This is probably my last post. Our school assigment is almost finished and we are going to write our book report/analysis this week. For this reason am I now going to write about how it has been to blog. Honestly it has been much more fun than I thouth it would be!  I had the most negative attitude you can have but now I don’t hate it so much! I think it’s a fun way to work with a book. I also think it’s a great way of working with the the language, plus, it’s modern.  Overall, blogging isn’t that bad:P

 

Ira Levin

Ok, so now I have to write about what I know about the auther….

The only thing I knew about him was that his name is Ira Levin (after reading on the cover of the novelle). Actually I thought he was a woman at first…  But now I have checked him on google and it turns out that he won the Edgar Award (God knows what that is) for Best First Novel in 1954.  The book must have been a success since it were made into two films afterwards…

Personally I can’t really recommend the novelle. The main reason is that it’s based on the murderers perspective. You only get Bud and Leos daughters thoughts, thats all. The investigation or how the police is working isn’t mentioned. Plus I think the book is boring and Bud sounds like a sociopath! I will definitely not read other books from Levin…

Remember, thats only my opinion! If you think it sounds marvelous, go rent it at your nearest library.

Extremely many wishes Sunniva

Ps: I can’t figure out how to insert two photos in the same post so for now it will be only one photo…

Another new post

Today is a new day and it’s time for a new post.

I have found The mans name!! His called Bud, I found it after some snooping on the internet.

What I’m going to write about in this post is the setting and the social environment of the novel.

Since the book is divided into three parts (all named after Leo Kingship’s daughters. Leo Kingship is Dorothy’s father) the setting changes while you’re reading. In the first part the story takes place on Stoddard College, where Bud and Dorothy are both students. In the second part Bud transfers to Caldwell College and the story continues there. When the book ends Bud is back home.

You can’t say that the book is like another world but is definitely from another time periode.

Some exaples;

-Bud served in world war II.

– Dorothy and Bud where forced to get married after Dorothy got pregnant. As getting an illegitimate child where socially unacceptable, especially for Dorothy who came from a rich and well known familly

– How Ira Levin is writing( Leo Kingship is writing to his daughter, Ellen; I recevied your last letter and am sorry not to have replied sooner,but the demands of business have been especially pressing of late)

In my opinion the authers language is pretty old-fashioned. It has probably something to do with the fact that the book was published in 1954 and the story is suposed to take place in 1950-1952.

PS: Sorry for wirting an extremely boring post but this is after all my school blog……

Book report or book analysis?

This week I have to decide whether I’ll write a book report or a book analysis. I don’t think I’ll get time to write an analysis (since I read really slowly) so I’ll go for the book report.  Book report is simply easier.

Yesterday I found out that it has been made two films of the book, the first  in 1956 and the second in 1991. I have only seen the trailer to the one made in 1991.  Here you got the links to the trailers on youtube:

By the way, the 1991 version screams TACKY….

The beginning

Now I have began reading acutally! Not as much as I should have, but it’s a start!

Since I haven’t told you anyting about the book,  i thouth a could begin with the ”thing” behind the book (I don’t know what’s it called); ” The book tells the shocking tale of a young man who will literally stop at nothing to get where he wants to go. For he has dreams; plans. He also has charm, good looks, sex appeal, intellegence. And he has a problem. Her name is Dorothy; she loves him, and she’s pregnant. The solution, he realizes, may demand desperate measures. But, then, he looks like the kind of guy who could get away with murder”.  

As you can see, it’s a crime novel. The main character is the man described as ” good looking and intellegent”. After reading two chapters I haven’t got his name but I can imagine something like Jacke or Michael. We can call him ” The man” untill I figured it out. The man was born in Menasset, Massachusetts but is ”now” living in New York (shocker) with his girlfriend, Dorothy.  He has no degree, just two years’ collage. Dorothy is an eighteen year old rich man’s daughter and the story beginnes in their apartment. The man has just recieved horrible news; Dorothy is pregnant. Consider the opening line, he’s not to happy about it; ”His plans had been running so beatifully, so goddamned beatifully, and now she was going to smash them all”.

So their you go, something about the book.

I’m going to read much more this week so before you know it, I might have posted something new (and hopefully better).

Stay tuned

The first things first

To get one thing straight, I have spelled ”The book blog” wrong, I wote ”The book blogg” instead. As you can see my English is perfect… If I could, i would changed it, but now I have created this blog and i’m not going to create a new one.  Ok, so now we have got that out of the way, thank god. I suppose you have figured out that this is my book blog.The reason why I made this wonderful blog was because of a school project. We have to blog about a book we have chosen, while reading it.  The book I’m going to read is called ”A kiss before dying.You’ll get more information and details about the book when I start reading it. Until then, be patient!