Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Book Review 2: A quiver full of arrows

Author: Jeffrey Archer

Summary of book: This book contains many short stories that has interesting twist in the ending. Every story is different and always have a very unexpected ending. The words in the book are also quite 'chiem' and you could learn more words from this book.

Comment: Everytime i read the stories in this book, i had already have the expected ending in my mind from the front part of the story. But the ending always turned out to be otherwise and always interesting. For example, in one of the stories in the book, Broken Routine, the main character Septimus, always had the same routine everyday and even his actions were also the same. In one of the days, his deputy manager had called him for consultant and caused his routine to be broken. When he took the train home, he had actually smoked others cigar and keep thinking that it's his and fought the newspaper with the person sitting beside him. When i was reading this story, i had actually thought that the cigars and the newspaper belonged to Septimus but it turned out that all of that belongs to the person who sat beside him. It was a great twist as it had actually gave others a good view of the ending but in the end it was different. From this book, i could actually understand how to create a good twist in the stories that i write.

Jasmine

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