reading (Winterdance)
Apr. 28th, 2008 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorI read Gary Paulsen's "Winterdance" over the weekend. At 250 pages it's not a very long book and fairly large print makes it go fast. The other thing that makes it go fast is that it's funny. Not slight smile funny, but roaring funny. The kind of funny that you end up spoiling it for anyone else because you have to tell them so much of it. For a long time I was wondering why his wife would ever put up with him. Then I figured out that when she couldn't sleep at night she probably recalled one of his antics and peed herself laughing.
While reading the story I had to wonder how Mr. Paulsen managed to survive to even age twenty, let alone the forty-three he hits in the book. His lack of common sense is only matched by his incredible good fortune. The reader gets to witness his Wiley E. Coyote antics time and again. Somehow, like the coyote, he picks himself up and lives.
This book doesn't try to force you into appreciating the lives of the wild animals or the wilderness, a fault of many books set in the wilderness. This book takes you along for the ride. What you get out of the scenery is your own concern.
23. Gary Paulsen "Winterdance"
While reading the story I had to wonder how Mr. Paulsen managed to survive to even age twenty, let alone the forty-three he hits in the book. His lack of common sense is only matched by his incredible good fortune. The reader gets to witness his Wiley E. Coyote antics time and again. Somehow, like the coyote, he picks himself up and lives.
This book doesn't try to force you into appreciating the lives of the wild animals or the wilderness, a fault of many books set in the wilderness. This book takes you along for the ride. What you get out of the scenery is your own concern.
23. Gary Paulsen "Winterdance"
