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Excellent and fascinating story-line, but poor writing.
I found myself eager to read the book to find out what would happen to this poor boy, but struggled over the writing.
The story is told from 11-year-old Jim (who's 14 in the second half of the book), and the point of view changes, where information is given to the reader by the author, not by Jim's eyes. I started taking note of this after it happened quite a bit. On page 308, Jim watches Britain prisoners getting out of a car and entering th ...more
I found myself eager to read the book to find out what would happen to this poor boy, but struggled over the writing.
The story is told from 11-year-old Jim (who's 14 in the second half of the book), and the point of view changes, where information is given to the reader by the author, not by Jim's eyes. I started taking note of this after it happened quite a bit. On page 308, Jim watches Britain prisoners getting out of a car and entering th ...more
Aug 06, 2009
Jen
marked it as to-read
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marked it as 1001-list
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