Personally, I give myself 50 pages. At this point, I've read enough to know whether I WANT to continue to read or it's time to give up and move onto [Personally, I give myself 50 pages. At this point, I've read enough to know whether I WANT to continue to read or it's time to give up and move onto [reading] something else. At page 50 of this book, I really wanted to move on to something else, but this was for my book discussion group so I persevered.
At 717 pages - I read the large print edition - I continue to ask myself why. Why was this book as long as it was - only the last [roughly] 250 pages were good? Why is this story set in Australia? Australia's primary language is AUSTRALIAN English, and I did not read much of this in use throughout the story. Why the moving back and forth between past (which really wasn't much, and difficult to determine, without reading where (timeline) we were in the story without being prompted at the start of each chapter) and present?
On a positive note, I did understand the meaning behind the title - Apples never fall far from the tree, and the ending was really well done, but ...
This should prove for an interesting discussion, but too many characters who have way too much drama in their lives - most of the first 2/3 of this book read like a soap opera. The whole story just boggled my mind, and not in a good way.
I always tell my book group that the purpose of a book discussion group is to read new things and get you out of your comfort zone. Well, I'm out ... way, way out! I gave it two stars because I did finish it, but ugh!...more
Although I wasn't wild about the parts that showed medical analysis of specific points, I did appreciate this biography about the Klebold's life, mostAlthough I wasn't wild about the parts that showed medical analysis of specific points, I did appreciate this biography about the Klebold's life, mostly after the shooting at Columbine, but also about the family's time before the shooting.
I sincerely believe this is the next step in Sue Klebold's recovery -- something cathartic -- to assist her in her goal of trying to understand (I don't know that anyone will ever fully understand) what caused her son (and Eric Harris) to not only commit suicide, but also commit mass murder in the process.
When someone commits a crime of this magnitude, especially when the guilty are so young, our first inclination is to blame the parents, but as with anything else out there, we cannot just look at the parents / family, we also have to look at their friendships, their environment, their hobbies, etc.
Interesting. I appreciated Sue Klebold's thoughts and opinions, the most. The medical analysis I could have done without. You can't always lump someone into a group or a statistic. Just like a fingerprint, everyone is different....more
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