[bksvol-discuss] Uploaded Terrorist, by John Updike
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:59:10 -0700 (PDT)
I finished validating and uploaded Terrorist, by John
Updike. It was a near-perfect scan by Jill. The main
things that needed fixing were, as Jill suspected, the
foreign words, not all of which scanned correctly; I
could correct the letters on the Arabic but not all
the accents, i.e., a straight line belongs above the
a in some words, and a dot below the h and the s and
the t in some words.
I believe Kelly with a y mentioned a while ago that
she validated one of Jill's scans and found the same
excellence.
The book is rated Adult because of obscenities,
profanity, coarse sex language.
This book has a little bit of everything?a wonderful
minister's sermon; a few pages of American
revolutionary history; a lot of political and social
commentary, all blended into the story of the creation
of a suicidal teenage American-Muslim terrorist.
I don't think I've seen in any book written in this
century as many *very* long sentences as well as
similes and metaphors that seemed to me to be like the
funny ones students write. In a way it distracted from
the story because I was so aware of what I considered
not-so-good writing--but who am I to criticize John
Updike, winner of so many literary awards, including
the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and more.
Cindy
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