Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Outcast |
| author | Sadie Jones |
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| ISBN-13 | 978-0-099-51342-1 |
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| date | 2019-Dec-15 |
The book begins with the release of young Lewis Aldridge from prison and then goes back to his childhood, describes how he ended up in prison and continues with what happened when he got back.
Lewis' mother died when we was a young boy. He was the only one to witness what happened. Let mostly alone with his grief he turned into himself, didn't get along with others too well. The older he got, the worse it got. It is a very long way for Lewis to realize that he is not the only one in the world who is not perfect.
The story draws a rather psychological picture of not only a boy who has to cope with a bitter loss and feels utterly lost because of it, but also of his environment; his father, his stepmother, some of his friends, some of the important people in the village. It is a dark story, full of unhappiness. Time and again one paragraph ends in one time and the next continues in a different time without being obvious at first. Time and again you wish you could help the people in this story. But mostly they wouldn't even want to accept any help. This definitely is not a bright story where the protagonist(s) are strong and successfully and glamorously fight, besiege and conquer all the evil and bad around them, but much more a statement of how much injustice around us is just silently ignored and concealed out of shame.
