The blog for SUNY Binghamton's Spring'09 COLI 214B 02 Literature and Society Class. Chapter summaries, analyses and discussion of prescribed texts written by students.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

HOL SUM UP Tung

After finishing the book my impression on the ending was a little disappointing. The naval and how it was written compressed all the mystery and suspense so well that I thought that the end it was just kind of just played out like it was nothing. Maybe that what he wanted along in the beginning, since he kind of started the book with “this isn’t for you”. Maybe like the Beatles song that the book was so sort of sick inside joke that he and a handful of people know leaving the rest of us high and dry. So many questions left unanswered. Part of me hates these kinds of books/movies that leave us with more questions in the end; so much so that if I know that it would end like this that I wouldn’t have read it in the first places kind of. But the book was very well written in that it made me feel involved in the story line. So in the end I’m guessing that his mother had to do something with the development of the book? I don’t know too deep for me to go farther in too after eating lunch. But the book is a definite good read but really hard I think to analyze because it could good so many ways.

1 comment:

Nian said...

yeah i agree that this book isn't really for me either. there was too many twists and turns and too many questions like you said that's unclear.

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