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3.52 AVERAGE
3.52 AVERAGE
This was a good book, the way the author switched from being in the present in the bunker and life before the nuclear attack was interesting and put a good perspective on the lives of those in the bunker. I wanted to keep reading at the end of the book. I wanted to know what happened to the characters, that's always a good sign!
Ich war wirklich positiv überrascht und fand das Buch so viel besser als ich erwartet hatte. Es ist sehr interessant, abwechslungsreich und emotional. Es werden durchaus viele Themen behandelt und tolle Gedankengänge des Erzählers beleuchtet. Diese "was wäre wenn" Gedanken, die man beim Lesen automatisch im Kopf hat, verbreiten ein mulmiges Gefühl. Die offenen Fragen des Autors am Ende des Buches fand ich großartig, um auf das Gelesene zurückzublicken. Der Abschnitt lässt mich hinterfragen und hat mich wirklich beschäftigt. So etwas sollte es definitiv öfter geben!
Eine Fortsetzung der erzählten Geschichte würde mich ebenfalls interessieren.
Eine Fortsetzung der erzählten Geschichte würde mich ebenfalls interessieren.
I read this book after my 12 yr old recommended it. I found it to be interesting and very well written. I'm looking forward to more by this author and more recommendations from my young reader.
Icky. The writing was uninspiring and the characters and plot were icky. I was uncomfortable half the time and bored the other half. The attempt at including racism was pretty poorly executed. I will recommend to 7th & 8th grade boys who may appreciate the straightforward writing style and short chapters and hope that this book somehow appeals to them. There's not much I liked about it, though, except the author's note at the end.
A fascinating premise. I was worried it would be difficult to follow since the chapters switch off between time periods, but it flowed perfectly. I'm not sure how appropriate a few of the parts would be for very young children but overall it is a very good read.
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Everyone in the neighborhood made fun of Scott's dad when he started building the bomb shelter. Sure, everyone knows the threat of the Russians, but it would be mutually assured destruction--so while the Russians COULD destroy the US, they definitely WOULDN'T.
Until the night they do. The October night when Scott's dad wakes him up and ushers the whole family into the bomb shelter--and then tries in vain to hold the door shut against the neighbors who are also trying to get in. The shelter was only stocked with enough food and supplies for two weeks for four people, but it suddenly needs to stretch to ten. With no clocks or watches, there's no sense of how long they've been down there, or how much longer they'll need to stay. Four kids and six adults, one of whom is nearly comatose from a head injury falling down the ladder into the shelter. In such close quarters, with little food and no privacy, tempers flare: fear, racism, despair, anger.
I kept waiting for this to resolve in some kind of misunderstanding of the circumstances, some sort of Donnie Darko plane-crashed-into-the-house thing, but ... no. This is the real deal. This is claustrophobic and stuffy in a visceral way. Bad things have actually, legitimately happened. I'd love to see what happens next, what the aftermath is like for Scott and the others. But that's a different story, one we don't get here and can only imagine at.
Will be passing this along to my middle-schoolers, possibly paired with SA Bodeen's The Compound.
Until the night they do. The October night when Scott's dad wakes him up and ushers the whole family into the bomb shelter--and then tries in vain to hold the door shut against the neighbors who are also trying to get in. The shelter was only stocked with enough food and supplies for two weeks for four people, but it suddenly needs to stretch to ten. With no clocks or watches, there's no sense of how long they've been down there, or how much longer they'll need to stay. Four kids and six adults, one of whom is nearly comatose from a head injury falling down the ladder into the shelter. In such close quarters, with little food and no privacy, tempers flare: fear, racism, despair, anger.
I kept waiting for this to resolve in some kind of misunderstanding of the circumstances, some sort of Donnie Darko plane-crashed-into-the-house thing, but ... no. This is the real deal. This is claustrophobic and stuffy in a visceral way. Bad things have actually, legitimately happened. I'd love to see what happens next, what the aftermath is like for Scott and the others. But that's a different story, one we don't get here and can only imagine at.
Will be passing this along to my middle-schoolers, possibly paired with SA Bodeen's The Compound.
dark
funny
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
This was a pretty good book, it just wasn't my style or my favorite.
Another great book! It's set in 1962 during the Cold war. Everyone is afraid of that a nuclear bomb is going to fall and kill them. That, of course, didn't happen, but this book shows what the life of a normal family would have been. I think most people don't realise how hard life must have been back then. Imagine waking up every morning, knowing that this might be your last day to live. Horrible, isn't it? And what if the bomb had really really fallen? How many people would have died?
This book was like a history lesson. And a very useful one. But I wish it was longer. Really, it ends with the people getting out of the bomb shelter and we don't really know what happens to them. Did they survive?
This book was like a history lesson. And a very useful one. But I wish it was longer. Really, it ends with the people getting out of the bomb shelter and we don't really know what happens to them. Did they survive?