Sumer Reading Blog

1. I reccomend this book for these two reasons:

My first reason for reccomending this book to my peers is that I really enjoyed reading in a style that I have never seen written before. There were four main characters in my book and the book takes turns telling the story from each point of view. For example the book starts off with one of the main characters, Martin, narrorating and you can read his stream of conciousness then from there it moves to another character,Maureen, narrorating her story and we can read her stream of conciousness. Also I reccomend this book because it has a series of events throughout a crazy evening, and the reason that this random group of people are together is that they all want to commit suicide, but incidentally it causes good realization and benificial occurances. So you begin reading thinking that this novel is going to be a bummer , and it ends up as sort of a comedy peice. This novel is also one I couldn't put down , and that doesn't happen too often with books for me.







3. If I were to cast one or two major characters from my book in a movie, I would choose the following actors for these reasons:

In my book A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby There are four main characters, Maureen, JJ , Jess , and Martin. All of their personalities are completely different but they all have one common desire, to commit suicide. The two most influential characters in my opinion are Martin and Jess. Martin is a middleaged man that had a perfect life , with a job on a breakfast television show and a beautiful wife and kids. He lived luxuriously and had everything. To end this life he made the mistake of sleeping with a 15 year-old girl and he lost everything. Because this chracter reminds me so much of the character Jack Donaghy off of 30 rock I cast martin's character as Alec Baldwin. The way Hornby describes Martin physically seems parrallel to the way Baldwin looks. Also many similar personality traits and bad habits with women relations come through to the reader. Jess is a troubled 18 years-old girl whom is obsessed with an exboyfriend. I could see Lindsay Lohan pulling off this role because of her life seems to be a complete mess and she emulates what the character Jess is built up to be. Jess's character is a vulgar teenager and Lohan has prtrayed this in many other roles already.


Katrina Kelly Grade Ten