info on the novel "the Reader"?
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for reviews go to amazon.com and search for "the reader" in "books." (i tried giving you a link but it was too long)\n\nas for what happens, the best way to learn that would probably be to read the book...sparknotes doesn't have it, i just checked.
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An examination of the main character, Meursault, in "The Stranger" by Albert Camus would be excellent.  The book is a quick read, only about 120 pages or so.   One theme of the book deals with people's perceptions and the idea that just because people think something to be true does not make it true.  \n\nMany people judge the guilt of the main character based on certain observations of his behaviour, but none that should factor into his culpability regarding a certain act he commits.    \n\n(If you choose this topic, buy the Cliff Notes to read after you have read the book.  Quite fascinating.)
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It's by Stephen Crane.  Here's the SparkNote link, too, since you don't have your book: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/redbadge/ Good luck!
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Check here:\n\nhttp://www.novedge.com/Book_Show.asp?ASIN=0071361057
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got this off sparknotes, maybe it will help\n\n\nPerception\nTen of The Chosen’s eighteen chapters conclude with references to eyes, seeing, watching, looking, or listening. Perception and vision is the novel’s dominant motif, bridging the entire text from Reuven’s eye injury at the beginning to the final passage, in which Reuven watches Danny walk away after perceiving an “almost blinding” “light” in Danny’s eyes. Vision in the novel symbolizes the ability to see the world, to see oneself, and to see beneath the surface and into the heart of a matter. As Danny and Reuven mature over the course of the novel, they develop clearer pictures of themselves and of the world around them.\nAfter Reuven’s eye accident, he remarks that “everything looks different.” His experience in the hospital gives him a newfound appreciation of his own health. Later, his friendship with Danny teaches him to look beyond superficial appearances. Their friendship broadens and deepens Reuven’s perception of the world and allows him to relate to and empathize with others’ suffering.\nAs the novel progresses, Potok focuses on other senses besides vision. In Chapter 7, Reb Saunders scolds Danny for hearing but not listening. When Danny reads in the library, he covers his ears to block out sound. As Danny’s friendship with Reuven develops, he learns to be a better listener. As a result of Danny’s experience with silence—which parallels Reuven’s experience with blindness—Danny learns to appreciate words. Furthermore, Reuven’s development is apparent in his descriptive language, which becomes more specific throughout the novel. As he becomes more aware of the world around him, his descriptions become more detailed, displaying Reuven’s improved command of his senses. The novel’s final passage mentions four of the five senses, showing the development both Reuven and Danny have experienced over the course of the novel.
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No, it's a novel.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey_Wrench_Gang
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It's short and to the point. The pain comes through uncomfortably. \n\nIt leaves no doubt about what it's about, yet leaves a lot to the imagination. I'm assuming the author meant to make the reader feel something, especially pain, grief and loss.  If so, they accomplished their goal. \n\nI'm interested in the "weird" book you found it in. What book?
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Yes. I taught the novel for several years in high school English (10th grade). Read it. You will love it!!! It is an amazing story of a young boy coming of age in the South at the turn of the 20th Century in a small town called Cold Sassy. Bigotry, prejudice, love, acceptance, and fulfillment are among its themes. I highly recommend it to you.
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try sparknotes.com-they'd know.
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Try Readers digest\nb
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Hi, \nCheckout http://www.dinakaran.co.in/vasantham/novel/2002/jun/23/default.html , you have an online novel there :):)
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Charlie is the narrator and the main character of the novel, and his miraculous transformation from mental disability to genius sets the stage for Keyes to address a number of broad themes and issues. Charlie’s lack of intelligence has made him a trusting and friendly man, as he assumes that the people in his life—most notably, his coworkers at Donner’s Bakery—are as well intentioned as he is. As his intelligence grows, however, Charlie gains perspective on his past and present. He realizes that people have often taken advantage of him and have been cruel to him for sport, knowing that he would not understand. Likewise, he realizes that when people have been kind to him, it usually has been out of condescension or out of an awareness that he is inferior. These realizations cause Charlie to grow suspicious of nearly everyone around him. Interestingly, the experimental operation elevates Charlie’s intelligence to such an extent that his new genius distances him from people as much as his disability does. Charlie eventually convinces himself that he has lost feeling even for Alice Kinnian, the one person whom he feels has never betrayed him and the only one for whom he has maintained a deep affection throughout his life.\nFeeling isolated from humanity, Charlie pursues a course of self-education and struggles to untangle his emotional life. He comes to feel that his mind contains two people: the new, genius Charlie, who wants to reach emotional maturity, and the older, disabled Charlie, whose actions are largely informed by the fear and shame his mother, Rose, instilled in him. To reach his goal, the new Charlie must come to grips with the traumas the old Charlie experienced.\nAlthough Charlie resents the mistreatment he endured while disabled, he harbors hostility toward his old self and, ironically, feels the same lack of respect for his intellectual inferiors that many others used to feel for him. It is only in the final weeks of Charlie’s heightened intelligence, before he reverts to his previous mental retardation, that he learns to forgive his family and give and receive love. Charlie’s brief moment of emotional grace comes in the form of the fulfilling but fleeting romantic affair he has with Alice. Finally, though Charlie lapses back to his original state at the end of the novel, a newfound sense of self-worth remains within him, despite the fact that he has lost his short-lived intelligence.
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http://www.allreaders.com/Topics/Info_9349.asp
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It is a story about a young boy who is sent to a concentration camp in WWII by the Nazis and how he endures and manages to live through it all. It is a story about the Holocaust. It is brief and is an excellent read. READ it.\n\nGood luck.
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Yes the Wreckers was a wonderful book by Lain Lawrence. The plot of the novel is very intriguing and deceiving at times. The plot\nof the novel is very\neffective because it keeps the reader interested in the novel through many\ndifferent opinions of\nthe cause of the central conflict of the novel.The setting plays a very important\nrole in developing the\nplot. The setting of the book is very effective and helps to explain the events of\nthe novel.It plays an\nimportant role in explaining why the wreckers deliberately wreck ships on their\nshores. The\ncharacters in the novel are used effectively to deceive the reader in many ways.\nSince, the\ncharacters are not completely described at once, the reader may be deceived by\ntheir actions or\nway of life. THE WRECKERS, by Iain Lawrence, is well written and keeps the\nreader wondering the\ntruth about the wreckers until the very end.
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I read it a long time back. I'll tell you what I remember. \nLike all Arthur Hailey books it was very well researched. It was almost difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction. The details of the operations of a hotel that has been shown is wonderful.\nThe novel definitely revolves around the hotel industry but is much more than that.\nIt has many different threads that emanate from the hotel, and it covers several other aspects of human life. \nFor example, the childish character of Marsha Preyscott, which makes her “very sincerely” narrate the story of the happy married life of her governess to Peter McDermott to pursue him to believe that her decision to marry him is all right. This was when her governess was not married at all. And this was not a mental delusion or anything, it was plain simple lie she had told him to be able to pursue him to marry her!!\nThen there was the issue of black-white discrimination which was handled when the author brought up the issue that came up in a Dentists’ convention when the hotel persisted \nAnd why, not surprisingly, he was right. The convention did not pull out certainly, even if details varied a bit!!\nThe hotel is having monetary problems. The rich poor discrimination is also brought up by the author. But, he has his protagonist act out in the correct way. This act of kindness by the hotel's assistant manager finds a new buyer for the hotel. The story ends with the change of hotel ownership changes. The competence of the assistant manager is recognized and he becomes the EVP, essentially responsible for running the operation. In the very beginning he takes the stand that the hotel should be desegregated. This was bold, but he gets on with it and gets it accepted too. Later there is a conversation with a black character of the novel, who has always been skeptical of manager’s intentions when he advocated desegregation…\nAll in all it was a great read.\nI am sorry I am unable to give more details.
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Give us some more info and tell us what kind of books you like.  Fiction, non-fiction, biographies, mystery, romance, sci-fi, literature, poetry?