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The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

 The book itself, is divided in 36 chapters. The story is explained by Dom, the main character, in first person, and the plot deals with human relationships.

It is a gripping comedy, full of utterly funny moments and as well odd situations.

All in all, The Rosie Project is not a bestseller, but it is an easy going book and its vocabulary is also easy to understand.

Although it has over 300 pages, I recommend to all those people who like this type of books to spend a fancy afternoon far from difficult plots.

Here I leave some lines about the book:

“Gene and Claudia tried for a while to assist me with The Wife Problem. Unfortunately, their approach was based on the traditional dating paradigm, which I was previously abandoned on the basis that the probability of success did not justify the effort and negative experiences. I am thirty-nine years old, tall, fit, and intelligent, with a relatively high status and above-average income as an associate professor. Logically, I should be attractive to a wide range of women. In the animal kingdom, I would succeed in reproducing…”

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Ester Rocaginé Comelles

English 5th Level

 

INTO THE WATER

INTO THE WATER written by PAULA HAWKINS

I really enjoyed reading “The girl on the train” and now I am so glad to have discovered “Into the water”. It is a longer thriller than the first, with more characters, and very well decorated with fragments of a manuscript, and a legendary story, which encourages to travel and go deep down into the English countryside. The deep England. In other words, a book thought so that You can’t stop reading.

This second thriller from the writer, who was born in Africa, is recommended for advanced level pupils who will be able to enjoy detecting the most literary grammatical structures and the vocabulary learnt during all their years of study. However, intermediate level students can also enjoy a cultivated writing, but at the same time close and understandable, which characterizes P. Hawkins due to her Philosophy, Politics and Economics studies at Oxford University and her former job as an economics journalist at The Times. As far as I know, an interesting personality who is bound to be thinking about her third thriller.

To sum up, not only can One enjoy reading but You will also learn with a daring story about human weaknesses. Let’s dive into the water, It is time You started, You definitely will not regret. Otherwise You will have lost three hundred fifty-five pages which I am sure they will be a new success.

 

Here You have some words:

When I was seventeen, I saved my sister from drowning.

But that, believe it or not, is not where all this started.

There are people who are drawn to water, who retain some vestigial, primal sense of where it flows. I believe that I am one of them. I am most alive when I am near the water, when I am near this water. This is the place where I learned to swim, the place where I learned to inhabit nature and my body in the most joyous and pleasurable way.

 

Albert Pardo Ramírez

English

5th J

 

INTO THE WATER escrit per PAULA HAWKINS

Realment vaig gaudir la lectura de “The girl on the train” i ara estic tan content d’haver descobert “Into the water”. És un thriller més llarg que el primer, amb més personatges, i molt ben adornat amb fragments d’un manuscrit, i una historia llegendària, que incita a viatjar i endinsar-se al camp anglès. La Anglaterra profunda. En altres paraules, un llibre per a que no puguis parar de llegir.

Aquest segon thriller de la escriptora nascuda a Àfrica, es recomanable per a alumnes de nivell avançat que podran gaudir identificant les estructures gramaticals més literàries i el vocabulari aprés durant tots els seus anys d’estudi. No obstant, els estudiants de nivell intermedi també poden gaudir d’una escriptura culte, però alhora propera i entenedora, que caracteritza P. Hawkins fruit dels seus estudis de filosofia, política i economia a la Universitat d’Oxford i el seu antic treball com a periodista econòmica a The Times. Fins a on conec, una personalitat interessant que segur estar pensant en el seu tercer thriller.

Resumint, no només un pot gaudir amb la lectura, sinó també aprendràs amb una historia atrevida al voltant de les debilitats humanes. Anem a submergir-nos en l’aigua, és hora de que comencis, no et penediràs. D’altre manera t’hauràs perdut tres-centes cinquanta-cinc pàgines que estic segur que seran un nou èxit.

 

Albert Pardo Ramírez

Anglès

5è J