Book Reviews These activities consist of

1. 
   Ordering a book review
   
2. 
   Analysing text organisation
   
3. 
   Asking questions
   
4. 
   Reading comprehension
   
5. 
   Vocabulary work
   
6. 
   Extensive reading
   
7. 
   Writing a book review
   

You can find more activities on this topic in the print material for Anglès II on pages 15-35.

denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of

redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.
B In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam," two men who grew up with

Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era

in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their

own lives.

book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a

place they have never been able to completely leave.
D Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before

the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of

the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had

flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest

fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years

from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is

haunted by the Vietnam War.
E Hearts in Atlantis: Review
F In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield

discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also

discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror.
G In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover

the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness,

where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast.


A Answers: E, D, F, G, B, A ,C.

E, D, G, F, B, A ,C is also possible.

B Now look at the text and decide which paragraph(s) give:

1. 
   Introduction/Background - objective
   
2. 
   Recommendation/Reviewer's opinion - subjective
   
3. 
   Title
   
4. 
   A description of the contents.
   

2. Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before

the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of

the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had

flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest

fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years

from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is

haunted by the Vietnam War.

discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also

discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror.
4. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover

the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness,

where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast.
5. In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam," two men who grew up with

Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era

in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their

own lives.

denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of

redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.
7. Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new

book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a

place they have never been able to completely leave.
B Answers

5. 
   Introduction/Background - objective Para. 2
   
6. 
   Recommendation/Reviewer's opinion - subjective Para. 7
   
7. 
   Title Para 1
   
8. 
   A description of the contents. Paras. 3,4,5,6
   

1. 
   What's it called?
   
2. 
   Who's it by?
   
3. 
   When's it set?
   
4. 
   Where's it set?
   
5. 
   What's it about?
   
6. 
   What's it like?
   
7. 
   Would you recommend it?
   

You can use these questions as a plan to write your review.

1. 
   Heart In Atlantis.
   
2. 
   Stephen King.
   
3. 
   From 1960 to 1999.
   
4. 
   In the USA.
   
5. 
   It's about people's experiences of the last three decades and the Vietnam War.
   
6. 
   An adjective is normal here. For example, good, bad, boring, brilliant, exciting, interesting etc. In the text it says "It's full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart".
   
7. 
   Yes, the reviewer recommends the book.
   

1. 
   enormously para. 2
   
2. 
   based, set para. 2
   
3. 
   finds out paras. 3 + 4
   
4. 
   addicted to para. 4
   
5. 
   areas around towns/cities para 5
   
6. 
   ending, outcome, solution para. 6
   

This type of exercise is included in tests and exams.

1. 
   enormously hugely
   
2. 
   based, set rooted
   
3. 
   finds out discovers
   
4. 
   addicted to hooked
   
5. 
   from areas around towns/cities suburban
   
6. 
   outcome, solution, ending denouement
   

• 
  the review is positive or negative.
  
• 
  you would like to read the book.
  
• 
  the review is well written.