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Slangenkuil (2000)

by David Almond(Favorite Author)

3.3 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

9045110784 (ISBN13: 9789045110783)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

review 1: Dit boek heb ik gekregen als presentexemplaar van de vertaler, Annelies Jorna, tijdens een workshop over het vertalen van Young Adult-literatuur. Daarom heb ik hem in het Nederlands gelezen in plaats van het Engelse origineel, wat ik bij dit soort boeken normaliter doe. Hoewel het boek niet echt bedoeld is voor mensen van mijn leeftijd, vond ik het een mooi boek om te lezen. Een aantal passages, zoals de verschillende kunstgerelateerde zaken die langskomen en de monoloog van Oliver, hebben me wel aan het denken gezet.Ik kan niet echt veel over de vertaling zeggen omdat ik dan weer niet het Engelstalige origineel heb gelezen, maar het boek leest lekker weg en dit is in ieder geval gedeeltelijk toe te schrijven aan de vertaler.
review 2: While reading the novel R... moreaven Summer by David Almond I was very intrigued by the writing and how the story was more toward an adventure. The story is about how two young boys are following a raven bird and the bird leads them to a baby. This unfolded the plot for the rest of the story by giving the two boys, Liam and Max a bit a trouble and how they were going to help make the best life for the baby as possible. I really enjoyed the book and the high energy the author gave to the characters as they were moving throughout the story.As I said the two boys, very good friends, Liam and Max were minding their own business one day as they spotted a raven, yet they had an eerie feeling about the bird and decided to follow it. Once the boys found the baby they took it to the police to see if they knew who the rightful owners were, but none were found. After a few days the boys became attached to the baby and really wanted to be sure that everything turned out alright for it, so when the baby was placed in a foster home the kids would often go check up on it to be sure that it was receiving the care that the baby needed. The author say, “Live an adventure. Live like you’re in a story” (Almond 58). This quote has significant meaning because the reason that the author puts it in the story is to show that the boys have been given this adventure with the baby and it is their choice whether they finish it or not and they choose to do so. I felt connected to the book as I read because the boys emotions and ideas that they felt the author was able to display them nicely in such way that I could be as invested in the story they are creating as they are.As the book went on it the baby grows up into a young girl named Allison. Liam’s family decides to adopt the young girl and take her into the family as one of their own. Yet, in the foster home Liam meets a boy named Oliver. He is kind and very reserved to himself. As the two boys get to know each other a little bit better the realization that Oliver and the others in the foster home may be in danger. Since Allison is out of the foster home her life is safe and this is the reason that Liam and Max were unaware of the situation. With the kids in the foster homes unable to find families that would adopt them, the homes are not looking to hold the children there forever. So, those without families would be sent back to their home country, Liberia. Oliver and the other children are worried because they were lucky to not be raised in a country with such danger, so they do not want to go back. The author writes, “Words are too easy,” he says. He opens his book. “What looks like truth and sounds like truth might be nothing but a dream, nothing but a story I wish had happened” (Almond 136). Oliver is talking in the quote about how hopeless everything seems to him because he knows he's going to have to go back to the dangerous country of Liberia.I found this book to be very interesting especially with how the culture was portrayed. I felt as though the author wanted the reader to be able the struggle of the danger in Liberia and for that reason there was so much violence in the book. I enjoyed how the emotions were clear especially when the tone of the novel would shift from time to time and the author did a nice job of incorporating imagery in all aspects of the writing. I would recommend this book if someone was looking for and adventure/action book because I truly did enjoy it and I was an easy read because I was so interested. less

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