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An Expensive Education (2009)

by Nick McDonell(Favorite Author)

3.03 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0802118933 (ISBN13: 9780802118936)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Atlantic Monthly Press

review 1: Romanian review:Niciodata nu mi-au placut cartile cu actiunea foarte detaliata si aceasta carte m-a plictisit pana in cel mai mic detaliu.Recunosc ca detaliile sunt importante pentru a putea scrie o carte, insa aici au fost exagerat de multe imbinate intr-un mod dubios cu amintirile din trecut.Au fost patru personaje importante in aceasta carte: un student african cu rude în satul aruncat în aer pe nume David Aya, iubita acestuia Jane Baker care vrea să fie jurnalistă, o profesoară de la Harvard care a câștigat premiul Pulitzer pentru că a scris o carte despre salvatorul/mântuitorul Hatashil pe nume Susan Lowell și super-bărbatul bun la toate, Michael Teak care este un soldat sau un fel de agent secret trimis în Africa.Toate personajele mentionate mai sus erau ... moredoar niste marionete pentru a-i reabilita numele unui om pe nume Hatashil, care avea ca scop...nici eu nu stiu care era scopul lui, insa un lucru stiu sigur: pentru prima data nu am inteles nimic din ce am citit.*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~English review:I never liked the books with a very detalied action and this book has bored me a lot.I have to admit that details are important for writing a book, but here they were really many combined in a strange way with memories from the past.There were four charathers which survived: an Affrican student, called David Aya, his girlfried Jane Baker which want to be a journalist, a Harvard professor called Susan Lowell which won a Pulitzer Prize and the super-man Michael Teak wich is a sort of secret agent sent in Africa.All these charathers are only some pupets in the hands of a someone named Hatashil who I don't know what is in his mind, but I know something for sure: it's the first time when I didn't understand at all what I read.
review 2: I wanted to know what it felt like to operate as a student on the Harvard campus and among the families of the elite, and the author's real-life experience in that environment comes through. I expected to contrast the indulgence of today's student with the public spirit shown by Theodore Roosevelt's family and their peers, but I saw those, even today, who look beyond themselves. Also gained some insight into the international student experience and how to pray for and connect with them om on the campus where I worked. Grieved by the casual attitude toward drugs and toward sex out of marriage that I'm finding in nearly every contemporary novel that is not overtly, and often unrealistically, Christian. less

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