Evaluation

My evaluation of the book

I have read a book named ”The Snapper”. It is about a young girl getting pregnant with a married man she doesn’t like at all. The book describes Sharon, the main characters feelings about what is happening inside her, the problems in her family and the daily life in an Irish family at this time. What I liked about the book was that it was few main persons, it was action on every page and it may be a true story. I also liked the arguing, the discussions and in some ways the way they approached to each other. It made the pages exciting and made me wanting continue reading. The main character, Sharon was a good girl that I liked reading about. She was always thinking wisely and had realistic thoughts.

What I didn’t liked about the book was that the constant dialog was written in Irish dialect. That dialect isn’t my special field. I like English books better, because I am used to that language. If we are going to read more books, I will like to pick one with a language form which I like. This book was dominated by direct speaking that occurred on dialect, which I didn’t think was that of a good choice, made by the author. But the plot in the book became more clear with this kind of language and the tough expressions. I would have preferred a book written in an international language. The parts of the book that were in plain writing were better in my opinion. Sometimes it were hard to remember every little detail that the characters said. If you do not remember it is easy to loose the track.

Sometimes words and expression was hard to understand, but I understood it in the context. Some word and expressions were explained in the back of the book, which was good. Glossaries and questions sometimes helped me understand.I also used it with my analysis of the book. An other thing that could have been different in my opinion was Sharons brothers and sisters. I thought it were too many which didn’t have anything to say for the plot of the book. The author probably wanted to write about a normal Irish family with many children so I guess that was the point, but I think he could have involved them more in the main action. There were too many names in the book that I didn’t remember. But luckily the main characters were described in order in the beginning of the book.

I will not recommend the book to other readers. Reasons for this are mainly a lot of dialog in the book, which makes it a little hard to read. I don’t think I would have read the book if I didn’t had to write this assignment. I didn’t learn much that I did not knew, except something about some peoples situation in Ireland. What I really think is that the book is okay to read, but not amazing. A profit is that the book isn’t in that many pages, around 300 with a lot of dialog. In some parts I think the author wrote almost the same and I did not surprise me. Sometimes I could guess what the characters would say or do. That is not good for a book I believe. I found a lot more negative than positive. Therefore I would not have read the book if I were you.