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The document summarizes reviews from four people (Kerry, Imogen, Liz, and Hannah) of books they have recently read: 1) Kerry criticizes Sundance by Teresa Wilson for having unconvincing characters with pointless details and not capturing what it's like to be a teenager. 2) Imogen praises Orchid by Henry Rathbone for its imagery but notes it glosses over cultural details and has a disappointing ending. 3) Liz was deeply moved by Wild Ways by Margery Emerson and still has vivid images from the devastating and well-researched story based on real events. 4) Hannah struggled to enjoy the classic High Hills by Mary Holland

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READING CLASS - Upper p1

The document summarizes reviews from four people (Kerry, Imogen, Liz, and Hannah) of books they have recently read: 1) Kerry criticizes Sundance by Teresa Wilson for having unconvincing characters with pointless details and not capturing what it's like to be a teenager. 2) Imogen praises Orchid by Henry Rathbone for its imagery but notes it glosses over cultural details and has a disappointing ending. 3) Liz was deeply moved by Wild Ways by Margery Emerson and still has vivid images from the devastating and well-researched story based on real events. 4) Hannah struggled to enjoy the classic High Hills by Mary Holland

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READING CLASS – UPPER INTERMEDIATE

You are going to read an article in which four people comment on a book they have read recently.

A C

Sundance by Teresa Wilson Orchid by Henry Rathbone


Kerry: Imogen:
I really don't know why this book is so popular. I mean, I This is a delightful novel full of wonderful imagery, a paints
suppose it is going to appeal to young girls who want danger a remarkable picture of life in a distant time and a far-away
and romance, but I found this book really tedious. For a start, place. If you're looking to learn about Eastern culture in great
the characters were really unconvincing. The author went out detail, then this is probably not the book for you, as the writer
of her way to add lots of details about the characters, but I skims over most of the more complicated aspects of the
found these details really pointless. I thought that some of country's etiquette. The historical aspects are also not
the facts she presented about the main characters would covered in much depth. However, I wonder whether this was
become significant in some way later in the novel, but they the writer's intention. By doing this, he symbolise the
didn't. They were just worthless bits of information. I also superficiality of the girl's life. She, like the book, is beautiful
was disappointed that, although this book is meant to be and eager to please, but remains too distant from us, the
about kids at high school, the writer seems to have no readers, to teach us much. Although I loved the book and
recollection at all about what it's like to be 17. The main read it in one sitting, the ending was a bit of a
character thought and acted like a 32-year old. It just wasn't disappointment. A story which involves so much turmoil, in
believable. I'm not saying Teresa Wilson is a bad writer. She a place where the future is uncertain, should not have a
can obviously string words together and come up with a happy-ever-after fairy-tale ending.
story that is appealing to a large number of people, but she
lacks anything original. There is no flair. It just uses the same
sort of language as you can see in many other mediocre
novels. D

B High Hills by Mary Holland


Hannah:
Wild Ways by Margery Emerson I read this book for a literature class. I know it's a classic,
Liz: and I did try to like it, but I just didn't get into it. I kept
I have to say that I won't forget this book for a long time. I persevering, hoping that I'd start to enjoy it, but no such
was hooked from the very first chapter. The devastating story luck. The famous scene out on the moors was definitely the
affected me so much that I don't know if I'll ever feel the best bit of the book, but even that I found ridiculous when it
same again. I was close to tears on several occasions. I've is clearly supposed to be passionate. As I approached the
got images in my brain now that I don't think will ever leave end of the book, I figured there must be some kind of moral
me. It's incredibly well-researched and, although it is fiction, to the story, something that I would learn from the
is based on shocking real-life events. I learned an awful lot experience of trudging through seven hundred long pages,
about things that went on that I never knew before. Margaret but there was nothing worthwhile. I don't know why the
Emerson has a brilliant way with words and I really felt real literary world sees this book as such a masterpiece. The
empathy towards the characters, although I was sometimes characters are portrayed as being intelligent, but they do
irritated by the choices they made. However, the parallel such stupid things! And as for it being a love story - marrying
story, the part that is set in the present, is not quite so good. someone you don't love and then being abused by them -
I found myself just flicking through that part so that I could that doesn't spell love to me.
get back to 1940s Paris.

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