the
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Essays on GMB and his work
Tomas
Friedhoff, age 15, from The Netherlands chose Vinland
for a class assignment. Here are extracts from his book report.
Title:
Vinland
Publication
Date: 1992 I really liked the book because there was no shortage of action. From the first till the last page it was a nice book to read. All the travels to distant places, several struggles for the governance of Orkney and the description of the interesting life of Ranald himself make a perfect combination. The book isn’t the most difficult adult title, but I wouldn’t say that it belongs to the adolescent section either. It’s a kind of hybrid-version, it is too easy for adult but too difficult for 16/17 year olds. The author also uses a fair amount of sailing and agricultural terms which makes it more difficult to read, but you just got to get the hang of it or just read past it. Therefore I recommend it to anyone who is interested, both adults and adolescents, because it’s just beautiful to read about the sea and distant islands like that. The book is so good that it made me forget everything around me and in my opinion that’s the sign of a great book: you forget everything else while you’re reading and you don’t want to stop till you’ve finished the book. To read the whole book report Click Here |