Book: Alex Cross’s Trial, James Patterson

Another great book from the master storyteller. I haven’t read in a while, and this was the perfect book to start back up. As expected, Patterson delivered a great story. I enjoyed it so much partly because it was about a subject that i’m very interested in. That is negro slavery and the kkk. The story is  set in the post-emancipated south.

Alex Cross tells the incredible story—passed down through the generations—of an ancestor’s courageous fight for freedom.

SEPARATED BY TIME
From his grandmother, Alex Cross heard the story of his great-uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a book he’s written—a novel called Trial.

CONNECTED BY BLOOD
A lawyer in early-1900s Washington, D.C., Ben Corbett fights against oppression and racism—and risks his family and his life in the process. When President Theodore Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his hometown to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan there, he cannot refuse.

UNITED BY BRAVERY
In Eudora, Mississippi, Ben meets the wise Abraham Cross and his beautiful daughter, Moody. With their help, Ben discovers that lynchings have become commonplace. Ben vows to break the reign of terror—but the truth of who is really behind it may break his heart. Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross, ALEX CROSS’S TRIAL is a gripping story of murder, love, and unparalleled bravery.

Review from: www.jamespatterson.com

If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller

My thoughts on a book. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

 The Book is actually about someone trying to read ‘If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler’. The first chapter and each consecutive odd chapter are about the main character, the reader (you), reading this book, or at least attempting to read the book. Plot: after reading the first chapter, the reader realizes that there has been a mistak at the binder, and the book is messed up. Yet the first chapter has got him so ‘hooked’ that he cannot get the story out of his mind, and he has to find out what happens, this compels him to go to the bookbinder, to get the correction, and from there….

Well i won’t tell you the whole story! 🙂

This book is in a word: Mindblowing! The Author is Genius. It is complety unlike any other book or for that matter genre, then I have ever in my entire life read. And i read quite a bit. If you decide to read this please don’t go into it with any presuppositions. You have to keep a very open mind about it. It is a complicated read though. In spite of this, it is very satisfying.  I would not recommend this book for everybody. I can easily see somebody thinking it is a dumb book, because at first it makes zero sense. After reading the first chapter i had to stop, because my head was swimming with new ideas. I was greatly inspired. It has given me a completley new aspect on my writing.   Now That is quite a big talkup for just one book, and you may not get the same from it as I did. Maybe it’s just me. But if you do read it, let me know  what you think about it.