Friday, March 28, 2008
Paranoid Park
Right now I'm reading Paranoid Park by Blake Nelson. It's an intense story about a junior in high school skateboarder (his name is never given), who is accidentally involved in the death of a man. He is terrified and doesn't know what to do or where to turn. To tell or not to tell, that is the question. This haunts him for months. I don't know what happens, as I haven't finished the book, but it really makes the reader think about how fragile life is and how it can change in an instant because of choices we make and people with whom we associate. I will finish the book today, I'm sure, so I'll have more information later. Skateboarders would definitely enjoy this book, but you don't have to be a skateboarder to appreciate the predicament in which the narrator finds himself or to get wrapped up in the suspense of whether or not he'll tell. What would you do?
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