Roadwork (SOME SPOILERS)

[deathislife]

I see people complaning about it being bleak, but I thought that's what made it a good story. And I agree that it did start out boring, but by the time it got to December (Part 2), I was having fun with it. It may sound odd, but when I read, I like to speak what the characters say out-loud. It just makes it more of a fun experience.

And my favorite character of this book was Sal, hands-down. I loved his character. I also thought Ordner was interesting.

Overall, I liked the book more then I thought I would. I have it, like everyone else it seems, in a copy of The Bachman Books.I'd love to see a movie, but it's never going to happen.

[Princemeister]

Firstly i'd like to say that this is my least favourite of the 4 in the Bachman Books collection, although to put into context i still really enjoyed it i just thought the other 3 were better.

I got the feeling that Bart never really wanted or knew how to move on after his loss but the forced moving of house and business meant that he had to. He was obviously having some kind of internal breakdown and knew how it would end- i got from the book that it wasn't that he didn't know what he wanted, more that he knew there wasn't anything he did want that could be achieved. He wanted his son and his house and business as it was but knew it couldn't be.