A Silence Opens - Amy Clampitt

Advantages: Excellent formatting and storyline
Disadvantages: length

...Once you first start this book you won't want to put it down! This is a very quick read and it is very well written. The book is set for the age group of teenagers and it teaches a very important message to the readers about Internet chat rooms. It all starts with a very easy setting, which any teenage girl can relate too. It starts with many teenage girls, at school in groups. This is very typical for children at secondary school as there are many different groups. Obviously there would be the popular crowd and the 'odd' ones. So with a mild argument with her friends, Amy decides to use Internet chat rooms. She meets this guy, and knowing a teenage girl's mind, creates strong feelings for him. She then decides to meet him. This is where it all goes wrong.... the book is laid out in a very easy-to-read format, with some text... Read review

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Advantages: A fantatsic read, with lots of twists, gives a look into the rookie world of the FBI
Disadvantages: A rather gory tale

...Thomas Harris is proving to be an excellent writer, silence of the lambs was the first book by Thomas Harris that I read. Silence of the lambs tells the story of a young fbi agent who is assigned the case of catching a serial killer. The killer (who is nicknamed buffalo bill) is abducting plumpish women, keeping them in a pit for a while, then killing them and skinning them, for the purpose of making himself into a woman by sewing skin from different victims together. Starling the agent goes to visit Hannibal the cannibal for a profile of the killer, hannibal sees the young agent as a way for him to escape, so he does a deal and gives the profile. The events are dramatic and the story line never loses it`s edge, hannibal gets what he wants and is transported, during which he gets the opportunity to escape. The hunt for Buffalo... Read review

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Advantages: Still an enjoyable book
Disadvantages: Slow and difficult to get into.

...I have read five Martin Amis books after I became completely hooked two years ago. I was saving 'the rachel papers' as I knew it was guaranteed to be one of the best..after all the did turn it into a film. However when I got around to reading it I found it a huge disappointment. Maybe I chose to read it at the wrong time, but I found I couldn't get into the book now matter how many times I tried. I found it very slow. There was a clear plot: boy needs girl and must get her. The boy is nearing 21 (I believe he was played by Dexter Fletcher in the screen version) who is transfixed by a girl who is in a completely different league to him - a rather upperclass girl who treats him like dirt and seems to string him along to draw out the book. He spends the majority of his time hidden in his basement bedroom drinking alcohol... Read review

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