Another book entry

Okay... So I have no idea how to start this blog entry. Honestly, this is the best book I've ever read. I can't even thank my teacher enough for recommending it. How do you talk about the best book ever? It's called I Am The Messenger by markus zusak. Weirdly enough, even though I love it to pieces, I would not recommend it to any of my classmates. It addresses serious topics and can occasionally contain inappropriate content that you have to take seriously in order to enjoy the book. All that aside, it's about a suburban taxi cab driver named Ed Kennedy. The book starts on a humorous sort of note, when Ed and three of his friends are involved in a bank robbery. They start arguing about Ritchie's car while in this serious situation. Eventually Ed apprehends the robber. Later, he gets a card in the mail. The ace of diamonds, starting his path down a road of no return. I really love ed. He's very real, and it's all narrated by him, so you get to know what he's like as a person very quickly. He's funny in a dark pessimistic sort of way, and generally a good guy, though he's only viewed as one through the people he saves. Sophie, a girl he manages to help, asks him if he's a saint, which he denies. He just says he's a human. I can hardly set the book down, and sometimes I laugh uncontrollably while reading it, or grin widely, or get a weird sort of twisted look of concern on my face that causes people to ask me what's wrong.
Really. This is my favorite book of all time.


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