book blog

The book i read was called Car Trouble by Jeanne DuPrau, this book is essentially about a high school graduate, Duff Pringle, who is in search of a job in California. The only problem is that his car is, to say the least,  out of date. He owns and drives a old Ford station wagon for about a hundred miles and then it breaks down. As he goes to get it repaired, the mechanic says it will take 3-4 days to get his car fixed. This is bad news for Duff who only has two weeks to get to California. But  Duff soon finds an add that is asking for someone to drive a car to Saint Louis and drop it off. Duff calls in for the add and says he can do the job. Before Duff sets off to Saint Louis, and while was waiting in the parking lot of the hotel, he meets Stu, a hitchhiker who happens to be going to California also. the two set off toward the west coast, but there journey is far from dull, they meet up with superber singers, hard going thugs, and a very likeable dog. This book as you may know is fiction, it is a story of a young man and his journey crossed the country. The book was written with very nice flow, this made it very easy to lose your self in. It was also not very challenging to read (it is a young adult level book), this made it wonderful for me because i could breeze right through with out having to slow down to understand the text. although this book was a little less about exotic cars, and a little more about the development of a young man and his friend, it was still centered round a car. And in that respect it represented my topic, it  did not however lead to any further knowledge about my topic. Before i started reading this book i knew it was not really going to help me with understanding my topic that much more then i already did. Because of a lack of nonfiction stories about my topic i chose Car Trouble in hopes that i would at least get a good fiction story about cars (which i suppose is better then no story about cars). In the end i learned about how cars need to be placed high on the priorites list because with out them we whould have much more trouble getting from place to place. Also the worth of the car is more about where it can take you and less about how much you spent on it.


     I apoligize for the lack of lenth but the book i read was hard to fit into the criteria of this weeks blog, and it did not aply to some of the questios.