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P: Why did you choose this book? What are your expectations?
R: On the last day of first semester when you gave us our homework to read, read, read, I decided that my 13 hour road trip to New York would be a good place to do just that. In searching for a book recommendation, I went to my little sister whom is an avid reader. She is very into fantasy books and I asked that she not give me any teen novels about vampires. I laughed when she pulled off the shelf two novels that I had never seen her reading in my life. Pinocchio and The DaVinci Code. I assume she thought the recommendations to be fool proof considering they had both been made into films. I first began reading The DaVinci Code but as I mentioned in my review of summer reading it felt much to much like the movie and left me very little room to create scenery or to imagine how I pictured the characters which, for me, is half the fun in reading a new book. This is when I turned my attention to Pinocchio. I knew that over the course of the year you had assigned us to read a classic and I figured this could be a good option. I had also seen the movie Pinocchio, of course, and I began to wonder how much the modern story line of this fairy tale had been distorted. As I began to read I continued to laugh out loud with in even the first few pages because the writing seemed so utterly ridiculous! The fight that develops between Geppetto and Antonio had me laughing enough to make my family wonder what exactly I was reading. At this point I flipped back to the front of the story and began reading out loud for 8 hours of my car ride.
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