I recently read a story called; The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky from the book A River Runs Through It. I wasn't too particular on this story. I just had a hard time getting into the book and it really didn't catch my attention the way I would have wanted it too. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a horrible book by any means; it was just something that didn't catch my interests to its fullest ability.
The descriptions of the place in this novel were quite impressive. The author was very good at making you feel like you are sot to speak "part of the scene." The way the words and descriptions ran together were perfect, most of the time. The words he used were a great example of how he was feelings and or what the place looked like. Some of the time the novel was hard to following only in the fact that he had very long sentences.
Other than the description parts and the poker fight in the novel, it wasn't my favorite thing to read..... I wasn't interested in "packing" and mountain climbing.. I bet if I went into it with a little more enthusiasm; I would have enjoyed the book a little better. Maybe even if I came from it with a boy's viewpoint rather than my own.. Next time I will try some different tactics.
I will share a passage in this novel from a descriptive scene that caught my attention. It reads: "The smoke from those fires drifted seven hundred miles to Denver, and in my home town of Missolua the street lights had to be turned on in the middle of the afternoon, and curled ashes brushed softly against the lamps as if snow were falling heavily in the heat of August."
Not a terrible novel, but not my favorite.
