Win How I Live Now Penned By Meg Rosoff File Ebook

I start, I should say this is my favourite film and book, so this will be a long review :p , but hopefully you'll find it helpful, but mostly I'll be comparing it to the film, talking about the differences etc.
Ok I should start by saying I've seen the film as well as listening to this audio bookI saw the film first, and also the film has audio description, so both are accessible to visually impared people like me.
There are many differences between the audio book and film, some good, some bad, but to be honest on the whole I think the film is quite a bit better, however considering the film is my favourite film ever, the book is still amazing.
One of the main differences is with the characters and character development, The character who differs most is the main character Daisy, In the film she is abrasive, bitchy, cold etc at first, and to some extent after first meeting her, This is toned down massivley in the book, and the film makes Daisy seem less normal , she seems to have issues in the film.
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I find film Daisy relatable due to this xd and therefore prefer film Daisy, However one problem I had with the film is Daisy and Edmund's relationship seemed rushed, And on this front the book does improve on this, as the book is longer than the film and the time from them first meeting to them being seperated feels longer in the book.
This combined with the fact book Daisy feels normal and the book does a better job of convincingly portraying Daisy as slutty, along with Edmund through her thoughts on him, and in the book it feels realistic for Daisy and Edmund to start having sex and start a relationship so soon after meeting.
Also the other male in the household who's name I forgetespecially as I think it's different in the book, and in both only has a small role is just a family friend in the film if I'm not mistaken, but is a cousin in the book, and it makes sense in my opinion for him to be a cousin.
Finally Isaac is totally different, probably the biggest change apart from Daisy, and I prefer film Isaac, book Isaac is quiet, in touch with animals etcremind you of anyone Yep he is too much like Edmund, the film does a good job at making him his own character.
But on that front too the film also achieves this with Edmund, In the book he isn't portrayed as in touch with animals as he is in the film, Isaac is really, I think the film stole some of Isaac's qualaties for Edmund tbh.
And yeah Isaac and Edmund just seem too similar in the book, and generally the film portrays Edmund as interesting and distinctive, Plus it helps that the cast in the film are just amazing, Ronan being one of my favourite actresses, You'll notice I didn't mention piper, and that is because Piper is largely the same, Just as adorable :p. Then there is the issue of the war, The book is longer and in my opinion portrays the build up to the war, and the war in general better, though how it is portrayed in the film is pretty good.
However one gripe I have is that the book does very well at portraying how dangerous the war is to the average citizen, the UK as a whole, and even the world, but not as good at portraying the danger to the main characters.
But this might be because I saw the film previously, which does the reverse, focussing on the characters in terms of immediate danger, and less on the world at large.
So there's pros and cons with both depictions, the book does a better job at world building, the film does better at showing the constant threat the main characters face.
As for the ending, well I can't say too much in case anyone hasn't seen the film, and especially if anyone hasn't read/listened to the book.
But the comparisons are what you'd expect from what I'd say already, but I again prefer the film's ending, So in summary the film is better in many ways, but the book is better in some ways, So I'd suggest listening to the book first, then watching the film, especially as the book does do a better job at world building.
Looking at the book by itself, without comparing it to the film it really is very good, and although I prefer a fair few things in the film, and have a couple of minor issues with the book, it's an amazing book, with an amazing plot and characters, and definatly a good listen.
Este era el libro de lectura obligada para el verano en inglés deº de ESO, Le gustó mucho! I had two attempts at reading this book, The first time I out it down before chapter four because the style seemed jarring with its plethora of conjunctions and over elongated sentence structure.
Then and I NEVER do this I saw the film and loved it so much I went back and tried the book again and loved it just as much.
I think initially we're not supposed to like Daisy she doesn't afterall like herself all that much, It's in watching her become herself and learning to see herself through other peoples' eyes that makes her an engaging character that we come to love too.
The style choice that initially put me off was all about voice, Once I'd persevered through the jarring beginning, it really worked, This book is going to linger with me a long time which is the best advert for a book that there is, as far as I'm concerned.
Daisy's voice does mature as the book goes on and I love the characters of her English relatives especially Piper, Perhaps best of all, while this does look at war and it's senselessness, and how a teenager stuck in the middle of it might try and make sense of it, it's not really about war but about its effects.
This has a happy ending but it's not untinctured by lingering sadness, No one really goes through this unscathed, If like me you tried it and put it down, I'd urge you to pick it up again and have another go,.Well earned. Daisy, the hard bitten Manhattan teen, who forms the main character thread in thisnovel, is thrust into a world at war, Occupation of the British mainland during an ugly dystopian future causes lives to unravel and turn feral as the forces of destruction penetrate the rural calm of the British countryside.
Meg Rosoff is on a mission here to fly the banner in defence of seasonal beauty through the wartime suffering of the very people who seek to preserve it.
Told from the jaded perspective of anorexic Daisy, far from her tornth Street home in Upper Manhattan, the prose sprints along you're likely to spot a comet than a comma on most pages and helps to kick start her life in the company of the angelicyear old cousin Piper, big eyed and witch like.
The horror of an imagined third world war is brought home vividly in the savage killings at checkpoints and farmyards, all of it witnessed by Daisy and Piper, but never fully explained.
It is just the way people 'live now', whenever that is, The point is driven home with steel plate decisiveness that war and nature make bad bedfellows, It takes the innocence of children to find edible watercress and honeycombs, to milk cows in danger of mastitis and hear the rhythms of the seasons tick over.
When cousins have to share their lot in a land bludgeoned and torn asunder by the evils of war, that innocence becomes the source of the keenest urge to survive, whatever the cost.
Daisy's love for Edmond, one of the older cousins, is somehow made to be a part of that whole joy in life experience and Meg Rosoff is very good at keeping all suggestions of prurience or tackiness out of their young love.
Like the broken compass that Daisy finds after finding a corpse strewn village, the novel moves with a deliberate haphazardness through nature's plenty, a defiant world of hazelnuts, apples and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Piper is elevated on to a plinth of beguiling, cherubic beauty and is too ethereal to be believed, a will 'o' the wisp character that is hard to fit into the already otherworldly beauty of the family of cousins that Daisy regards as misfits but wants so much to protect.
Yes, I did want to know about the politics of the Occupation, the role of the US, who was fighting whom and for what cause, but none of these things belong to the Daisy driven universe dominating every perspective in the book.
The girl who suffered, starved and sacrificed her trodden down, tumbledown identity in the crush of New York becomes a force for change, for love and peace towards the end.
This coming of rage novel with its elvish, self deprecating genius in Daisy and fine take up of the Crusoe survival come what may theme gives this a starred credit in the annals of earlyst century children's literature.
Cruel and shocking scenes interleave with others showing tenderness and affection, Under the loose flowing garb of punctuation free paragraphs, a serious planetary message starts to settle in the mind, as topical now as never before.
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