Helpful Score: 3
Very interesting book about the last days of quirky man. I enjoyed it very much. My only negative comment is that there was no punctuation for the dialogue. It was a little hard to figure out at times. But other than that, it was a wonderful read.
Helpful Score: 2
I have , thankfully , never seen the movie Bucket List. I have , thankfully , read The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson. The ads for Bucket List left me thinking "How crass , it is sure to be a hit.". The End of the Alphabet is the opposite. It is beautiful. It is a beautiful love story. It is a beautiful love story and an A to Z journey.
Ambrose Zephyr and his wife Zappora Ashkenazi , known as Zipper, are on a journey to visit all the places they have dreamed of going before Ambrose dies. They do so in an A to Z fashion. The End of the Alphabet is such a sweetly told tale not of just the journey to these places but of the journey that is their lives and the special love they have. The last sentence is so beautiful I cryed lovely tears.
As an interesting side note there is a passage that describes me better than I or anyone else ever has or could. Ambrose is a young boy and he is drawing the alphabet depicting each letter. " .....A is for Anaconda, B is for booby , C is for codfish.........When his father asked why A wasn't apple or B wasn't bird or C wasn't cat , young Ambrose explained that things didn't always have to be the way you'd expect.
Everybody does apples and birds and cats , he said , and it's boring to do what everybody else does........"
Ambrose Zephyr and his wife Zappora Ashkenazi , known as Zipper, are on a journey to visit all the places they have dreamed of going before Ambrose dies. They do so in an A to Z fashion. The End of the Alphabet is such a sweetly told tale not of just the journey to these places but of the journey that is their lives and the special love they have. The last sentence is so beautiful I cryed lovely tears.
As an interesting side note there is a passage that describes me better than I or anyone else ever has or could. Ambrose is a young boy and he is drawing the alphabet depicting each letter. " .....A is for Anaconda, B is for booby , C is for codfish.........When his father asked why A wasn't apple or B wasn't bird or C wasn't cat , young Ambrose explained that things didn't always have to be the way you'd expect.
Everybody does apples and birds and cats , he said , and it's boring to do what everybody else does........"
I was expecting so much more...
I really found this book poignant~ good for anyone facing the end of their life, & for making a "bucket list." Sweet...
Loved it!!!!! Read it in one sitting :)
