Forever: A Novel
by Pete Hamill
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Author: Pete HamillEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-11
ISBN: 0316735698
Number of pages: 640
Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Book Review: 17yearold Review of Forever
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm a 17 year old high school student and here is my review of Forever.
Young Cormac O'Connor, for most his life, thought he was a part of good Christian family, but he soon learned that this was a shroud to his true identity, a Celtic. With the death of his family and everything he ever knew Cormac must travel to America to avenge the death, and honor, of his family.
Forever can be explained in the simple seven letter word of the title. This book, at first, seemed to be about wars and their relationship with New York, but it slowly evolved into the willy-nilly adventures of the never dieing Cormac O'Connor. Anyone will start to wonder how random events connect in some sort of deeper meaning of this novel, and why the relationships between characters are never strongly established and end abruptly with barley a resolution or reason for existence. Also the sudden jumps, which skip any interesting event, in time throughout the book makes one wonder, is a book about immortality worth reading?
Forever is filled with numerous characters but none of whom are memorable. The characters last for twenty pages and then drift into the abyss where the plot of this book went. At one point in the book Cormac meetings George Washington, the president not the peanut guy, and ask him if he will end slavery, and Washington simply doesn't reply. You think the book will pick up here but it doesn't. Slavery is never mentioned again, but the arbitrary death of a thieving aristocrat, Tweet, is glorified during the time period which the Civil War was being fought.
Sadly enough there is no developments in this book past the first hundred pages of this six hundred page book. Maybe there are no developments because there is no plot. This book is the arrangement of a thousand-and-one small bits of stories thrown together with no connection other than they are written in the same book. Hopefully this is the author trying to give a message; life is dull.
All of this brings up one question; can you really call this a book? I'm afraid not. It is more of an assembly of meaningless stories through the eyes of a withdrawn young man, Cormac. From the tone of the book Cormac is as tired of life as anyone with be of reading this 600 page book.
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