01.Aug.2007 The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
I wanted to read Jodi Picoult’s book for some time, but just never got the chance to. This is her first book that I read, and it’s good enough to make me wanting more of her work.
I just picked up this book out of the shelves in Border Singapore (I like the cover), then sat down reading it for hours. When it got too dark to continue, I decided I might as well buy the book because I’ve gone through about 1/3 of it.
The Tenth Circle is a story about an average family of husband, wife, and a daughter, living in a small city. Husband is a comic author, stay-at-home dad, with difficult past. Wife is career oriented woman, fell into extramarital affair. Daughter is a stereotype troubled teenager, busy living in her own world. One day, she came home, raped by her ex-boyfriend, a guy who is so loved by everybody in the city. That’s where the story begins.
Like what people say, I think Jodi is really articulate in extracting human behaviours. Like most of her books, the stories are usually based on extensive research of real life cases, brewed together with imagination and story telling skill. Which makes them rather interesting in some ways than pure fiction.
The book is also a good insight into the latest of teenage trends and behaviours, of which some are quite unbelievable for me. There is a game called Rainbow where a bunch of girls with different bright color lipstick under a table with a bunch of guys sitting all around it. The guy who gets the most colorful penis wins. I mean, seriously, this kind of thing really happens? In your average high school? In a small city? Whatever happens in big city then? Whatever happens to the world? Scary.
~Finished on 10 August 2006
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
