Three Rules For A Good Book
The two books that I read this summer are: "California Blue" by David Klass, and
"Mr. Tucket" by Gary Paulsen.
"There are three rules for writing a good book. Unfortunately no one knows what
they are". That quote was said by W. Somerset Maugham. Every Author has their own
three rules. I came up with my own. The three rules that I think are the most important.
The first rule that I think every book should have is a good opening sentence, and
the whole structure of the beginning has to be good. In the first sentence the Author has
to grab the reader, so that the reader will want to keep on reading. In the first book that I
read "Mr. Tucket" by Gary Paulsen, the Author started out with this sentence "Francis
Alphonse Tucket came back to life slowly". This is a good starting sentence because it
makes the reader wonder what had happened before. What happened that made Francis
unconscious, or maybe he was dead, and was brought back to life using smoked of a Alien
device. At this point no one knows. You have to read on to find out, and before you notice
it you are half way into the book. However in the second book that I read by David Klass
"California Blue" the Author took a whole different approach. He started with this sentence
"I don't know why running through a redwood forest always made me think of death". In
this case the Author started in the middle of the book. This is the first time when I read a
book that started like that. It was kind of confusing because I didn't know what was going
on, until the Author started going back and telling what happened to the character that
made him run through the woods, and than he continued on with the book. It makes the
reader want to keep on reading to find out what is going on. To find out why is the
character running through the woods, is somebody chasing him? Both of these books
make the reader wonder what is going to happen next, they grab the reader and make
him read on. Books with good opening sentences are the...
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