Independent Reading Term Two
One Sentence Book Reports and the Twitter Pitch
1) John le Carré’s A Delicate Truth follows the events of a secret operation carried out in the British colony of Gibraltar through the eyes of two simple British civil servants cast into a world of adept spies and complex politics.
2) John le Carré’s A Delicate Truth is a book that deals with ideas of morality and collateral damage in a post 9/11 world when a covert operation’s efficacy is raised.
3) John le Carré’s A Delicate Truth constructs the character of Christopher Probyn; a hard working British civil servant who is recruited to take part in a classified secret mission, Christopher is told the mission was a great success, but everything is not what it seems.
The Tweet and Responses
John le Carré spins a web of narratives and characters to craft a perplexing novel about the smoky back rooms of politics and the spy world.
This tweet effectively captures the books essence by showing the main characteristics and topics of the book: politics and espionage, and attracts the reader by intriguing them. In the book’s two different narratives the majority of the substance is made up of scenes of politics and spying while the characters try to understand the events that had transpired. Frequently the book gives you too much information at once and you are …show more content…
The book A Delicate Truth is incredibly rich with caricatures and plot. This book cannot be concentrated down into several sentences without losing a large amount of the book’s substance. All of this is characteristic of John le Carré’s writing style. He builds a world around the reader and fully immerses them with complete plot. Trying to condense a book with such detail often does a disservice to the book. It makes the book look flat and boring when in reality it is a complete
One Sentence Book Reports and the Twitter Pitch
1) John le Carré’s A Delicate Truth follows the events of a secret operation carried out in the British colony of Gibraltar through the eyes of two simple British civil servants cast into a world of adept spies and complex politics.
2) John le Carré’s A Delicate Truth is a book that deals with ideas of morality and collateral damage in a post 9/11 world when a covert operation’s efficacy is raised.
3) John le Carré’s A Delicate Truth constructs the character of Christopher Probyn; a hard working British civil servant who is recruited to take part in a classified secret mission, Christopher is told the mission was a great success, but everything is not what it seems.
The Tweet and Responses
John le Carré spins a web of narratives and characters to craft a perplexing novel about the smoky back rooms of politics and the spy world.
This tweet effectively captures the books essence by showing the main characteristics and topics of the book: politics and espionage, and attracts the reader by intriguing them. In the book’s two different narratives the majority of the substance is made up of scenes of politics and spying while the characters try to understand the events that had transpired. Frequently the book gives you too much information at once and you are …show more content…
The book A Delicate Truth is incredibly rich with caricatures and plot. This book cannot be concentrated down into several sentences without losing a large amount of the book’s substance. All of this is characteristic of John le Carré’s writing style. He builds a world around the reader and fully immerses them with complete plot. Trying to condense a book with such detail often does a disservice to the book. It makes the book look flat and boring when in reality it is a complete