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Hello ladies and gentlemen. This blog is about novels. Here I have tried to give description, some general information and summary of some novels. I hope you will enjoy. Thank toy for your attention!

Taste - by Roald Dahl

Taste
by Roald Dahl

description: Novel, Story
writer: Roald Dahl
genre: Classics
date: 1989

Summary:
The setting for this story is a dinner party at the home of stock broker Mike Schofield. The guests include Schofield and his wife and daughter, the narrator and his wife, and a man called Richard Pratt. Pratt is a famous gourmet and enjoys showing off his knowledge of fine wine and food. He is also a thoroughly unpleasant man. Both times prior that Pratt dined with Schofield, the two men made a curious bet: Schofield bet that Pratt could not identify some special wine that he had procured for the night. Pratt had always won. On the night this story takes place, Schofield thinks that he will finally win one over on the gourmet. He has a very rare bottle of claret from a tiny chateau in France, and he boasts that Pratt will never be able to guess it. Pratt, who had been spending the night engrossed in conversation with Schofield's daughter Louise, takes the bet and asks to up the stakes. He offers to bet two of his houses against the hand of Louise in marriage. Both Louise and her mother are against it, but Schofield manages to convince them to accept. He believes that Pratt has no chance of winning. Pratt then proceeds to smell and taste the wine, and he slowly begins to narrow down its possible origin. Eventually he gets the correct answer and Schofield sits there horrified. Just as Pratt is starting to get nasty about the bet, the house maid appears at his arm and offers him his spectacles, which he had misplaced earlier. He takes no notice of her, but she stands her ground and reminds him (rather loudly) that he left them in Mr. Schofield's study on top of the filing cabinet when he went in there that evening... which is just where Pratt, on a previous visit, had advised Schofield to leave his wines to "breathe". In other words, he cheated!

If I were play a role in this short novel, I would prefer to play the role of the Mike Schofield, because I think this is the best character in this novel.

I think his novel end very interesting, and if I were the writer of the novel, I would end the novel exactly the same.

Plum Island - by Nelson DeMille (novel)

Plum Island
by Nelson DeMille

description: Novel
writer: Nelson DeMille
genre: Detective
date: 1997

Summary:
Plum Island is a 1997 novel by American author Nelson DeMille. It introduces NYPD detective John Corey, convalescing on the North Fork of Long Island from gunshot wounds sustained in the line of duty. The local chief of police Sylvester Maxwell asks Corey to act as consultant in a local murder investigation, the two victims Tom and Judy Gordon being personally known to Corey and, worryingly, employees on the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, a facility suspected of carrying out biological warfare research. The other parties involved in the investigation are Beth Penrose, a Suffolk County detective, George Foster, an FBI agent and Ted Nash, who claims to represent the Department of Agriculture, but is immediately recognised by Corey as a CIA "spook".

After deducing what he could from the murder scene, Corey convinces the other operatives on the case that a trip to the Plum Island facility on the earliest possible ferry would shed light on a possible motive behind the double murder. Upon arrival at the island, Corey finds that Mssrs. Nash and Foster have already visited the facility, as he had guessed they would.

I would play the role of John Corey, who is the detective of NYPD. I would play his role because he is very good at his profession and smart. Moreover he can forecast events that were coming.

If I were the writer I wouldn't use women at the end of novel. Because they were not as smart as writer used them.

Death in the Family - by James Agee

Death in the Family
by James Agee, 1957

description: Novel
writer: James Agee
genre: Classics
date: 1957

Summary:
James Agee’s novel A Death in the Family is a classic American story, chronicling just a few days in 1915 during which a husband and father is called out of town to be with his own father, who has had a heart attack, and while returning is killed in a car accident. Agee patterned the story closely after his own life, focusing on a boy who is the same age that he was when his father died. The narrative shifts from one perspective to another, including the young widow and her two children and her atheistic father and the dead man’s alcoholic brother, to name just a few, in an attempt to capture the ways in which one person’s loss immediately and powerfully affects everyone around.

The character that I like most is Jay, who is the best friend of Rufus. If I were to play a role in this novel, I would choose the role of Jay, because Jay is very stable, and fair character in this novel.

If I were a writer of this novel, I would end the novel exactly the same, as James Agee. Because the most interesting part of the novel is its ending.