Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett - Book Review
When I was in elementary school, I read a book called 'Loser' by Jerry Spinelli. It was about a boy about the same age as I was, named Zinkoff (his last name), and he basically was a klutz, couldn't do anything right, and other kids made fun of him. But one defining night, he finds out that Claudia, who I think was his neighbour's daughter?, went missing in the winter dark. Zinkoff goes to find her all alone, amid the police sirens wailing,which he assumes are part of a search party for Claudia. Though it turns out that she had already been rescued hours ago, and that the search party was for him; a real klutz through and through. But the book ends with him being able to size up a bully during recess, and actually winning his respect, or something like that. It's a good old heartwarming story of how even a 'loser' can be a hero in his own sense. Interestingly and yet probably understandably, I kept thinking about this book when I was reading the Three Nove...