“BOOK’S REVIEW”
Subject: English 1
Teacher: Antonio Baca
Student: Karla A. Hernández Gutiérrez.
Book: “El psicoanalista” (John Ketzenbach)
In this book we follow closely Ricky Starks, a psychoanalyst who, on having begun the book, fulfills 53 years. As birthday gift and before it finishes the last meeting of the day it receives a letter. In the same one, someone of its past, he wishes him happy birthday and gives him the welcome to the first day of its death. The supposed killer tells him that he has been observing it and that it came to the conclusion that to kill it would be very easy so in its place he prefers that he commits suicide himself. It gives him a margin of 15 days so that it discovers its identity, if it fails and does not commit suicide, in its place it is going to kill some member of its family. The letter is signed by a RUMPLESTILTSKIN.
15 days of term pass in a sigh and Ricky does not manage to discover almost anything concrete. Also in these two weeks there presents before herself a very pretty young woman that Virgil makes call and makes sure him that she will be its guide towards the hell. Virgil is not the only surprise that Ricky has in these days. The gentleman R, as Virgil calls its chief, and its followers carry out a series of actions to ruin Ricky's life, from getting with its finance up to discrediting it in its work and, obviously, to end up by turning it paranoiac. Any thing that Ricky does to try to discover the Rumplestiltskin identity, is already one passed him.
The book splits into three parts, each one has a different function and each one adds something new.
A rapid revision for the personages. Ricky is a boring and routine guy. From the death of its wife, a pair of years behind, it sank in its work and moved away from the world. Ricky evolves and changes enough into the novel, it starts by being a predictable type to end up by turning in more intelligent and a little vindictive someone. I loved Virgil, it is bold and suspicious, I would dare to say that it is quite passional. Merlin (other of the followers) is a chubby scoundrel and directly, it has no hair in the language. And Rumplestiltskin is slippery and we do not know anything about him until the end.
Per moments I was bothering that Ricky was so slightly perceptive, it is supposed that being a psychoanalyst the perception is its fortress, nevertheless there are many things that turn out to be obvious per moments and they spend him to him completely for high place. The protagonist bothered me that thing about. But towards the end I surprised it and I cannot complain any more.
As for the villain, or the villains. . . scarcely I began the book cheered up to mark my first suspect and the true thing is that I was right, but we do not know that until the end, obviously. Also I foresaw to the first track what age what was linking the followers with Rumplestiltskin and only there escaped from me one, which I did not also surprise because the proprietor of the book me spoileó accidentally before he was reading it.
Anyway, The Psychoanalyst is a vertiginous history with a protagonist who evolves very much along the book and a very quite woven mystery that spreads to 20 years behind. I enjoyed it very much, I liked the Katzenbach style and the end extracted a satisfaction smile to me.
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