Reading Response #1

The book I am reading is called Voyage Along the Horizon by Javier Marias. It was originally written in Spanish.

The book has been interesting so far. It is written in first person, and the main character's name is not yet known because there has been no dialogue. The main character so talking about the past, and is about to flash back to it. The book is a story within a story. I find this intriguing. I know the basic idea of how the book ends, and I know that the main character survives. This leaves me to focus on the setails of the story.

I quote I have found interesting is: "The feeling that you have made a fool of yourself, that you have wasted an opportunity you have sought for so long, that you have acted dishonorably, forever ruined a very well laid plan, failed to rise to the occasion, lacked tact and self-control, seemed impertinent and unpleasantly obvious, lost someone's respect--in short, the feeling that you have behaved like a perfect lout, is perhaps one of the most painful and humiliating sensations a man can ever know" (10-11). I have felt like this before, so I can relate to the character. This also gives me an outline on what will happen during the book.