reading response

title: The Maestro
author: Tim Wynne Jones
genre: novel
book


This book is about a 14 year old boy named Burl who grows up with his abusive father Cal. He really controls the household with his mother on drugs and him only a kid. One day Burl finally snaps for various reasons and runs away from his home and Cal. As he is running he witnesses a piano flying over him carried only by a rope and helicopter, he is curious and carries on. As he gets farther and farther away from his home he realizes that despite his survival knowledge he cannot survive out in the wild. While he is contemplating whether or not to go back he comes to his senses and hears a piano, then sees a cottage on the lake. He peers in the window to see a man playing the very piano that flew over him. Nathaniel Orlando Gow meets him and says that he has ruined his sanctuary but is surprised to find out that he has no clue to who he is. Turns out he's a huge super-star(I also did a little research and found out he's based on Glen Gould) who just wanted out of stardom. NOG as Burl calls him soon realizes that he must leave to go back to Toronto. But one fateful day Bea (who delivers supplies via plane) informs Burl that the Maestro has passed away (yet another nick name). Bea takes him in and hires him, in an attempt to get the cottage and save it Burl goes to Toronto claiming that he is the Maestro's son. He meets a friend of the Maestro who tells him that he should focus on saving the song that NOG was writing instead and then sadly you must read it for yourself.


I can guarantee that this section of parts I liked will be the shortest. Ya I liked hearing the fishing parts and the descriptions of the waters but who are we kidding that was just because I like nature.


Everything puzzled me, here's a short list:
- Who were the women in the first part of the book, they were mentioned and then never came back to them?
-Why did the maestro pay the last load with his credit card?
-How had no one discovered the abusive habits of Cal before?
-When did this take place?


I absolutely hated this book! It seemed to drone on forever, it had a thin and entertaining storyline with no meaning whatsoever. I appreciate what the author was trying to convey but this was just a poor way to write it.