Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda-Leopard
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (926 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393321827 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 94 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A prodigy Many children of fourteen have trouble reading, much less writing well enough to get published. It's a child's story, but already you get glimpes of Aubrey/Maturin. If you're a book collector--and even if you are not--get it for value, and of course for the sheer pleasure of reading what is truly a well-told tale. The first sentence of the first page grabbed me and it never let go. Listen to this:First you must understand that I am a panda-leopard. My father was a giant panda and my mother a sno. Caesar This book follows the life of a panda leopard. At first, he's nameless, living with his brothers, sister, and mother in a cave. Later he's captured, put into a cage and domesticated. He learns first to live this kind of life. Then he learns to love his master. He comes to the point where his love for his master overcomes his reason. Caesar questions this, but comes back to the fact he does love his master and wouldn't think of disobeying or hurting him. The story also covers another part of his . Boring Patrick O'Brian was only fourteen when he wrote CAESAR, and it shows. The writing is clunky, the story repetitive, and the transitions between scenes awkward. I suppose O'Brian fans might enjoy reading one of his first stories, but I don't know his work, so I just found it boring.
Through the eyes and voice of this fabulous creature, we learn of his life as a cub, his first hunting exploits, his first encounters with man, his capture and taming. When he was fourteen years old and beset by chronic ill health, Patrick O'Brian began creating his first fictional character. Reviews hailed the author as the "boy-Thoreau." "We can see here a true storyteller in the making.a gripping narrative, which holds the reader's attention and never flags."The Spectator. It was published in England and the United States, and in translation in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Japan. Caesar was published in 1930, three months after O'Brian's fifteenth birthday, but the dry wit and unsentimental precision O'Brian readers savor in the Aubrey/Matur
"Unluckily the pig had time to squeal," writes the young O'Brian, and this attracted the man who, with a cry, picked up a stone. Then I sprang straight at him. --Regina Marler. After his mother dies in a forest fire, the panda-leopard is forced to teach himself the fine points of hunting. With its detached, authoritative narrative voice, Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda-Leopard reads more like a novel for young adults than a book written by one--though it is hard to imagine a grown-up writer including so many vividly realized hunting scenes, culminating in spurting blood and gore. His arm went back and the stone flew towards me like a bird. A wonderful read, recalling Kipling's Kim and The Jungle Book. It hit me on the same tender place which had never quite got better, and it angered me beyond words, and dropping the pig I charged, running low along the ground. With a shriek, the man