The Bunker Diary

Product Information

Good News, Bad News: Linus starts off one diary entry with this trope. The good news was that the captives suddenly have a large skewer of meat after they had been starving for a while. The bad news was that next to the meat were the latest escape plans that the group had brainstormed that the kidnapper clearly found out about.

No tuve problemas al conectar con el personaje principal ni con la situación que se presentó sino que me constó, bastante, apreciar el desarrollo de la obra. Si bien la historia se cuenta en forma de diario ¿por qué la escritura no esta en función de esa estructura? ¿acaso cuando alguien escribe en su diario personal se toma la molestia de escribir todo con diálogos? Ademas, existe una enorme carencia de relaciones personales. Me da igual como era su vida anteriormente, Linus nunca intentó sonsacar información de los demás, investigarlos, ¿por qué los escogieron? ¿qué características tenían en común para que todos quedaran atrapados ahí? Simplemente él no trata de intuir nada, solo planea salir de ahí a lo bruto. urn:lcp:bunkerdiary0000broo_z5m9:epub:bf7a6bf8-ab6d-49d7-ad85-657046c69d67 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bunkerdiary0000broo_z5m9 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5kb2572t Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780141326122 E' un libro che fa male. Fa così male che fa piangere e fa torcere lo stomaco, e fa male. Fa male male male. In many ways the story is more allegorical – a horrific parody of a reality TV show in which the six victims are observed through cameras and microphones and given "games" to play for reward or punishment. The lift is the only link between them and their kidnapper: each day it descends, its doors opening to reveal suspect food, questionable instructions – or a crazed dog. Linus compares himself and the other victims to lab rats or avatars in a computer game, but as the story progresses he increasingly feels that the kidnapper is playing at God. There's nothing on its cover to alert readers – or parents – to the nastiness of its subject matter. There's no warning attached; not even a young adult specification, which is normally used to flag up books that have adult content. And the fact that this is now the winner of the Carnegie medal will mean that it will be read by more teenagers still," wrote Bradbury, asking if the Carnegie should really "champion this kind of book".

Tropes:

Sinister Surveillance: The captives are all being watched by the kidnapper. He does this by installing grilles in each room, which are each equipped with a microphone and a camera. It views everything the prisoners do. Me quedé sentado durante un rato en una oscuridad pétrea, siempre con el oído atento por si el ascensor bajaba de nuevo. No sé que esperaba, tal vez un milagro, o quizás una pesadilla. Pero no sucedió nada. Ni ascensor, ni pisadas. Ni la caballería, ni los monstruos. But there is a significant difference between a type of dark that resonates, and one that doesn't. The Bunker Diary is nasty. I love horror, and nobody can deny that horror has its own propulsive power, whether or not you like it. Horror is thrilling and involving and haunting. The Bunker Diary is sort of haunting because Brooks thinks that he can cram in every possible atrocity that man does to man, and it probably won't be panned because a. he's Kevin Brooks and b. True Art Is Angsty.

The Bunker Diary is a 2013 young adult novel by Kevin Brooks. [1] The Bunker Diary features the story of Linus Weems, a teenager who is captured and imprisoned in a mysterious bunker. [1] He wakes in a bunker where there are 6 of everything, so you do suspect that more people are going to come. And soon enough 5 more people come to join him in the bunker. Even though The Bunker Diary is chosen by a panel of librarians I honestly think that this will go on to win other awards chosen by readers themselves. Books such as The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and Slated by Teri Terry have won awards many times because the readers themselves are so passionate about the books that they read and this has nothing to do with the concept of the story or the content, just that they are undeniably well-written books which appeal to a diverse audience.This is definitely a harrowing and tense read at times. But it also has some wonderfully warm moments, particularly Linus’s protective relationship with Jenny and his obvious affection for wise, dying Russell. The storyline is at times brutal and horrific, but no worse than most teen horror novels. It’s the ending that has everyone talking. I spent most of my time reading The Bunker Diary trying desperately to work out who had trapped them and why. And how were they getting out. I had all sorts of scenarios worked out and a few main suspects. I was totally wrong. She called the book "much nastier" than other dystopian fictions such as The Hunger Games and Divergent, writing: "Here we have attempted rape, suicide and death by various means, all of it presided over by our anonymous captor, the 'dirty old man' upstairs who it's difficult not to imagine masturbating as he surveys the nubile young bodies (including a girl of nine)." Driven to Suicide: Russell. He took his glass eye out, smashed it on the floor, and slit his wrists with one of the shards. Impersonating an Officer: How Jenny got abducted. She was on a field trip to a nuclear power plant, when the kidnapper appeared to her dressed as a cop, telling her that her mother needed help. He then took Jenny away. Russell tells Linus he should kill him to be set free, but Linus refuses. Later, the group finds that Anja has been strangled to death. It is implied that the culprit is Bird, but the group can’t be sure. Despite the captor’s promises, no one is set free. During a fight, Fred unwittingly kills Bird. Russel commits suicide. Days later, the elevator descends without any note or food, and doesn’t rise again. Shortly after, all of the electricity, water, and heating is shut off. Desperate to escape the situation, Fred drinks a bottle of bleach and dies. As they starve and shudder in the cold, Linus finds himself regretting that he didn’t say goodbye to his mother. She died several years ago, but he still misses her. He starts to relieve his childhood memories. His diary entries almost become those of a child.

He now worries that he’ll starve to death in his new surroundings. He has no idea what the kidnapper (whom he calls “the man upstairs”) will do to him. Fortunately, on his third day of captivity, Linus meets a 9-year-old girl, Jenny, who gives him food. She’s not allowed out of the bunker, and becomes his first roommate. Jenny and Linus talk about who their captor may be; they both wonder aloud what they’re being punished for. It doesn’t mean anything, OK? Killing God - it doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a thing, that’s all. Just an idea, something to do, something to keep me occupied. (And no, it’s not a New Year’s resolution either.) I just like doing things that keep my mind off the things I don’t want to think about (or, to be more specific, the thing I don’t want to think about).' Ambiguous Situation: One day, the power to the bunker is cut off, leaving the remaining captives to slowly die. They never find out if the kidnapper died and was unable to look over the bunker, or if he just simply gave up on this game. Me ha gustado mucho, sinceramente. No me esperaba que la novela fuera así para nada. Lo que más destacaría es que se lee en NADA, así que si buscas una lectura rápida, este es tu libro. Quizá en un par de horas lo hayas terminado, porque no solo la historia avanza de un modo rápido, sino que el estilo del autor es algo experimental (algo que me encanta) y demuestra mediante palabras el estado del protagonista, Linus. (Puesto que la novela es un diario, tiene sentido, claro.) Así que si tenemos a un protagonista rozando la locura, no tendremos páginas repletas de letras, sino más bien, lo contrario. Páginas a medio escribir, simplemente con verbos o capítulos que son líneas en vez de páginas. No sé, estas cosas siempre me encantan.Now honestly speaking, what Kevin Brooks textually presents in his 2014 Carnegie Medal winning dystopian young adult novel The Bunker Diary is certainly brilliantly penned (and with main protagonist and diarist Linus' narrative voice shining brightly, authentically and brutally realistically). And as such, yes indeed, I definitely do consider The Bunker Diary as absolutely worthy of its Carnegie Medal designation and that Kevin Brooks as an author is with regard to his penmanship amazingly and spectacularly talented (and also, that for the right type of audience, that for readers from about the age of fourteen or so onwards who enjoy hopeless and hard hitting, brutally dystopian fiction with no happy endings, with nothing but depicted pain and suffering, suffering and even more suffering, The Bunker Diary will probably, will likely be a total reading fit so to speak). Descrive il suo rapporto con la persona più piccola del gruppo, una bimba di quasi 10 anni di nome Jenny. Linus is a sixteen-year-old boy and comes from a wealthy family. For the most of his life, he shared the house with his father. His father creates comic books, and his mother passed away when he was very young. After the death of Linus’ mother, his father started to have a drinking problem. He disliked the boarding school he had to go to as well. This resulted in Linus moving to live on the streets. There he played the guitar, begged for money or food and just tried to survive. One morning Linus wanted to help an supposedly old and blind man who was trying to lift a heavy suitcase in a van. He offered to help and climbed into the old man’s van. Before he realised there was something wrong, a cloth with chloroform got pressed against his face. Later that day he woke up in a bunker which he couldn’t escape from. I Know You're Watching Me: The prisoners constantly do this towards the grilles. Not only that, but Linus also at times writes down prompts which involve speaking directly toward the kidnapper that he knows he's reading this (which he probably has).

Yes, I think it is a fitting title. It summarizes where the book is about. If you think about a Bunker Diary you immediately think it must be a diary about a bunker. I think a lot of people get curious about this title because what kind of bunker is this and what happens in the bunker? The Bunker Diary made me think of my seriously unsettled view of True Art Is Angsty. The Bunker Diary is relentlessly miserable, depressing, and unforgiving. Think of the worst ending you can think of and triple it. It's well written, it's well structured, but it's not good. The Road of the Dead (2006) features another sinister underworld, as the title implies. The novel shows the influence of the Western genre, though it has an English setting, Dartmoor, which is evoked as a bleak and harrowing place. Two brothers, Ruben and Cole, seek justice for their sister Rachel who has been raped and murdered. Although the brothers and their grief are depicted sympathetically, they are not without vice and this is quite a disturbing novel, pervaded by violence and sinister goings-on. In this and various novels, Brooks has a tendency to veer into the supernatural, though this is usually interwoven very carefully without detracting from the realism of the story. Lucas (discussed above) hints at mystical, otherworldly qualities in the title character, while Ruben, the narrator of The Road of the Dead, possesses some clairvoyance and supernatural powers, which works on two levels: it gives the novel an eerie tone which increases tension, while also expanding the limitations of Ruben’s first-person narrative - he can, for example, perceive others’ thoughts. The writing was, quite frankly, stunning. I was hooked from the word go. I could hear Linus' voice in my head, I felt what he did, felt the anger and fear and desperation. I was tugged in, held there, never let go, not once. Not even left go when I'd read the last word and put the book down. Some of Brooks' words.... they just stayed. Right there in my head, lingering. Where am I? Where's the blind man? Who is he? What does he want? What's he going to do to me? What am I going to do?

Other book sites

Ma non è uno young adult. Non è un romanzo tenero, non è un romanzo da poter leggere con leggerezza.