Book review Number 1 – A very hungry Caterpillar.

I’ve been hearing rave reviews about this book. It apparently has everything. It’s won awards. It’s sold over 25 million copies and has been translated to many different languages. Obviously this was a book I needed to be reading. So I got myself a copy and here is my review of it, as well a a plot summary.

Well the plot goes like this. There’s this Caterpillar. And from what I gather, the imagery suggests that he is in fact, rather hungry. Whether we have to read between the lines and find the hinding meaning here is uncertain at such an early stage in the book, but I think that he might just be normally hungry, but others argue he is in fact hungry for international democracy and love among all men, using deep and complex imagery.

So anyway this caterpillar, he starts to eat things. Ice cream. Now I’ve never seen a Caterpillar eat ice cream, especially not a caterpillar called clunge (I read that’s his name). And then he kept eating more things. It was gripping. I’d turn the page and not know what to expect in the plot. Perhaps a twist? Perhaps he was all along an international spy intent on stopping Hitler from going through with his occult plan. But just when I thought I’d figured out this wonderful story, there it would go, and the clunge would go and eat something else. Quite frankly at this point I knew I was reading a classic. It has everything in terms of plot and character development. I felt I could relate on an emotional plane with the caterpillar.

Then something unbelievable happened. The caterpillar went into a cucoon and turned into a fucking Butterfly. It was alike a cliff hanger! I didn’t know what he was going to do next. Fly off and eat something? Finally stop Hitler? Prevent the cold war? Abolish apartheid. Quite frankly I am really looking forward to the sequel.

I give this book 8/10. I can see why it was on of Dubya’s favourites, it’s in my personal top 10 now as well. It’s only left down is it’s length. I wanted to see maybe a few more exotic items eaten.

~ by dantheman999 on 22 January, 2009.