Heey every1 the last book i have just read was 'The Messenger' written my Marcus Zusak. i have to say it is the first book in my life that i have evry really been interested in and wanted to get all my work out of the way so i can start readinf again. but about the book it is about a guys named Ed Kennedy. Ed it a ninteen year old taxi driver who is a little selfobsessed. he dose have eyes for a girl he grew up with named Audrie Harris. but the main idea of the story are the playing cards Ed gets in the mail. They have different things written on them, some have addreses and some have names. He has to work out who they are and has to do something for that person. it can't just be give them 20 bucks and be done it has to be something they really need, so Ed has to study this person untill he can find out what that person really needs in life.

The author has made Ed the youngest in his family (who is also the low achiever of the family). His brother and sister are at uni studying medicine and other high paying classy occupations. Their mother thinks Ed is a low achiver just like his father was and this is why she dosent show as much love to him as she dose her other kids. This has alot of meaning as the book goes on.

If Ed was not an Ed and was an Edwine (a girl) the story would have not changed much at all. Only Audrie (the girl Ed has his eyes on) would change. but that would be about it. The only other thing would be the amount sex comes into the text. this may not be such an issue if he was a she.

Cheers frm Turdz