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I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

**** This is probably one of the most interesting books that I have ever read. The story is about Ed Kennedy, who starts mysteriously receiving playing cards with messages on them after he stops a bank robber. Each of these cards has three messages that code for three people that he needs to help. Ed must discover how to help the three people on each card. Ed starts to develop special bonds with each of the people that he helps. Along the way, he meets strangers who give him hints about how to help the people on the cards. While receiving these cards Ed tries to discover who could be sending him these cards. Ed also tries to figure out why he has been chosen help the people on each card. I found this book to be extremely interesting, and hard to put down. I really liked the mystery featured in this book. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes mysteries.

Anonymous said...

****This was an amazing book! Very down to earth and simple. The whole storyline was set up in a way that it could happen to anyone. Real-life situations that make the book seem true. It is a little long, but hardly noticeable due to the reader being unable to put it down. The mystery surrounding the cards pulls you in and makes you want more. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has the time to read this in one sitting.

Anonymous said...

**** This was a very good book. Ed Kennedy finds himself as a person delivering messages to poeple. He finds himself doing this and he doesnt know why. But then he figures it out at the end and he finds that he found himself as a person a got what he really wanted. The girl he is absolutely in love with. I like the book because it seems like he did it just because and he reallyu didn't have to but he cant quit for some reason helping all theese people but he likes to help people. But what i didn't like was that the guy never told Ed his name and that bothered me. But otherwise it was a really good book with some really real life situations. Which we may or may not face everyday. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who thinks they cant do anything right in life.

Jordan O said...

I Am The Messenger. By Markus Zusak ****
I Am the Messenger is an excellent story about a slacker named Ed, who gets mysterious playing cards in the mail in which he is asked to help different people. Some messages make him feel accomplished and others make him cringe. Markus Zusak makes his story interesting and suspenseful as Ed Kennedy tries to figure out who is giving him these assignments and why. He receives the ace of each suit where he has to protect the diamonds, survive the clubs, dig deep through the spades, and feel the hearts. The story also has a lot of life messages as Ed transforms from a self-absorbed nobody into a person that many people would admire. I would highly recommend this book.

Chelsea K said...

****. I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak was a very good book. This book is about a guy named Ed, who has done nothing for himself. He doesn’t go to school, he lives in a dump section of town, and he is a taxi driver. All of this changes when he gets caught up in a bank robbery. When he finds a way to stop the man from robbing the bank, he becomes a local hero. This is when he starts to get the cards in the mail. I thought that this was a very good book because of all of the individual stories that were a part of it. I thought it was kind of funny that they all use words that we would never use like ‘mate’. Overall, I really liked this book and I would recommend everyone to read it. I think that it has a very good theme.

Kyle J said...

**** Even though I still have a couple of pages to read, I think that I Am the Messenger was a really good book. How would you like to be pretty much a "nobody" and then one day you save the day during a bank robbery and then you become a hero? That's what happened to Ed Kennedy in I Am The Messenger, and after all of that, he started getting cards in the mail syaing things like like random street addresses and random names. His job is to do something for everyone of those mysterious things on the card. For each one he has to find out what it is he has to do, or his life will be threatened according to two masked men that break into his house one night. I like the book because I still haven't figured out who the cards are coming from and what Ed's purpose in the book is. It's keeping me wanting to read, and that's why I think everyone should read it. I liked it a lot, at least so far, and I can't wait to see what will happen to Ed at the end.

Brian P. said...

****I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak. I Am The Messenger is such an interesting story. Ed Kennedy is just your average slacker with not much going for him. He lives a simple life and gets by as a taxi cab driver. His life changes when he gets the first card in the mail, he doesn't know why he was chosen or who's behind it, all he knows is that the fate of the people on the card rests only in his hands. Overall this book is a great read, somewhat long, but nevertheless a great read. I would recommend this book to those who enjoy mysteries and those who look for that one type of book that can pull them right in.

Kyle C said...

**** I am the Messenger is a very good book. It is about an average guy named Ed who has nothing going for him but his job as a cab driver. He lives with his dog, The Doorman, who he talks to like he is an actual person. Ed is used to just playing cards frequently with his friends until he begins receiving Aces in the mail. Each card gives him a clue of something that he needs to do. He doesn’t know why he is the one receiving these cards and he also doesn’t know who is giving him all the cards. Throughout the book Ed completes his tasks that helps make him a better person as well as make others better people too. I would recommend this book to pretty much anybody, because it is such a good book.

Dereck M said...

***** I am the messenger is the best book I have ever read. The way it was written made the book really good. It’s about a lowlife Ed who thinks he has no meaning in his life. He is an underage cab driver in suburban Australia and he is madly in love with one of his best friends Audrey. He thinks his mom hates him and wonders about his life. Then one day his life changes forever. He receives his first card in the mail and becomes the messenger. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone.

Dylan D. said...

***** I am the Messenger is a simple life turned upside down kind of book. Ed Kennedy is a 19 year old cab driver in Sydney, Australia. His mom hates him for reasons he never knew and his life has about hit its peak. After stopping a bank robbery, Ed finds himself the puppet of an unknown Ventriloquist. He's given only addresses and names as he plays a card game for his life. With the Doorman and interesting friends at his side, Ed digs deep and works to find the truth behind the mysterty of his new destiny. Two thumbs up for the book that makes you think that anyone from anywhere can make a difference in the world.

Cody A. said...

**. The book I AM THE MESSENGER by Markus Zusak was okay. If you are interested in mystery solving books you may be interested in this one. This book stretches the mind to try and imagine the next move needed to be made. It is about a tax cab driver named Ed Kennedy who turned his life around after getting involved in stopping a bank robbery. After the robbery he began receiving cards in the mail that has addresses on them and had to decode them to figure out exactly what he had to do. The cards he receives are the aces.

Anthony O said...

*** The main character, Ed Kennedy, is a taxi cab driver that stopped a robber. He then got a card in the mail that had addresses on them. He has to solve the problems on the cards and help the people out. It was a good book because he gets put in weird situations and always finds away to overcome the problems he is faced with.