1) 총평 (완독 소감 + 간단한 원서 리뷰 포함)

작가가 어린 시절을 회상하는 이야기입니다.

12세 소년 네 명이 숲에 있다는 시체를 찾으러 갑니다. 마을의 영웅이 될 줄 알고 떠났던 길이었지만 인생이 그렇듯 생각대로 되지는 않고, 말하기 무서운 비밀만 공유한 채 돌아옵니다. 마을은 아무것도 바뀐 게 없는데 그 아이들에게는 마을도 자신들도 다르게 느껴집니다...

읽으면서 가슴이 저릿해 지는 부분들이 꽤 많았습니다.

* I never had any friends later like the ones I had when I was twelve. Did you?

* Friends come in and out of your life like waiters in a restaurant.

* Talking destroys the effects of love. Love isn't soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close. No word can close those love-bites. In fact, if the wounds dry up, the words will stop too.

어릴 적 친구 생각도 하면서 흥미롭게 읽었습니다. 아직 안 읽으신 분들에게 강추! 낚시삼아 첫 챕터 그대로 옮깁니다.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that's not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It's hard and painful for you to talk about these things . . . and then people just look at you strangely. They haven't understood what you've said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it.

I was twelve, nearly thirteen, when I first saw a dead person. It happened in 1960, a long time ago . . . although sometimes it doesn't seem very long to me. Especially on the nights when I wake up from dreams in which the hail falls into his open eyes.

참, 그 유명한 Stepen King 원작에 영화(Stand by Me)로도 나왔고, 동명의 노래도 엄청 유명하죠.

음악 감상은 여기에서 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22sggSLTG_c#t=129

2) 영어 원서 100권 읽기 프로젝트 참여 목록 (지금까지 읽은 원서 목록 ↓ )-
※   완료 글을 작성한 다음에는 꼭 다른 분의 완료 글에도 응원의 댓글을 달아주세요! (의무!!!!!) 
      본 게시판은 장거리 마라톤으로 서로 동기부여 하며 밀고 나가지 않는다면 큰 의미가 없기에 그렇습니다.

1. Who Was Dr. Seuss? (Series: Who Was...?)

2. The Cat in the Hat

3. Airport (Penguin Readers Level 5)

4. Who Was Johnny Appleseed? (Series: Who Was...?)

5. The Body (Penguin Readers Level 5)