In the Lake of the Woods is Amazing

In the Lake of the Woods in my opinion was an amazing book, at first I was somewhat confused by the way the author created the story, but I soon loved the jumping from one time to another. It helped to keep me even more enthralled into the book and I could not put it down. You go from one scene where Wade is in Nam and then to the present where you wonder what has happened to Kathy, never during the book are you not wondering what has happened.

The book in general makes you think the whole entire time, from the massacre that occured in Vietnam with Wade to when Kathy has dissapeared without a trace. With the evidence and hypothoses that the author incorporates it helps create even a better sense of mystery. Also by how how he refers to John as the Sorcerer over and over again emphasizing the dark, shady past that he has hidden from everyone and that is slowly revealed is the reason for his political downfall helps to create even more wonder and mystery. With all this coming into play I could not the book down, I kept reading more and more hoping to find out exactly what happened or another clue helping to piece everything together. Instead we are just given different theories and quotes that make everything even less clear, it is obvious that the author does not want to provide exactly what happened, but instead just wants to make his audience think and come to their own conclusion on what occured in the past and what is happening in the present in the book. I myself went from thinking John was out of his mind at times to a person who just went through a horrible experience that affected his marriage and life and brought downfall to a happy couple.
The ending is perfect by how he finishes by still not giving exactly what happened, but instead letting the reader pick from many choices and allowing them to decide if they want the happy ending of escaping together or the more darker side.

In my opinion this book was perfect for the class by how the author uses a rhetoric style that most of us do not see that much by how he creates a story, but never fully reveals all that is happening. I loved how when reading it my brain was coming up with so many different theories on exactly what happened to Kathy and the other parts of the book that leave us wondering. Plus with the addition of Vietnam showing how the cruel acts that were done there can come back and haunt the soldiers and tear their lives apart years down the road helps to give a different side of Vietnam we have not seen yet. Through all this the author creates a work that is so addicting to read and I loved every minute of it.