The Soloist Chapters 1-6 !

The book The Soloist holds mixed opinions from me. There are some points of the story that are able to hold, or catch, my interest, but then there are times where I find the book to be boring. Overall I like the idea of the book; letting the readers see the relationship that was created between journalist, Steve Lopez and street musician, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers.

One thing about The Soloist that I like is the way Lopez tells his story of meeting and helping Nathaniel. He talks in first person, and writes in a style that isn’t necessarily blunt, but straight forward. This helps to make reading the story easier on the reader. Lopez also, in my opinion, is honest. He describes how he only first asked Nathaniel a bunch of questions in order to get a newspaper article. Once he found out Nathaniel’s story (which would be Nathaniel, the talented musician, being kicked out of Julliard for the mental disease of schizophrenia), he realized just how much he wanted to help the distraught man. And although Nathaniel is doing alright by himself on the street, Lopez feels as if he could be living a whole lot easier than the way he is.

I find the book to be boring when it drags on. I’m the type of person who wants to know all the facts and details upfront, rather than wait and find them out in due time. When you have to wait to find out information about Nathaniel, or wait to see just how the situation is going to play out, that starts to become boring. I’d rather have the author just tell the story and get to the ending, or point. Since Lopez is a journalist, I feel he uses some of that style of writing to describe what is happening. I find newspaper articles boring, which is probably why some parts of the story seem dragged on to me.

• I would like to have my grammar and sentence structure checked.
• Just want to know if you agree or disagree.