The Camel Club--Dotti Root (Academic Foundations)

The best book I have ever read was the last one. It was by David Baldacci: The Camel Club. My criteria for reading any book of fiction: it must have a “hook” and be free of grammatical errors. I am not a writer nor am I innocent of committing grammatical errors. However, as a reader I allow no more than two. I feel that I have paid “good money” to be properly entertained. The writer and his/her editor should be considerate enough to catch any and all errors before a book is published.

A good “hook” catches my imagination in such a way as to create a picture of what is happening or what is to come. The opening paragraph was a geographic location: Virginia. The writer’s hook is created within this very first paragraph. The hook was the Camel Club, a group of misfit men. Each had something "wrong" physically, emotionally, mentally. Yet, together they made one unit. This series of books from Baldacci works because no matter what can be a handicap, there is a "happy ending.”