The Bunker Diary

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Kevin Brooks’] pacey plots . . . have made him a cult among teens. This, though, is the big one. It should be read by everyone. – Amanda Craig, The Times It doesn’t mean anything, OK? Killing God - it doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a thing, that’s all. Just an idea, something to do, something to keep me occupied. (And no, it’s not a New Year’s resolution either.) I just like doing things that keep my mind off the things I don’t want to think about (or, to be more specific, the thing I don’t want to think about).' Room meets Lord of the Flies, The Bunker Diary is award-winning, young adult writer Kevin Brooks’s pulse-pounding exploration of what happens when your worst nightmare comes true – and how will you survive? In many ways the story is more allegorical – a horrific parody of a reality TV show in which the six victims are observed through cameras and microphones and given "games" to play for reward or punishment. The lift is the only link between them and their kidnapper: each day it descends, its doors opening to reveal suspect food, questionable instructions – or a crazed dog. Linus compares himself and the other victims to lab rats or avatars in a computer game, but as the story progresses he increasingly feels that the kidnapper is playing at God. Driven to Suicide: Russell. He took his glass eye out, smashed it on the floor, and slit his wrists with one of the shards.

In May 2023, the Edinburgh University Theatre Company performed an original adaptation of the novel in Bedlam Theatre. [4] Reception [ edit ] Suddetto bunker non ha finestre, non ha porta d'uscita, ha sei stanze, sei sedie, sei di tutto. Ed ha un ascensore. A poco a poco, da questo ascensore cominciano ad arrivare altre persone, cinque in tutto, rapite dallo stesso uomo che si è sempre presentato loro in modi differenti. Some of the people in the bunker got crazy after a while. Anja for example, would stay in her room all day, hide food from the other’s and was too scared to come out. Russell got worse each day because he had a tumour growing in his brain. Faux Horrific: Linus notices that the only book that is available to read in the bunker is the Bible, which he is absolutely against reading because of his atheism. Even when he is constantly bored, he refuses to read it, saying he's not that bored.Ambiguous Situation: One day, the power to the bunker is cut off, leaving the remaining captives to slowly die. They never find out if the kidnapper died and was unable to look over the bunker, or if he just simply gave up on this game. The Bunker Diary is the story of Linus a miserable rich kid who has run away from home and ends up living on the streets. He stops to help a blind man and finds himself kidnapped and trapped in an underground bunker. When he comes to and explores his prison, Linus discovers there are six of everything. Six rooms, six plates, six notebooks, six pens. He’s alone. But one by one six people come down in the lift. All have been kidnapped. And all of them are now trapped. Linus finds cameras and microphones everywhere. They’re being watched. Now honestly speaking, what Kevin Brooks textually presents in his 2014 Carnegie Medal winning dystopian young adult novel The Bunker Diary is certainly brilliantly penned (and with main protagonist and diarist Linus' narrative voice shining brightly, authentically and brutally realistically). And as such, yes indeed, I definitely do consider The Bunker Diary as absolutely worthy of its Carnegie Medal designation and that Kevin Brooks as an author is with regard to his penmanship amazingly and spectacularly talented (and also, that for the right type of audience, that for readers from about the age of fourteen or so onwards who enjoy hopeless and hard hitting, brutally dystopian fiction with no happy endings, with nothing but depicted pain and suffering, suffering and even more suffering, The Bunker Diary will probably, will likely be a total reading fit so to speak). Kevin Brooks'] pacey plots . . . have made him a cult among teens. This, though, is the big one. It should be read by everyone. - Amanda Craig, The Times

I really enjoyed this book, it's not for younger readers as the ideas and themes running through it are not suitable. I would never have looked at this book had it not been for the Carnegie Shadowing, but I am glad I've read it. I would definitely recommend it to those who are 13+. Oh, and I loved the voice changed depending on what Linus was going through. That was pure genius on Brooks' part. Ora che ho spiegato un po' la trama, lasciatemi dire che questo libro è un capolavoro e che fa un male cane. La scrittura di Linus è schietta, diretta, descrive con chiarezza le giornate all'interno di quella trappola. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. ( June 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Jenny was really sweet. Out of all of them, she was the one who deserved it least – she was so young, so sweet, so innocent. So brave. And I loved the relationship between her and Linus – it was really sweet. Like brother and sister. And unlike all the other relationships in this book, it was pure. Y'know? Not bitter or anything. They kept one another going.

I thought he was blind. That's how he got me. I still can't believe I fell for it. I keep playing it over in my mind, hoping I'll do something different, but it always turns out the same...” En fin, queda desplazado "Padre Rico, Padre Pobre" como lo peor que lei en mi vida. Ahora el podio esta ocupado por esta... cosa, ni se como llamarla. Aberracion literal, tal vez. She called the book "much nastier" than other dystopian fictions such as The Hunger Games and Divergent, writing: "Here we have attempted rape, suicide and death by various means, all of it presided over by our anonymous captor, the 'dirty old man' upstairs who it's difficult not to imagine masturbating as he surveys the nubile young bodies (including a girl of nine)." Even though The Bunker Diary is chosen by a panel of librarians I honestly think that this will go on to win other awards chosen by readers themselves. Books such as The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and Slated by Teri Terry have won awards many times because the readers themselves are so passionate about the books that they read and this has nothing to do with the concept of the story or the content, just that they are undeniably well-written books which appeal to a diverse audience. As for Him, "The Man Upstairs. Mister Crazy. The Man With No Name," he was terrifying. Horrible. Despicable. I mean, who does that?! Seriously. What kinda person do you have to be? Off topic, I found it really interesting that Linus referred to him as "Him". Why? Because generally when we use a capital for 'Him' we're talking about God... *I start to ponder again*

I'm a Humanitarian: Being driven mad by hunger, Linus eats Jenny's dead body, which causes him to live a few days longer than expected. Ironic Echo: Linus is disgusted by Frank's defence of keeping the dog's dead body to eat it, that it's "just meat". Linus either eats or tries to eat Jenny's body after her death, reasoning to himself that it's all just meat.