Holes

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Summary: A bizarre yet histerically funny look at life!
Review: I read Holes because I had read many of Louis Sachar's other books and had heard that this one was also good. The first few chapters were extremely bizarre, but I still couldn't put the book down. After reading on, it became funnier and even more enjoyable. When I came to the last chapter, I didn't want the book to end! I reccommend this book for any confused teenager as I am.

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Summary: Holes is a very good book.
Review: I read Holes by Louis Sachar in my Reading and Learning skills class in school. It was probably the best book I've ever read in school. Don't judge this book by the name. It has good history tied into it. It is about a young boy named Stanley Yelnats who gets arrested for something he did not do. Given the choice between jail and Camp Green Lake, he chooses the camp. The camp ends up being in the middle of the desert where the boys have to dig one hole 5' deep and 5' across every day day for a year and a half. They say their digging to build character but they actually aren't. Read the book and find out what happens.

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Summary: Holes
Review: I read Holes by Louis Sacher and I loved it. I really loved how the book was so detailed on the characters emotions. It was so understandable what the charcaters had to go through.

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Summary: Holes (the great book)
Review: I read Holes in my 4th grade class with my awsome teacher. I thought that this book was going to be really stupid, but it turned out that it was the best book I've read in a long time. It is a unique book, but I think that you will really love it.

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Summary: a fun read!
Review: I read Holes last year and enjoyed the way the various stories meshed together. Louis Sachar wrote a serious story in a tongue-in-cheek way. This review is to show my students how to do an online book review. I think it's an excellent real-life publishing opportunity.

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Summary: Fantastic book....!
Review: I read Holes many times though I already knew the whole thing. Sachar gives pieces of information that you don't know what to do with and it starts to add up with things. It's not a mystery but I think people who enjoy reading mysteries would find this book amusing. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: What a traumatizing experience!
Review: I read Holes tonight after my fourth grader brought it home from school today. She had described a little bit of the plot this week and I was appalled by what she was describing. After reading the book myself, I am even more horrified that our school has used this book as a 'reading' book that the whole class did together. I came online to find out what others thought about the book and I kept finding words such as 'humerous' and 'comedic'. Somehow I missed the humor in the descriptions of anti-social behavior in most of the characters. In addition, the violence really bothered me. When the Warden purposefully paints her nails with snake venom and slaps and scratches Mr. Sir, and then calmly watches as he writhes in agony...when Mr. Sir, in turn, smashes a teens head up against an oatmeal pot and chokes him when the teen dares to notice his mutiliated face...when Mr. Sir pours out Stanleys water, when Stanley is significantly dehydrated, in reprisal for seeing Mr. Sir's humiliation with the Warden...the Warden stabs Armpit with a pitchfork and 3 holes and blood appear on his shirt as he falls into a hole up to 5 feet deep...Sam's murder...Kiss me Kate shooting the sheriff, and in a macabre fashion, kissing him with red lipstick freshly applied to her lips...Kate Barlow's black and blistered feet as she was forced to continue walking or she would get whacked with the shovel...the shooting of Mary Lou...Zigzag provoking and beating up Stanley...Zigzag smashing Stanley in the head with a shovel. This is, by no means, a complete inventory.

Now on to the ugly relationship dynamics...The abusive, traumatic dynamics between the adults in the book and the teens...and between the teens and each other. The message that adults are ignorant & unprotective (Stanley's parents), abandoning (Zero's Mom), or overtly abusive (Warden, Mr. Sir), or, if you dare trust them as one might want to do with Mr. Pendanski, they will just turn around and betray you as he did at the end (he was one of the most ruthless adults in the end).

There are too many other well-written books out there to settle for this kind of traumatic read. Just because a book is "well-written" does not make it a worthwhile to read. I will be going in for a parent-teacher conference tomorrow and I will sharing my perceptions of this book with the teacher.

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Summary: holes a good book!!
Review: I read holes two times and each time it got better! i would read it again in a heart beat. If you dont like to read it doesnt matter when you read this one, after you get done with this book you will enjoy readng much more!! if you wnat a good book go to the store and buy holes.

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Summary: For Ms. Tram-Holes is a Great Book
Review: I read Holes yesterday and loved it. It was such a terrific book.

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Summary: Holes Review
Review: I read Holes, by Lois Sachar. It is about a young boy named Stanley Yelnats. It all started with this no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. Stanley claims he was cursed by his grandfather's bad luck. One day, Stanley is walking down the street and sneakers fall from the sky. They weren't just plain old sneakers, they were Clyde Livingston's. He is a famous baseball player. Stanley gets caught with the sneakers and it turns out that they were going to be auctioned off. The cops thought he was stealing them. Stanley got a choice to go to Camp Green Lake or Juvinille Detention. He decides the camp. When he arrives, the air is dusty and unbeleivably hot. There is no lake, nor is it green there. He soon finds out that every day you have to dig a hole that is 5 feet by 5 feet. They say that they build character but when Stanley finds something valuble, he unleashes more than his character.
The title kind of tripped me up, I didn't think that it would be worth reading but in the end i liked how the mystery is unwinded and how the characters seem to fit in better. I like how it is narrated by another person other than Stanley and I like how the warden gets it at the end of the book.