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Summary: A great mystery and survival book
Review: Short, easy to read, what more can you want from a book but you still get the same effect as a longer book. The downside of the book though is there are many characters which make the book confusing because you don't know who they're talking about at many parts. Louis does though create a creative story with an unexpected conclusion. Though the book is confusing and unrealistic I still recomend it to anyone that wants to read a good kid mystery book.
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Summary: Perfect
Review: Simplistically written, yet extremely complex, by the end of the book, it ties all the strings distributed in the beginning. You are brought into the world just by broad details of the setting and the main character, Stanley Yelnats. It starts with a Camp Green Lake, dirty and barren, and then over a period of time, we learn the origin through flashbacks, and how the camp came to be. This book settles numorous topics: Literacy, generation gaps and changes. I strongly recommend this book.
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Summary: This book exceeds children's literature today!
Review: So much of what is written for children today is fluff. Holes is a wonderfully woven tale. It is an excellent novel to read aloud to a class with great lessons in friendship.
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Summary: You think your review is good-- try mine!!!
Review: So ya wonna read Holes huh? Well, it's an all around good book. It's a funny,easy read. You may think its a long book(with 233 pages)but it goes fast. When you're reading, you think you have uncovered a mystery but you read a little more(because you can't put it down)and you find out you're wrong!!! Once you have read this book you will see your life is sometimes the same as the characters' in the book(miserable or wonderful)! Thanks for reading! BillaBong Skatepark
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Summary: 20 Year Old Digs Holes
Review: So, I thought it was a bit corny to be reading this book, recommended to me by my 11 year old cousin when I could be doing homework reading... But after I began the first page, I couldn't put it down--literally! I read the whole thing, became utterly engrossed in the story, and fell asleep at 6am after finishing this book... finally! I have a lot of favorite kids books (Roald Dahl rocks, as does Michael Ende) and this one can go up on the shelf with my favorites. It kept my attention, and was written very well, but would also be perfect for kids! I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to escape and have an amazing, constructive adventure.
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Summary: holes,an average book
Review: so,you would like to read holes.Well,I'd say
it is an average book and any one with an imagination
could easily read this.There is alot of flash backs
though and was also a little confusing but you would get to like it.
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Summary: Sachar, get lost.
Review: Some of us have been spoiled by better books. This is the case with this one. Invisible review, critic #1
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Summary: Another great "kids" book!
Review: Sometimes the best and most memorable books are those originally with a young audience in mind. They end up being able to transcend all ages and become a great read for many adults. This is great for all children and adults who like mystery and reality in one gulp!
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Summary: "there is no lake at camp green lake"
Review: standley yelates has been wrongly accused of stealing some very important shoes. he was given a choice of prison or camp green lake. standley chooses the camp where he is forced to dig holes, supposedly to build character. he has to find why digging holes is so important. whats buried there? i love this book. its amazing the way everthing ties so perfectly together. i found the flash backs slightly confusing at first but you get used to them and they're as important to the story as standley is. sachar has a wonderfully simple writing style and i read the book in a day. i love it because you can read it and enjoy it without getting confused or needing a dictionary.
i'd say it was for any age because my mum read it after me and she liked it just as much. i will see the film but i dont have high hopes for it topping the book. how could it?
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Summary: Fun, Fast, Entertaining Read!
Review: Stanely Yelnats IV has had a run of bad luck lately. Well, actually, his whole life has been a run of bad luck, but recently his luck has been really bad. I mean, how many people get hit with some sneakers falling out of the sky and are convicted of stealing them? How was Stanley supposed to know that the sneakers belonged to a famous baseball player? Of course, no one believes him and he has the choice of going to jail or to Camp Green Lake. Stanley has always wanted to go away to camp like other kids do, so he leaps at the chance to go to Camp Green Lake. But when Stanley arrives, he discovers that there is no lake at Camp Green Lake - there are just a bunch of holes. It doesn't take Stanley long to figure out that there is more to Camp Green Lake than meets the eye. At first it is all Stanley can do to dig his 5 x 5 foot hole everyday and deal with the bad-tempered, sunflower-seed-spitting Mr. Sir, the seemingly kind-hearted Mr. "Mom" Pendanski, the rattlesnake-venom fingernail polish of the Warden, the bizarre heirarchy of the boys led by X-Ray, and a host of other characters including Zero, whom everyone believes is nothing. As Stanley spends time at Camp Green Lake, he learns more and more about himself and discovers that the camp really was successful in building his character... I loved this book. It was a fast, fun read with quirky characters and four different stories tied together into one. The main story is the one of Stanley Yelnats IV and his experiences at camp, but we also follow the story of Stanley Yelnats I who was robbed in the middle of the desert and survived by using "God's thumb", there is Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather" who got him into this mess in the first place, and the sad story of Kissin' Kate Barlow, the notorious outlaw who robbed Stanley Yelnats I. These stories are creatively woven together and Sachar adds lots of humor, sometimes dark humor, but the stories are quite funny all the same. Readers will love Sachar's characters and will be fascinated with the setting. If you are looking for something out of the norm to read that is well written and just plain fun, look no further!
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