A Day No Pigs Would Die

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Summary: A Day No Pigs Would Die
Review: This was a great book and I would highly recommend it to both the young and old. As you go though the years with Robert Peck and how his life was like growing up in Vermont you come across many of life's little lessons. Rob has some good times, but also has to get through some hard times and being the man of the house has some big responsibilites.

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Summary: a day no pigs would die
Review: How could anyone give this book to a child? A mating scene which reads like brutal rape after which the farmer comments, "next time she'll welcome the big boy". After not producing a litter the pigs life is considered worthlessand the child's treasured pet is slaughtered by the father, the boy is forced to participate and is then told he is a man for killing. My son was sickened by this book, I would like to warn all parents.

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Summary: a little book, but by no means little!
Review: Although it's a little book, it's by no means little. The tale it tells of a boy, his father, and a pig says just about everything worth saying. It struck me that this book had been percolating in the author's mind for around five decades, and clearly burst out when ripe.

This rather odd title got me curious, and I was hooked by page one! So many marvelous and subtle juxtapositions. The writing is beautiful, interweaving great modern prose with dialogue in odd but readable post-World War One Vermont farmer and Shaker dialects. And the boy is a juxtaposition himself, on the cusp of adolescent and on the cusp of leaving behind obsolete Shaker ways. And his family, conservative and Shaker and backwoods and prudish yet human and emotionally connected and wise and utterly blunt about the facts of life, all at the same time!

I love a book in which an author can conjure a time and a place and people long since past, and translate their ways into a language and story we in our fast modern world can easily relate to. You win with this book! I loved it!

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Summary: A Day No Reviews Would Die
Review: A Day A No Pigs Would Die is a book every kid who has hit the age of understanding life and how it works. It explains how a boy grows up in the world of misunderstanding, but he understands how life can be taken and given to someone who can understand. Rob is like every kid growing up now being picked on at school growing up understanding that one day in life we have to give up the things we love. Every kid should read this book to understand that we too have a pig named Pinky and a father named Haven there who love us and are wiling to give up everything they have to say that they too love us

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Summary: I hated the book!
Review: I hated the book because it was so slow. It had some details I didn't really need to read. I thought it was too bloody, for example when they killed hussy and when they killed Pinky, it said, "the ground beneath our feet was spotted with hot pig blood. I think that some of the conversations didn't need to be included. Rob was talking to his father about a fence that is one example of a conversation. I also think it was too descriptive. I really hated this book.

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Summary: This a boring book
Review: This is by far the worst book I have ever read. It is about a 13-year old boy who saves a cow and gets a piglet in return. The best part of the book is when Rob goes to Rutland Fair and struggles to see a pervert. This part of the book gives the story line good humor and laughs. I thought it needed more action, or comedy to make it better. This book might be good for Elementary Schools but not for Middle School students who are more mature than this.
I do not recommend this to mature kids who enjoy humor and action.

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Summary: Not to thrilling
Review: A Day No Pigs Would Die, is a satisfactory book for teens. The author, Robert Newton Peck, is the narrarator and the main character of this book. A Day No Pigs Would Die, focuses on Robert becoming a man, also known as "coming of age". Between ages twelve and thirteen Robert is taught many things about becoming a man. For instance, his father teaches him how to yoke up their ox. There are some amusing parts and unpleasant parts in this book. For example, it is amusing when Robert was at Rutland fair and was searching for perverts, but it is disgusting when the author describes Rob's pig, Pinky, trying to have a heat with a hog. Although this book had inappropriate parts, it was easy to relate to. Rob experiences several things that teens experience today too. For instance, Rob has trouble at school, he states, "During recess, he'd pointed at my clothes and made sport of them." Also this book isn't to thrilling, and it drags on. The climax of this whole entire book is when Rob takes a trip to Rutland fair. Lastly, this book has a variety of moods. An example of a mood is angry. This happens when Rob comes home with a D in English and his mom thinks it is an A, but his Aunt Matty finds out and has to tutor him. A Day No Pigs Would Die is an inappropriate book, that I would only recommend reading in your spare time.

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Summary: a day no pigs would die
Review: I would rate A Day No Pigs Would Die a three for many reasons. This book is about a boy named Robert Peck and it takes place when he is 12 to 13 years old. He lives on a farm with his papa, mother, and aunt. He gets a pig for helping his neighbor and they have a lot of great times through the year. There is some suspense in this book because you never know what is going to happen next because the mode changes very often. There are also many details so you know exactly what is going on. Like when Rob went to the Rutland fair, it told about everything that happened there including how he went around the ring with Bib and Bob (his neighbor's calves). This book had many times when they change the mode. Sometimes it is a happy mode and everyone is happy, there are other times when it is very sad like when he had to kill an animal (I don't want to give it away) but he knew he had to. "That's what being a man is all about, boy. It's just doing what's got to be done." Rob's papa stated. This book is pretty good, I do not recommend to people who like action or mystery. If you love slow, mode changing books then you will love A Day No Pigs Would Die.

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Summary: Waste Of Paper and Time
Review: I think this book is a very bad book. It in no way what so ever interests me. Some of the scenes are down right disgusting. I don't recommend this, in fact I hope no body else reads this book for they're own sake. This book has stomach-turning scenes and is no age groups should read this. Some of these gruesome scenes are when Samson is trying to breed Pinky. It goes into great detail saying "the blood ran down her leg" and other phrases you may never want to hear. The book was very slow-paced and what I have learned from this book I will never use in my entire lifetime. The book was slow paced because it never really got interesting and it wasn't something you always felt like reading and hated when it ended. I hope this review has helped you in choosing to read this book or not.

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Summary: I used it to prop open my door
Review: This was a horrible book. The book was slow and it was disgusting. An example of this was when peck slaughtered Pinkey, and how rob kissed his bloody hand. Or when they described Hussey after she came out of the barrel. There is no information in the book that I will ever use in my life. The family in the book was "shakers" so why did they have children? That's really dumb. They were just a bunch of slack-jaws. The dialogue was odd and it was hard to understand. It was hard tolerate the book and its bad language after the first chapters. It was defenatly not a page-turner. And in what society do you save a cow and get a pig in return?