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Summary: A Must-Read For Every Teenager
Review: This remarkable novel deals with two teenagers with unhappy home lives who befriend a very lonely old man. Prior to meeting John and Lorraine, Mr. Pignati's time was occupied collecting glass and ceramic pigs and visiting Bobo, a baboon at the zoo. Once the three become friends, the kids teach Mr. Pignati how to be young again--how to live--while he teaches them the value of friendship, love, and life. Plenty of lessons to be learned here, but the book is never boring or preachy. And it does not have a happy ending as you might expect... Nevertheless, this funny, heartbreaking novel should be on every teenagers reading list, either for school or just for pleasure. Enjoy!
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Summary: A beautifully written novel for any young adult with a heart
Review: Paul Zindel beautifully comunicates the moving gift of life in this novel, "The Pigman." From the way he knits the teenage anatomy into his characters lives and personalities, to the way he shows problems in a realistic aspect, the book just shows the beauty and complications of life as an everyday person. No one in this novel has the same problems, yet they all can come together and fill in the holes in eachother's lives. In this novel John Conlan and his best girl friend Lorraine Jensen decide to make some phone pranks. They leaf through the phone book and come up with a random number - which just happens to be Angelo Pignati's (the Pigman). They pose as members of a charity and convince the yearning and lonely Mr.Pignati to donate ten dollars to their make believe charity. They follow through with the prank and end up being swept up into a wonderful and full of life friendship with Mr.Pignati. It is a must read - from the bottom of my heart I truly enjoyed this book. It may not have you on the edge of your seat racing to the next page 24/7, but it is a touching and amazingly written novel. Paul Zindel weaves the sorrows and joys of a strange friendship into the prolonged woes of life. This story proves that nothing lasts for ever, and urges people to live for the now. Enjoy the people you love, be tolerant of those you don't, and make the most of every moment.
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Summary: great book
Review: This wuz a book my teacher chose for my class to read. I honestly thought it was goin to be another boring book she assigns us. But then i got so into the book i couldn`t put it down and i finished it in about an hour. This story shares happiness, sadness and shows the other side of people. Books like this show the really bad side of kids, but shows they can be good and compassionate if someone brings it out of them. I hope you people enjoy this book as much as i did
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Summary: Worth reading
Review: ... I was a little surprised to find a story about an old man and a couple teenagers who keep him young, at the same time helping them to mature. The charicters are very real and not at all to wonderful to be real, like in other books. I found that the story was quite emotional, and at some points I had trouble with it. The book leads to an inevitable conclusion, but it's still just as emotional.
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Summary: Could Paul Zindel make this book any worse?
Review: I believe this is the worst book I have ever read. I am in 7th grade now, and this book was one of my assigned summer reading books. It is very childish and does not deserve the reading level, "young adult." This book was for babies. There was no descriptive detail that tugged on the reader's mind and pulled them into the story. It took me 1 hour to read this book. Pathetic.
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Summary: Pigman a great book
Review: I found the Pigman to be a very emotional story that was great yet very depressing. Angelo Pignati (reffered to as the pigman because he collects glass pigs) is getting old and living a lonely life. His wife died and his only thing that keeps him from spiralling into depression is a cranky baboon, Bobo. Then he meets John and Lorraine, who at first make a prank call to him, but hearing the loneliness in his voice decide to meet him, saying they are charity workers. The three soon become close friends, and create a world of their own. Mr. Pignati becomes childlike because he is so happy to have friends. Yet John and Lorraine soon destroy their world, not realizing what they have gotten themselves into. They are left with their own realities and realize that their life would be what they made of it. This book was very good, but very emotional. I recommend it to anyone!
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Summary: A Wonderful, Amazing story.
Review: I absolutely love this book. I read it in 8th grade for required reading, but I loved it so much, I went out and bought it. I don't know how many times I have read it. And I just finished reading it again! And I know I will still continue to read it.I don't know how to describe how great this book is. At times, it can be rather depressing, and many may feel that it has a bad ending. I thought so too, at first. But then I read the sequal "The Pigman's Legacy." Other times, I actually burst out laughing. I remember I did that in class a few times and was given a strange look by my class mates. My favorite part is when John and Lorraine are acting in the costumes and he grabs her and kisses her. Yes, I am a romantic. lol. The Pigman is a marvelous story with many fun adventures.
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Summary: The pigman.
Review: The Pigman was one of the most powerful books I have ever read. It is about love and friendship and guilt. A guilt that comes from betraying someone you loved, an old man who collects pigs, who puts all the trust he has in you. Betraying a man who denys the fact his wife died because it hurts too much. Betraying a man who talked to a baboon because until you came along he had no friends.But the guilt comes in the end. First you have the love and friendship. Two teenagers, a boy and a girl, as different as possible, form an unlikley friendship with the pigman. The pigman is an old lonley man who collects pigs and who's wife died years ago - but he still claims she went to California on vacation. The girl is a conservative (nerdy)young woman who's mother warns her from boys and the dangers of basically everything. The boy is a cool dude who smokes and drinks and yet is very nice and sensitive if you get to know him. Good luck getting to know him.
Together they play, talk and enjoy each others strange company.
And then the guilt comes in.
This book was one of the best I have ever read. It compares with the best of them.
Read it.
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Summary: A great summer reading book, material's getting out-of-date
Review: I read this book for my summer reading and it was good, but I am sorry to admit that there are many other books to recommend that are happier and better than this one.
The reader should realize that this book was written in 1968 and the material is very out-of-date for example department stores don't sell real live animals, nobody can make a prank phone call secretly anymore, and certainly you can't put a lock on a telephone anymore(there are few dial phones anymore).
This book also tells me that Angelo is an Italian name(Pignati is depicted as an Italian last name).
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Summary: The Pigman
Review: fiction This book is about two friends. They get to know Mr Pignati by playing a game to see how long they could keep a stranger talking on the phone. When they called Mr. Pignati they became good friends. On the phone he invited them to his house. In this book many amazing, yet mysterious things happaned, in result terrible things could happan. I really didn't like this book book because I found it boring just to listen to everyone's personal life. I wouldnt recommend it. I'm not really into the party and band crashing books. I think its really, kind of boring. The favorite part of the book that I read was the part when Mr. Pignati dies with his second heart attack. His heart attach happened because of all the stress that was put on him when the partiers messed up his home.
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