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Summary: This novel contains many interesting plots within 1 another.
Review: "The Crazy Horse Electric Game" is the greatest novel I have ever read! I'm not the kind of person who enjoys to read, but this was a novel that kept me very interested until the end. The name seemed very funny to me at first, but once I started reading the novel, it kept getting better. I really admire the main character, Willie Weaver; he had a very special talent. It was baseball. After, Willie beats the rival team, Crazy Horse Electric, he later gets injured and is crippled for the rest of his life. After that it seems to him as the world is turning against him, so he runs away. He later faces many more dilemas. Please read this novel, you will not regret reading it!
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Summary: This novel contains many interesting plots within 1 another.
Review: "The Crazy Horse Electric Game" is the greatest novel I have ever read! I'm not the kind of person who enjoys to read, but this was a novel that kept me very interested until the end. The name seemed very funny to me at first, but once I started reading the novel, it kept getting better. I really admire the main character, Willie Weaver; he had a very special talent. It was baseball. After, Willie beats the rival team, Crazy Horse Electric, he later gets injured and is crippled for the rest of his life. After that it seems to him as the world is turning against him, so he runs away. He later faces many more dilemas. Please read this novel, you will not regret reading it!
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Summary: The Crazy Game of Life
Review: A review by Nate
Willy a hometown hero is about to go on the ride of his life. After a water skiing accident he found out that he couldn't play his all time favorite game baseball. He has gimp in his left leg, after months of and months of rehabilitation he can finally walk. First he gets back to school, and then he realizes that the only one thing that is really important to his family is that he plays baseball. So the only real thing that he really wants to do is run away. He runs away to go see his aunt.
When he gets to his aunts house his aunt welcomes him with open arms. He tells his story to his aunt, and in return his aunt calls and talks to his dad. Then Willy goes home. And I can't tel the rest because it would give up the best part of the story.
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Summary: Somewhat tedious
Review: After reading Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes and Stotan!, I was hooked on Chris Crutcher. Absolutley, permanently hooked on anything and everything this genius had. I got The Crazy Horse Electric Game, expecting something akin to the books mentioned above, and I was sorely disappointed. First of all, it was written in the third person, but it was present tense, so that was odd. Secondly, it took almost half the book for me to drum up a large amount of interest in this book. Thirdly, it just wasn't very good. If you're a diehard Chris Crutcher fan, read this for posterity. And heck, it does get interesting eventually. But if you've never read anything by him before, then get Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes. It is a much better read.
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Summary: A Lifetime original movie in book form.
Review: Cheesy, contrived, predictable, so on and so forth. If you don't like Lifetime original movies or cheesy "learning life lessons" tear-jerker stories, read a good book instead.
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Summary: Crazy Horse Electric Game is the best book I have read.
Review: Crazy Horse Electric Game is one of Chris Crutchers best books yet. In it Willie Nelson goes from an all star athelete to being crippled in an accident. He runs away and meets a whole new spectrum of people, pulls his life back together the best he can, and learns that he isn't the only person with a mixed up life.
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Summary: Crutcher Makes A Sellout
Review: Crutcher is a genius. He wrote a fantastic story about a phenomanol sports kidnamed Willie Weaver who can't be stopped. Except by an accident of course, an accident that leaves Willie little coordination and no sports ability. His family and girlfriend abandon him so he runs away. Finally he finds a new school. He knows this is his last chance in life. This taught me to do your best in any situation and it just might pay off. I liked it because it had good imagery and it really sucked you into Chris Crutchers world of writing.
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Summary: A good find
Review: Even though this book, "The Crazy Horse Electric Game" started out rather slow, it held my attention because I didn't want to miss any of the twists that came about in the plot, like when the main character, Willie Weaver, finds his girlfriend Jennie cheating on him. "To hell with you, Willie. I can't spend the rest of my life feeling sorry for you. To hell with you!" (p.95). Jennie was refering to Willie's boating accident which left him with brain damage. I thought it was clever how the author added the twist of Willie running away. "His ticket is for Spokane, but he'll get another one at the bus station there and head south." (p. 96). Willie decides to run away because he thinks everyone will be better off without him, and with that, he leaves home and heads for Oakland, Ca... I thought this story had a good plot, because the setting was "static." It changed to several different settings, which created new, fresh characters, and that added more flavor to the story. I also liked the frequent setting change, because it changed the mood of the story. It could go from happy, to sad, to suspensful to triumphant. Although, the only thing I didn't like about this book was the fact that it took so long for the story to pick up in the begining. Overall, I would recommend this book because it is a strong story how one can overcome total devistation and bring themselves to success again.
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Summary: His best yet
Review: I have read almost all of Chris Crutcher's books and I just want to say that this man is a genious. Just when I think I have read his best book yet I come up with another by him. I read Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes and was determined he couldn't write any better. This book made me cry. The ending was wonderful and it makes you want to get to know Willie Weaver. If he is out there somewhere, I feel for him. He is one lucky kid and even if he was cracked in the head with a water ski, he still has everything thinking right up stairs. He stuck with his dream all along. I respect that.
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Summary: Willie's Struggle
Review: In The Crazy Horse Electric Game, a seventeen-year-old boy, named Willie, is a strong, popular and athletic individual who seems to have everything in life come his way. He has never faced any hard challenges that he could not overcome with ease and greatness, until the day he gets into a skiing accident in which he loses most of his motor and athletic skills. As a result to his accident, he must begin to relearn all of his gifted talents, which seemed to come so natural and easy to him before, but are now his greatest challenge. Willie becomes angry and frustrated with his world. He suppresses himself from friends and family members, and in the process, causing great pain and heartache for everyone with whom he contacts. The memories of the loss of his younger sister haunt him even more, and he is afraid to live. He decides to leave his small town in Montana and move to Oakland.
There, with the help of his newfound friends and teachers, as well as a man who would seem to be unlikely source for assistance, Willie begins to learn how to do things for himself, becoming an independent person away from his home. Also, since he has to work extra hard just to regain abilities to talk, walk, run, and play sports again, he learns to value his life more. No longer are things in his life given to him; instead, he must work for everything and overcome obstacles he never thought possible.
I enjoyed reading this book, and I recommend it to anyone, especially young males in their early to mid-teen years. An individual around this age bracket would find it really easy to relate to this book because it teaches about overcoming obstacles and valuing life to the fullest extent. However, all readers of this book will learn that no matter who a person is in life, no matter how easy things seem to that individual, all of what he or she has can be taken away in an instant. Readers will see how hard it is to regain the skills and talents once possessed to a very gifted person, and that only through hard work and perseverance was that person able to overcome such tragedies upon which life can bestow.
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