Making Up Megaboy

Rating:
Summary: Not Worth Reading
Review: I ,too, felt cheated by this book. I looked everywhere for it: the libraries, bookstores,and the university because, by the descriptions given from reputed literary magazines, I felt it would be good to have in my classroom library. It is a pointless book that takes the reader nowhere. Nothing is explored, nothing is given anything more than a cursory glance at a topic which mertis so much more. This reader was saddened by the hype and the time spent to both find it and read it (reading only took about 15 minutes!) Not worth the paper printed on!

Rating:
Summary: An Unpredictable Murder
Review: I think the book was quite good but I was told it was one of the best books I'd ever read but I didn't think it was that good. The book "Making Up Magaboy" is about a 13 year old boy who takes his fathers gun and goes to the local liquor store. He opens fire on a Korean man and kills him. He was a very good student and he is also a good kid. He doesn't have many friends, though. Since events like Columbine, books like this are much more realistic and believable. I would recommend this book to people who like books that are for the mind not the heart.

Rating:
Summary: trash
Review: In "Making Up Megaboy", 13 year old Robbie Jones shoots and kills an elderly Korean grocery store owner with his father's handgun. This is a disturbing book: bleak in tone, dispassionate in its objective dissection of a tragedy (made all the more unsettling due to the recent events in Jonesboro, Arkansas) and with an ambiguous ending that will leave children unsatisfied and adults bewildered. This is a very short book (62 pages) filled with eye-popping graphics on every page in addition to a variety of interesting styles of text. Which lead one to question: just who was this book written for? Younger readers will be attracted to the easy text and the compelling design of the book, but the content is so heavy and haunting - this book demands to be discussed at length with a child's parent, teacher or caregiver. Older, more accomplished readers will finish it off in ten minutes and move on. Since the text is a series of monologues, I wish there had been a greater difference in tone and characterization between the separate narrators, as in Paul Fleischman's "Seedfolks", which employs the same technique. Whatever its weaknesses, "Making Up Megaboy" is sure to cause debate and controversy.

Rating:
Summary: trash
Review: This book was trash. It had no purpose, plot, or ending. It was just a way for 2 crazy poeple to get their bizarre doodles onto paper. Enough said, words shouldn't be wasted on this book.