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Summary: Holes by Louis Sachar
Review: I'm reviewing the book Holes by Louis Sachar. The book is sort of a mystery. My favorite part of the book is when the boys leave the camp, but then return to find the treasure. I would recommend this book to any of my friends. I like the adventure the book takes the boys on. I enjoyed reading further into the book to see what was going to happen next. I would read another book by this author again.
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Summary: Sachar Magic
Review: I'm very well-read. I've read books by Hemingway, Tolstoy, Kesey, Joyce, Tolkien, Wilde, Rowling and many, many others. And this book is the best. There are things in there that you don't get until the third or fourth time you've read it.
That may seem like a lot of times, but after you've read it once, or twice, you don't mind going back to read it again. Heck yeah!!
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Summary: I'm a 43 year old man and I loved HOLES.
Review: I've always been a voracious reader, of both non-fiction and fiction, high and low-brow. Dickens and James, Obrian and Forrester, John Irving and Elias Canetti, Edward Gorey and Theodore Geisel, Carl Hiassen and Dave Barry. HOLES is wonderful. Once my kids are done with final exams, they'll read it, too.
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Summary: Read this book!
Review: I've always enjoyed Louis Sachar books, but this has to be the best he's ever done. The ingenius plot runs through the entire book, from the first page to the last. The setting is a place called Camp Green Lake, a sort of Juvenile Hall. However, there is no lake, and green shrubbery and trees don't exist for miles around. When young Stanley Yelnats is falsley accused of stealing a pair of incredibly valuable tennis shoes, he is sent there to work alongside other delinquents. Their job every day is to dig a hole, five feet wide and five feet deep. This soon becomes part of the daily routine, along with evading snakes, scorpions, deadly yellow spotted lizards, and the camp warden who paints her fingernails with rattlesnake venom. He is soon accepted into the gang of preteen criminals. He befriends a young man nicknamed "Zero," a supposedly stupid and ignorant nobody with no parents or family. As he and Zero learn more and more about the forces behind Camp Green Lake, they discover a devious plan, based on greed and cruelty, to find a legendary treasure... This book is a mystery, a comedy, and a suspense thriller all rolled into one. Some of the writing is a little confusing, so I wouldn't recomend it to anyone younger than 10. Over all, this is a great book.
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Summary: A must read for all ages!
Review: I've been a fan of Louis Sachar for many years and knew he was bound to write a Newbery award sometime. I particularly liked the way it changed from story to story, (in other words Stanley digging a hole, and the story of Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather")for example the 1997 newbery award winner The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg. It was an inventive, suspenseful book that was realistic yet somewhat a tall-tale such as his Wayside School series. One of Sachar's longer books, a must read!
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Summary: Holes is extraordinary!
Review: I've got two words for this incredible book: exceptional, outstanding. The ending was so funny, but was heart warming. Although it ended up kind of strange, but this book is still the most best book I've ever read. I think it still is for the rest of my life, until I find somthing else or write my own newbery medal book just like Louis Sachar. Outstanding and exceptional are not the only words, but there are also excellent, fantastic, heart-trending,dazzling and tons more! My favorite part was when Stanley and Zero were trapped with the yellow-spotted, creepy lizards. There was so much suspense, I couldn't believe they could be put into words. It was like seeing a long movie, shivering because of the action and thrill. The chill went up my back spine, it was so exciting.
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Summary: Indescribably wonderful
Review: I've written many reviews, but Holes is as hard as it gets. With a seemingly ridiculous plotline that somehow makes sense, and developments so wild and out of control they're utterly perfect, and integrating two storylines that are decades apart, Sachar is brilliant and incredible. Here he does what he does best: writing well, writing for fun, and writing to make a point. Countless morals can be found even in a story that can't fall into any category (is it realistic fiction? sci-fi? fantasy?) except for excellent. (And if this review is confusing, you simply have to read the book to figure it out.)
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Summary: Excellent
Review: If you are a grown up who guiltily enjoyed Harry Potter, all the while thinking "This is great! But it's a kids' book....." maybe you should consider some of the other great writing for children out there. Take advantage of the current changing attitude towards Children's Literature and give yourself a treat. Starting with this book. "Holes" is very well written - not a jarring sentence to be found, a fantastic plot, marvelous characters and some powerfully vivid images. It's beautifully dark and bleak, but not without colour or humour. The attention to detail and great description allow you to feel and smell and taste the story and not just read it. This is children's literature of the highest quality and a rollicking good read to boot. Brilliant!
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Summary: A great book for you teens!
Review: If you are a teenager looking for a fun and exiting book, Holes is a book for you. If a bad boy is threatened by his warden to did a huge hole each day, he is going to do it, and learn to be a good boy. Stanley Yelnats isn't a bad boy, he was convicted of a crime he didn't commite, which personaly i think stinks. Stanley gets fed up with digging Holes and runs away from camp, which the conslers do not care, because it is not lickly to survive with only a canteen full of water. I know I could never survive for 10 days like Stanley did with only a canteen full of water. Well maybe a could if i had someone with me like Stanly did, it gives you an extra ammount of energy. Un like me, luck was always on Stanley and his friend Zero's side, because they found food and water to survive on, but not until they went for 5 grueling days with 2 oz of water a day. If this book teaches you anything, I hope it is to stay out of trouble!
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Summary: one "hot" book
Review: If you are adventurous, you will enjoy reading Holes. Sachar combines the experiences of friendship and suspense into an incredible book while uncovering a "big" secret in relation to the history of the novel. The Yelnats have a history of bad luck, and Stanley's conviction for a crime he didn't commit sends him to a juvenile detention center at Camp Green Lake. He reaches the camp and discovers it has no lake at all and has been dry for over 100 years. The boys in the camp have to dig holes for punishment, and the warden claims this builds character. Stanley suspects something more and takes the reader on a incredible journey. I would recommend this book to anyone, but it would particularly appeal to our reluctant, young readers who can relate to the thoughts and experiences of Stanley's journey which go from having "bad luck" to becoming our hero.
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