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Summary: Cool!
Review: "Oddballs" is a very good book to read.Insted of only one booring story with few interesting chapter and the rest is borring. When you read oddballs you can have more variety of story, and every chapter would be as interesting as other. You can hardly put the book down because it's so fun. Sometimes when you were sitting alone you can laugh and smile. I would really recomemd this book to anyone who like humor book.
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Summary: Definitely not normal
Review: "Oddballs" is an episodic work: each chapter has its own story. While the book is about the Sleator family as a whole, William himself takes the back seat to his brothers and sisters and even to school friends (or non-friends). Raised by unconventional parents, the Sleator children are distinct individuals, and proud of it; they don't want to be cool or part of the in crowd. Not that the in crowd wanted them, except for Vicky, William's attractive sister, who refused her chance in favour of oddballdom. The Sleators call beautiful people "pituh" and give exaggerated imitations of them on buses by criticising their friend (who's part of the whole scheme). --This backfires. In a chapter reminiscent of "How NOT to have an aunt in one hard lesson" from M. L'Engle's "Meet the Austins," the mother of a school friend of William's comes over and sees the family and the house at first hand. She leaves in horror and William is down one friend. And then, of course, there's the time Tycho is hypnotized. There are parts of the book where, for several consecutive pages, there is nothing to cause the reader to laugh out loud. But that's unusual. While he makes fun of his family, however, it's obvious that Sleator loves them very much. After reading "Oddballs," the dedication to his deceased mother on the title page of "The Beasties" comes as an unpleasant surprise, a cause for mild but genuine sorrow. Sleator asks his family to forgive him for writing the book, but that's not necessary. They should be glad and amused, along with everyone else who reads it.
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Summary: Laugh-out-loud material!
Review: After only one page, I was laughing as loud as I could. Not all of the book is this funny, in fact some of it is downright disturbing, but it is one of the most fun reads I've had. Like all of Sleator's books, it is quick and easy. Just a good experience
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Summary: Cool!
Review: ARRRRGGGHHH! I am so mad at those other reviewers that are bringing Sleator's star average down with their moronic reviews. Hey you guys: "THIS IS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL OK, IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SCIENCE FICTION. THIS IS FROM HIS LIFE."I can't believe people don't appreciate the first only look we have into the life of the Literary God known as William Sleator. Utterly Hilarious I laughed so hard when I read the Hypnotysm chapter. And its not bad at all that the chapter skip around and the characters are different ages because for one it just doesn't negativly effect the book and B: these are real people. It was so cool to learn about Tycho Sleator, the Authors brother and a Physicist today. If you are a true Sleator fan, then you will love this look into the amazing background of this man. Please enjoy!
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Summary: INSIDE THE LIFE OF A LITERARY GOD!!!
Review: ARRRRGGGHHH! I am so mad at those other reviewers that are bringing Sleator's star average down with their moronic reviews. Hey you guys: "THIS IS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL OK, IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SCIENCE FICTION. THIS IS FROM HIS LIFE." I can't believe people don't appreciate the first only look we have into the life of the Literary God known as William Sleator. Utterly Hilarious I laughed so hard when I read the Hypnotysm chapter. And its not bad at all that the chapter skip around and the characters are different ages because for one it just doesn't negativly effect the book and B: these are real people. It was so cool to learn about Tycho Sleator, the Authors brother and a Physicist today. If you are a true Sleator fan, then you will love this look into the amazing background of this man. Please enjoy!
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Summary: INSIDE THE LIFE OF A LITERARY GOD!!!
Review: ARRRRGGGHHH! I am so mad at those other reviewers that are bringing Sleator's star average down with their moronic reviews. Hey you guys: "THIS IS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL OK, IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SCIENCE FICTION. THIS IS FROM HIS LIFE." I can't believe people don't appreciate the first only look we have into the life of the Literary God known as William Sleator. Utterly Hilarious I laughed so hard when I read the Hypnotysm chapter. And its not bad at all that the chapter skip around and the characters are different ages because for one it just doesn't negativly effect the book and B: these are real people. It was so cool to learn about Tycho Sleator, the Authors brother and a Physicist today. If you are a true Sleator fan, then you will love this look into the amazing background of this man. Please enjoy!
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Summary: Oddballs
Review: I liked the book Oddballs for the most part. It was funny and had good descriptive words. The plot was kind of confusing. The ending had me shocked for a few minutes. I liked Oddballs because a part in the book made me crackup. It was when Jack hypnotizedTycho and said, ''Your mouth is dry, but your hands are tied to your side by a long rope. What do you do? Tycho gets up from the and runs to the bathroom. They see him drinking out of the toilet. The settings include a car on car trips, at Bills house, and at parties. Oddballs had a lot of different settings and thats good in a book. I think this because if Oddballs had one setting it would be boring, but since the book has more than one setting it flowed better. Even though the book was good it was hard to understand. At times the plot and setting were confusing. For example, when the family was coming home from a car trip. I would rate this book a 3 out of 5. The ending was weird, but it had me guessing and I thought wrong.The author could have told more about his family. For example, he could have told us how old the kids were. Also, I was having trouble switching from scene to scene. I would recommend Oddballs to anyone who is looking for a short book to read, and who likes science fiction. This story could have really happend. This book is for kids 10 and older because the plot is confusing for little kids. Some of the words are hard but most of them are easy. So, go to the library and check out Oddballs.
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Summary: Oddballs
Review: I read the book Oddballs by William sleator. I think Sleator is a wonderful writer, and I absolutely loved this book. it was interesting to learn what his life was like in the past, and it amazing to see how he came all the way from being a total oddball to becoming a famous author. Sleator used very good description and a lot of details in this book. That was another reason why I liked it so much. It was easy to get a clear, vivid picture in your mind of what things looked like. I also thought it was a great idea for him to write a book about his life in the past. I thought pretty much all of the chapters in the book were very exciting as well as amusing. I kept wanting to read on! There were some bad points of the book as well as all of the good ones. I thought that some points of the book got a little boring. Some didn't have enough description, and I thought that maybe one of the chapters had a little bit too much description. Other than that, I thought the book was great! I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a laugh once in a while. It was a great book, and I think that most peoople would enjoy reading it!
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Summary: Oddballs
Review: I read the book Oddballs. I think it was a good book. I liked how William Sleator was so specific in discribing the characters in each chapter. I also liked how he used some stories of what happened in his childhood. I think that Oddballs was a very descripteve book. The stories were exciting, and were sometimes funny. I like how Sleator described every setting, in all the chapters. One of the things that I disliked about the book was how each chapter was a different story, and the characters were different ages in all the chapters. So the chapters never contnued, and it kind of left you hanging. In all the chapters the characters would be different ages. So in the chapter Dads Cool, Vicky was 6 at one point of the chapter, and in the same chapter she would be 16.There would also be different settings. I recomend the book Oddballs because it has some interesting stories, and some amazing adventures. You will learn more about Sleator's life. Each chapter is filled with new exciting adventures.
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Summary: Oddballs
Review: I read the book Oddballs. I think it was a good book. I liked how William Sleator was so specific in discribing the characters in each chapter. I also liked how he used some stories of what happened in his childhood. I think that Oddballs was a very descripteve book. The stories were exciting, and were sometimes funny. I like how Sleator described every setting, in all the chapters. One of the things that I disliked about the book was how each chapter was a different story, and the characters were different ages in all the chapters. So the chapters never contnued, and it kind of left you hanging. In all the chapters the characters would be different ages. So in the chapter Dads Cool, Vicky was 6 at one point of the chapter, and in the same chapter she would be 16.There would also be different settings. I recomend the book Oddballs because it has some interesting stories, and some amazing adventures. You will learn more about Sleator's life. Each chapter is filled with new exciting adventures.
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