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Holes, by Louis Sachar Where to buy, Cost and Value I personally was given this book as a Christmas present a few years ago, but it can be found in all libraries and most book shops such as WHsmiths or Water Stones. The price on the back of my copy is £5.99 but it is a fairly old book and ... Read review

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Amazing read and great Christmas present!

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==Holes, by Louis Sachar==

===Where to buy, Cost and Value===
I personally was given this book as a Christmas present a few years ago, but it can be found in all libraries and most book shops such as WHsmiths or Water Stones. The price on the back of my copy is £5.99 but it is a fairly old book and can probably be found for a lower price. However, I think this book is definitely worth its full price, I have read it at least ...
...with it!

===Presentation, Design And Publisher===
The inside of the book has no pictures, but on the outside, is a large piece of desert land, with a hot blue sky and a green lizard with yellow spots lying across the landscape. The book is 230 pages thick, in medium sized print. The front cover was designed by Nathan Burton. On the back cover in large print, is a paragraph about the story and 3 quotes about it written by newspapers. ... more

chesestix 22.11.2009
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Dont Get Bitten By A Yellow-Spotted Lizard

Advantages: Beautifully written and crafted yarn
Disadvantages: Not a thing!

...hard, concrete-like surface. Digging holes is supposed to be a character building exercise. “If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy”, is the motto! Various dangers abound, including rattlesnakes and scorpions. But these are not the most dangerous perils, as the author graphically describes to us. “Being bitten by a scorpion or even a rattlesnake is not the worst thing ...
...Sometimes a camper will try to be bitten by a scorpion, or even a small rattlesnake. Then he will get to spend a day or two recovering in his tent, instead of having to dig a hole out on the lake. But you don't want to get bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard. That's the worst thing that can happen to you. You will die a slow and painful death. Always.” And the deadly yellow-spotted lizards like to live in the shade provided by the holes! ~ ~ ...

the_mad_cabbie 12.05.2003 · Read full review
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Dig Into Sachar's Sun-Baked Tale

Advantages: A skillful mix of styles and influences, memorable characters.
Disadvantages: The narrative reaches great heights, but can't quite keep them up.

...strong narrative pulling it along, Holes appeals across the age range. Although ostensibly a tale of mystery and endurance, Holes appeals so strongly because of the way in which it weaves a multitude of other themes and styles into the storytelling. Wild-West backstories, European folklore and a hint of black comedy pepper the narrative, adding depth and substance to the novel and giving a sense of life beyond the limits of the pages. The book also ...
...upon them. Holes is an entertaining, exceedingly well-written novel that moves along at a pace sufficient to keep most readers rapt. If there's a weakness it's that it moves away from its most effective sections - those spent digging the eponymous holes - rather sooner than one might wish. Though the novel gains in terms of progressing the plot, it takes awhile before it can again reach for the heights of this part of the book, where Sachar paints ...

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Cunning Linguistics

Advantages: Wonderful, deceptively simple writing style, bags of humour.
Disadvantages: For adults? Maybe the neat ending. For children? Absolutely none!

...having fun, Stanley is digging holes at a juvenile correction centre. Camp Green Lake isn't fun. Digging holes that are precisely five feet wide, five feet long and five feet deep isn't fun either. Up at 4.30am, the boys at Green Lake must each dig such a hole, out in the heat of the desert, before he can return to camp and rest. It's thirsty, exhausting work. And Stanley does wonder what good it does in rehabilitating Green Lake's young inmates. ...
...I guess you could call Holes a great big tall story. It's certainly wrapped like that. Part comic delivery, part mystery story, part rumination on the justice system, part larger-than-life fable, it's a fabulous little book. According to the back cover The Independent on Sunday said, "There is not one false sentence." They were quite right. Louis Sachar has an admirable writing style, full of short sentences, accurate vocabulary and a wonderfully ...

jillmurphy 08.08.2003 (13.08.2003) · Read full review
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A truly addictive read

Advantages: Funny, easy to read, addictive with a clever plot twist
Disadvantages: I've finshed redaing it!

...in Texas which is where Holes is set. ~ The Plot ~ "Being bitten by a scorpion or even a rattlesnake is not the worst thing that can happen to you. You won't die. Usually. Sometimes a camper will try to be bitten by a scorpion, or even a small rattlesnake. Then he will get to spend a day or two recovering in his tent, instead of having to dig a hole out on the lake. But you don't want to get bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard. That's the worst ...
...when they had to dig holes day in day out under the hot sun. I became particularly fond of Stanley and the fact that the story of great-grandfather is being told along side the modern day one made it more exciting. I also became attached to Zero, Stanley's best friend at the camp. When he runs away it upset me and I wanted to carry on reading to find out what happened to him. It was like slotting a jigsaw puzzle together when reading the book. You ...

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Book, Film, Tie-In ~ the Hole Caboodle.

Advantages: Very very good book
Disadvantages: Even better as a film; worse as a cash-in companion volume

...to the phenomenon that is Holes the wrong way around, in that he saw the film before he read the book. However the film was so good ~ a joyous telling of a brilliant story of circumstance, fate and odd segments of plot roped together to form a seemingly miraculous whole ~ that the book was a must~read. And although the film was never as successful as it should have been, the book was eventually everywhere ~ even in the original 100 in the BBC's best ...
...certain that any version of Holes can be very highly recommended. The film tie~in version of Holes, from Bloomsbury, features cover~art to match the cinema release, and eight pages of colour photographs from the film and film set. It bears the price £5.99 and the ISBN 0~7475~6366~7. It can be found cheaper on amazon's marketplace, but not by much, most people seem reluctant to pass this one on… * * * * * There is no sequel planned, and there can’t ...

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Advantages: Great plot, Ideal for any age
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This is a fantastic follow-up to Holes by Louis Sachar. It tells the story of Armpit and X-Ray, two friends who were at the hole-digging camp in Holes together. It is told in 3rd person, and whilst being related to Holes, you wouldn't necessarily have to read Holes to understand it; it is a very stand alone book. Upon returning to Austin, Armpit set five goals fro himself. Five small steps. # Graduate High School # Get a Job # Save his money # Avoid situations that might turn violent # And lose the nickname Armpit In this wonderful, funny and deeply satisfying novel by master storyteller Louis Sachar, Armpit finds all his steps becoming much bigger than he had anticipated. When he gets mixed up with his old friend X-Ray in a ticket scam, things look set to unravel. But this is only the beginning of Armpit's troubles, in ...

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A step in the right direction

Advantages: Well written and engaging with excellent characterisation and a good plot
Disadvantages: Over too quickly! Abrupt ending which is not altogether satisfying

'Break the ice' Meet Armpit. He?s not had the best start in life, as you can probably already guess. He?s essentially a good kid who?s had a few unlucky breaks and after getting into a fight over some spilled popcorn at a cinema he was sent to the now infamous ?juvenile correctional facility? known as Camp Green Lake. The facility was more like a slave labour camp run by a cohort of crooked guards who were using the child labour to attempt to uncover a stash of treasure which legend suggested was buried under the long dried out lake bed. The trials and adventures of this story can be found in the widely acclaimed predecessor to this book, ?Holes? (now also a major film), also by Louis Sachar. However even if you haven?t previously read Holes, it won?t take you long at all to get deeply involved in the new stage of Armpit ...

Spiderkid 24.11.2009 (25.11.2009) · Read full review
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Thirty Stories

Advantages: anarchic, original and funny
Disadvantages: could, I suppose, get old quite quickly

If you?re reading this and you?ve heard of Louis Sachar, chances are it?s because of the wonderful Holes, a multi-layered and beautiful tale of love and luck and redemption through families. But ask kids in the States, and to them Sachar is much more than that. He?s the author of two extremely popular series? of children?s books, the Marvin Redpost series and this, the Wayside School Series. I should point out that this is actually the second book in the series but, crucially, I didn?t know that until after I?d finished it. So I?d hazard a guess at saying that while each book in the series appears to lead on from the last, the characters are so well drawn and the plot (or should I say plots?) so anarchic, that each volume can probably be read as a stand-alone book. And indeed I am right about this, because since starting this review ...

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