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Aug. 21st, 2011 11:50 amI was going to post a lovely, thoughtful post about Holes by Louis Sachar, but then I accidentally stumbled across pokemon porn and I'm just kind of sitting here staring at nothing, completely hollow and haunted.
But I'll try anyway.
Holes is about Stanley Yelnats. He's under a curse because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. It's all about the bad luck, which explains why he's been sent to Camp Green Lake for stealing shoes (he's innocent). Camp Green Lake is not a camp and it has no lake, because it dried up over a hundred years ago when the rain stopped.
This book actually has three storylines going on. Elya Yelnats and Madame Zeroni's story over a hundred years ago, Kate Barlow and Sam's story a hundred years ago, and Stanley and Zero's story in the present. All pairings/friendships are black/white.
I'm still puzzling a little over the politics. Like, I'm not sure how well exactly Zero was written and what happened with Sam because a lot of their story is really about Stanley and Kate, but I also really enjoyed both Sam and Zero as characters. I *really* like Zero. He's tough and smart and I really feel for him. His backstory is pretty brutal and had me tearing up at points.
Oh yeah, brutal. Louis Sachar wrote the Wayside School books and you can tell from the prose. But in-between the light, charming phrasing, there's murder, torture, and abuse. There are some really bad people in this story. But it's also not overwhelming? But more than once I was all 'whoa'.
This book was read on my new kobo (long story) and I discovered three things while reading it: Louis Sachar is hard to quit once you start, my freaking kobo has 'unlockable achievements', and having a store available on the device meant I now own the sequel (Small Steps) and will be finding out what happened to fellow camper Armpit after the events of the book soon.
Anyway, I seriously rec this story. But watch out for the stuff I mentioned above.
But I'll try anyway.
Holes is about Stanley Yelnats. He's under a curse because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. It's all about the bad luck, which explains why he's been sent to Camp Green Lake for stealing shoes (he's innocent). Camp Green Lake is not a camp and it has no lake, because it dried up over a hundred years ago when the rain stopped.
This book actually has three storylines going on. Elya Yelnats and Madame Zeroni's story over a hundred years ago, Kate Barlow and Sam's story a hundred years ago, and Stanley and Zero's story in the present. All pairings/friendships are black/white.
I'm still puzzling a little over the politics. Like, I'm not sure how well exactly Zero was written and what happened with Sam because a lot of their story is really about Stanley and Kate, but I also really enjoyed both Sam and Zero as characters. I *really* like Zero. He's tough and smart and I really feel for him. His backstory is pretty brutal and had me tearing up at points.
Oh yeah, brutal. Louis Sachar wrote the Wayside School books and you can tell from the prose. But in-between the light, charming phrasing, there's murder, torture, and abuse. There are some really bad people in this story. But it's also not overwhelming? But more than once I was all 'whoa'.
This book was read on my new kobo (long story) and I discovered three things while reading it: Louis Sachar is hard to quit once you start, my freaking kobo has 'unlockable achievements', and having a store available on the device meant I now own the sequel (Small Steps) and will be finding out what happened to fellow camper Armpit after the events of the book soon.
Anyway, I seriously rec this story. But watch out for the stuff I mentioned above.