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FNORDinc, November 12, 2010 (view all comments by FNORDinc)
Have your read or watched a movie detailing the plot of the Frankenstein monster? Well, then you already know the plotline of this book.

- Replace the little girl with a different little girl.

- Replace a resurrected man and stolen brain with a large headed guy who has some mental disabilities, lots of family issues, a collection of pigs in a tunnel under his house and talks like Elmo from Sesame Street.

Really.. I had the same "that could have merit" reaction that you are having right now. I can promise you that you are better of reading something else.

Nothing against the author or the work, it's just been done before, and this didn't really bring anything new to book world.

I feel like I got dumber while reading this. It's not like reading Faulkner's 'Sound and the Fury'. There is no Benjy inside the main character, waiting to pop out in some raging stream of concio-awesomness.

It is not like reading the Haddon's 'Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime', with it's clever approach and interesting character development.

This book may be right up peoples alley, so if you wanna give it a shot, do it. However, I can firmly state that I found it very very very similar to drowning in wet cement while muppets danced around me mocking my pain.

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You want to read a good swine relevant story? Try a coming of age story that was required reading when I was in high school (likely still is). Paul Zindel's 'The Pigman'.

Push those memories, I know you can do it.. Yeah, that to the left of the drug haze, was your reading list, including the Pigman. Remember it? Yeah, it was very good.

-- FNORDinc.com

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rw3, April 23, 2008 (view all comments by rw3)
this is an extremely well written tale of friendship, loyalty and trust. the tenderness applied to the growth of the friendship between the main characters is worthy of comparison to relationships like boo radley/scout finch, quasimodo/esmerelda, and belle/beast. fitzgerald also endows jack plum with a unique colloquial dialect bringing to mind huck finn in his adventures. ultimately, the story is a coming of age tale. holly lock learns about responsibilities and how much more difficult the whitewater of life can be if you attempt to navigate them floating on lies. fitzgerald paints an honest portrait of a girl at a pivotal moment in her life. this is a must read for any fan of teen lit or any fan of fiction in general.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9781401360108

Author:

Fitzgerald, Kitty

Publisher:

Miramax Books

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Sagas

Subject:

General Fiction

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Copyright:

2006

Edition Description:

TradePB

Publication Date:

20060931

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

256

Dimensions:

8 x 5.1875 in 7.36 oz

Age Level:

Adult