Holes
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Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that started with his no-excellent-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-fantastic-fantastic-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys “erect character” by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment–and redemption.
Amazon.com Review
“If you take a terrible boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a excellent boy.” Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and there are no pleased campers. In place of what used to be “the largest lake in Texas” is now a dry, flat, sunburned wasteland, pocked with countless identical holes dug by boys improving their character. Stanley Yelnats, of palindromic name and ill-fated pedigree, has landed at Camp Green Lake because it seemed a better option than jail. No matter that his conviction was all a case of flawed identity, the Yelnats family tree has become accustomed to a long history of terrible luck, thanks to their “no-excellent-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-fantastic-fantastic-grandfather!” Despite his innocence, Stanley is quickly enmeshed in the Camp Green Lake routine: rising before dawn to dig a hole five feet deep and five feet in diameter; learning how to get along with the Lord of the Flies-styled pack of boys in Group D; and fearing the warden, who paints her fingernails with rattlesnake venom. But when Stanley realizes that the boys may not just be digging to erect character–that in fact the warden is seeking something point–the plot gets as thick as the irony.
It’s a weird tale, but strangely compelling and lovely too. Louis Sachar uses poker-faced understatement to make a bizarre but believable landscape–a place where Major Major Major Major of Catch-22 would feel right at home. But while there is humor and ridiculousness here, there is also a deep understanding of friendship and a searing compassion for society’s underdogs. As Stanley unknowingly starts to fulfill his destiny–the dual plots coming together to reveal that fate has huge plans in store–we can’t help but cheer for the excellent guys, and all the Yelnats everywhere. (Ages 10 and older) –Brangien Davis
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This is an OK book, but the book about Harry Potter, a leading member of our community here at Hogwarts, is much better. Buy Harry Potter! He needs to get rich! RICH! RICHRICH!
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
SEND A KID TO THE DESERT TO DIG HOLES FIVE FEET WIDE BY FIVE FEET DEEP? DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY? WHO’S GOING TO BELIEVE THIS? ALRIGHT, MAYBE AFTER HARRY POTTER WE COULD BELIEVE THIS FANTASY BUT REALLY…WHATEVER HAPPENED TO REAL BOOKS?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Ugh! This book was dreadful. I mean I loved Harry Potter books but I despise this book. It was ok, I guess but all it was about was a kid going to a camp and having to dig a hole every day.If your looking for a nice long book do not get this one it only took me 2 days to read.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Holes is about a boy who steals shoes, or is supposed to have stolen shoes, and goes to a camp and has to make holes in the ground everyday, 5 feet wide 5 feet deep.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The book was okay, but very terribly written. I to some extent loved the book as I was reading it, but afterwards I thought “Why did I read this?” For young readers, I reccomend more INTELLIGENT reading. Not books about some treasure that you KNOW the excellent guy is going to win. Watch the movie, as a replacement for, which is in theaters now. It is a lot better than the book. The book is also unrealistic. How can a name live off of peaches that have been sitting in a boat for one hundred years and only just barf? Wouldn’t it be a lot more serious? And American justice is much better than that stated. Camp Greenlake would never exist in this country. I felt that I was reading a book that happened in a foreign Communist movie. So if you’re going to waste [money] plus shipping on your book …, don’t! Waste that same amout of money for a movie ticket. I seriously say that the movie is better than the book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5