Holes
The book and the movie!
Gracey's Thoughts
Let me start with some differences between the book and the movie. In the book, Stanley, the main character, has weight problems. In the movie he doesn't. Well, I read the book and saw the movie a couple months ago so that was the only difference I could find. Now there were a lot of similarities, But there was on that was really specific. Stanley was walking home and this kid was on a bridge and he threw some famous basketball player's sneakers on his head so Stanley ends up going to the "detention camp."
Arielle's Thoughts
This is one of my all-time favorite books! I was so excited when Gracey decided to review it! I've been a fan of Louis Sachar for as long as I could remember. I wanted to go to Wayside School where everyone was a little off their rocker, cows wandered the hallways, teachers were totally wild, and the elevator only went up! Holes is a completely different kind of book: the setting has an air of magic, Stanley feel completely real and yet his situation is completely fantastical! If you've never looked at an onion and thought, "I could totally take a bite out of that right now!" You've got to read this book! The eating-onion scene has stuck with me for years...I remember feeling convinced by Sachar's writing that an onion could really be delicious to eat like just like an apple. That's powerful writing!
Of course, the movie is excellent also! Check out this trailer!
Image from goodreads.com and video from youtube.com
Sachar, Louis. Holes. New York: Scholastic, 1998. Print. ISBN: 9780439244190
