The One Book I Would Bring On A Desert Island
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I am a life-long voracious reader. I read a book or so a week. I have been surrounded by books all my life, and I enjoy all kinds of literature. That being said.... I have never read a better book in my life, on this planet, than The Young Adult Novel. I first read it over 15 years ago, and it continues to influence and inspire my thinking. I wish they still published it by itself. I would give it as a gift to everyone I know. It is a favorite friend.
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Best Damn Thing Since Huck Finn Sailed The Atlantic
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What can I say...The Literary Jelly Donut has made living agood thing. In a day and age of kids with guns and stand offs in ruby ridge and everyday violence and horror, it is refreshing to read of a simpler way of life. A way where kids do not need guns because frankly they are smarter than the adults anyway. A world where kids are the superior ones because after all they are down with things. I have found the perfect cure for bi-polarity and for other mental ilnesses that plague humanity...a good dose of Daniel Pinkwater. Here's to you oh Mighty King. I would give him 10 stars but it was not listed. END
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proving that absurdity is the best weapon against boredom
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i have a copy of every single book by this man. he is insane and/or a genius.. develops these atrociously bizarre yet totally believable concepts and then passes them off as everyday occurrances.. i love it i love it i love it!! long live absurdity!!
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Great stuff for the kids...adults, too.
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This guy's warped, in a good way. Modern-day chickens are the degenerated race of ancient super-chickens? Even today an occasional throwback chicken is as smart as Einstein? And now, every time I look at a chicken... And Pinkwater is so utterly deadpan about all of it. You should make sure your kids get to read this stuff. It's not very often I laugh out loud reading anything.
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"Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy From Mars is a must read!
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This is a great book! On the other hand, the only thing I really liked about it was Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy From Mars, but it's worth reading the whole book for this fantastic story. Daniel Pinkwater has an amazing style of writing: as Jules Feiffer said in the foreword, he takes a small idea and expands it, and adds to it, and soon it grows into some thing else completely, which seems perfectly normal when compared to the first idea. His tab A does not fit into slot A the way it's supposed to, blah, blah, blah, blah ... just read the book.
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