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If you love curious incident of the dog in night-time, this is a book for you. For an unexplainable reason, I do enjoyed reading it..
I can understand why this didn't sell under the original title of nonsense words, but I'm not at all sure that "Boom!" is better. I'm also bugged by the rocket since there aren't any rockets in the story.But the adventure is good, the families of the two boys are interestingly developed, and the mystery of what those two teachers were talking about is a clever one.Charlie and Jimbo behave realistically, which adds to the suspense and the humor.
Great book for kids
I really enjoyed this, especially because the last two books I read were only just okay. This one was nicely written, funny, smart and a very easy read. The book begins in a fairly normal household where the father is out of work, the mother is working in a well paid job, the big sister is dating an unwise choice and the young brother is not doing as well as he could at school. Things appear everyday normal until two teachers suddenly appear to be doing strange things and a series of weird event...
Mark Haddon's books tell me that they contain a different kind of cuteness and innocence with them.I've read his only one book so this notion is based on that.I'm waiting to read this one real quick.
Weird little book. Funny at times but the plot is often too ridiculous. Well(view spoiler)[Aliens (hide spoiler)]are not really my thing.
One Sentence Review: If you didn't know it was science fiction going in, the sudden switchover might shock you, but really this is just a fun mystery with some pretty goofy sci-fi elements (and copious Britishisms) in the mix.
I feel bad being hard on this book because I’m not the target audience. That being said, there are juvenile fiction books that still have kept me more than engaged (The Giver comes to mind) as an adult. So I won’t hold back...I read this book having enjoyed A Curious Incident, that I have re-read a few times. I didn’t know it was a juvenile fiction, but that didn’t stop me. I thought Haddon’s foreword was really insightful having finished the book. The book is SO slow and took me forever to read...
This book follows the unexpected(and rather odd) journey of a teenage boy Jimbo, his best friend Charlie and his 16-year-old Becky. This all starts with Becky attempting to prank her little brother,telling him that he was going to be expelled from school, and that she had heard the teachers discussing it in the staff room after school. Jimbo, stressing over the matter, turns to his best friend for advice. Charlie, being the far-fetched schemer he is, hatches a plan to place a walkie talkie in th...
This was a strange little book featuring a very likeable young boy named Jim who discovers an alien plot to re-populate the Earth entirely with science fiction fans and who must, consequently, save the world. On the whole, great fun and a quick read. Easily 4 stars.However, this is intended as a children's lit, for ages 8-12, and as such it fails. Too many adult themes (violence, smoking, etc) and too many old nerd references (seriously, what 8-year-old knows what a Vogon is?) make this a less-t...
'Boom' (2009) by Mark Haddon - lauded and famed author of the better known 'The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time'. Boom is Haddon's updated, improved and as he says ' significantly rewritten' version of his earlier novel 'Gridzbi Spudvetch' (1992).Boom is loads of face paced and silly fun - it's an adventure involving schoolboy Jimbo, his best friend Charlie, mysterious (to say the least) teachers and some very funny spiders!Clearly aimed at a younger age group and different demogra...
This one was a total hoot! What a fantastic ride! Really quick read and so entertaining at that.
I read this to my grade 6 class. They enjoyed most parts of the novel.
This is an updated edition of a book originally published in Britain in 1992 as "Gridzbi Spudvetch." My knowledge of children's literature is not that encyclopedic (not even pertaining to authors whose books I have enjoyed in the past), it just says so in the foreword. I believe I reviewed one of Haddon's picture books years ago, and I quite liked "Curious Incident..." ("Spot of Bother" is on my bedside table..but it has been for a while--too many paying review gigs) All that's beside the point....
"Boom! is a version of your old-style Something Is Very Strange About the Teachers at My School story. You know that story. They're aliens, or monsters, or she collects the teeth of children for nefarious purposes. Love that storyline. Who hasn't thought it at one time or another? Even in college, I was pretty sure a respected art history professor of mine had probably wrested herself into life from the mud at the bottom of an archaeological dig in Sicily."Full review on Pink Me: http://pinkme.t...
