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A review by ottiedottie
Holes by Louis Sachar
4.0
4.2
While this made me feel nostalgic for a story I'd never read before it felt fresh, biting and contemporary in its commentary. Despite the content limitations posed by its target audience, a sense of dread and foreboding was so impeccably built up. I still shudder when I think of the lizards. And despite that, I was able to let my heart melt at the friendship between these two sweet boys- a friendship, a curse and a lullaby that meandered and pulled back together through generations and generations of history.
I love that it dealt with consequence in a way that wasn't totally dependent on saccharine morality. But even so, it didn't fall into the pitfall of being too grim and depressing.
While of course I was charmed by the two of them tredging up the thumb of a mountain, eating onions, as one does, the scenes that touched me the most for some reason were those of Stanley teaching Zero how to read. I didn't particularly care too much for the Kissing Kate Barlow storyline but I am too taken with this charming story to care all that much. I wish I'd read Holes in my childhood.
While this made me feel nostalgic for a story I'd never read before it felt fresh, biting and contemporary in its commentary. Despite the content limitations posed by its target audience, a sense of dread and foreboding was so impeccably built up. I still shudder when I think of the lizards. And despite that, I was able to let my heart melt at the friendship between these two sweet boys- a friendship, a curse and a lullaby that meandered and pulled back together through generations and generations of history.
I love that it dealt with consequence in a way that wasn't totally dependent on saccharine morality. But even so, it didn't fall into the pitfall of being too grim and depressing.
While of course I was charmed by the two of them tredging up the thumb of a mountain, eating onions, as one does, the scenes that touched me the most for some reason were those of Stanley teaching Zero how to read. I didn't particularly care too much for the Kissing Kate Barlow storyline but I am too taken with this charming story to care all that much. I wish I'd read Holes in my childhood.