WTF is this "Holes" thing?

[JazzManJim]

I know it's a book, and now a movie.

But what the hell is it all about? The trailers make it seem as if it's some sort of literary phenomenon, but (avid reader I am) had never heard of the book until the movie trailers came out. I haven't even seen it on Oprah's list and you know if it's not there, it's not worth reading!

So can anyone shed a little light on this mass-marketing froofarah?

 

[LukkyKnight]

It's about holes.

 

[Harbinger]

In the ground.

 

[Small town girl]

some kids movie...

From the bits and pieces i have gotten it is a movie about these kids at some detention center, and the guy who runs it makes them dig holes all day for some reason unknown to the kids. It is based on a book by Louis Sacher i think.

 

[LukkyKnight]

In the ground.

Big ones.

 

[JazzManJim]

Damn, and here I thought it was going to be something like "Tremors".

That would have been cool!

Thanks Small town newbie (and welcome aboard!).

And for you other two ruffians...

 

[LukkyKnight]

Did you realize that holes aren't a thing? Seriously, think about it: holes are the absence or lack of a thing. They're the nothing that's left when you take something away.

 

[PepperminTrish]

What about doughnut holes?
They're something ....tasty somethings to boot.

 

[JazzManJim]

What about doughnut holes?
They're something ....tasty somethings to boot.

Smart and sexy. Rowwwwwr!

 

[Harbinger]

Big ones.

Oh, I didn't know they were big, too.

I'll have to ask my kids and get back to you. They loved the book.

 

[LukkyKnight]

Small holes are everywhere, Harby, but almost nobody seems to notice them.

 

[PepperminTrish]

Smart and sexy. Rowwwwwr!

*laughing*
No, just hungry.

 

[Mia62]

I know it's a book, and now a movie.

But what the hell is it all about? The trailers make it seem as if it's some sort of literary phenomenon, but (avid reader I am) had never heard of the book until the movie trailers came out. I haven't even seen it on Oprah's list and you know if it's not there, it's not worth reading!

So can anyone shed a little light on this mass-marketing froofarah?

My 12 year old son and his classmates LOVE this book. He has read it three times since September alone. And about 4 times last school year.

The kids are crazy for it and we are going!!!!!!

 

[JazzManJim]

*laughing*
No, just hungry.

I'm whipping up dinner and I"ll have enough for at least two. Come on over!

 

[perks]

You know, google is really a useful tool, you might want to check it out

http://www.kidsreads.com/features/010314-holes.asp

HOLES, by Wayside School books author Louis Sachar, is a hilarious, frightening and clever novel that will shock and surprise you. It received the 1999 Newbery Medal, the Boston Globe Horn Book Award, and the 1998 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, so you know it's a winner.

Protagonist Stanley Yelnats, has really bad luck --- after being falsely accused of stealing sneakers he is sent to a boy's juvenile detention center called Camp Green Lake. First of all, this is no camp, and second of all, there is NO lake --- nothing green has ever grown there. The work is the worst --- each day it is the same thing: dig a hole five feet by five feet, the length and depth of your shovel. Do not stop until you're finished. And do not even think about running away --- there's nothing around for miles, so you can't possibly escape.

One last rule --- do not upset the warden. She does really nasty things with snake venom when she's mad. She thinks that digging holes builds character --- at least that's what she says, but Stanley and the other boys have different ideas. Something fishy is going on at Camp Green Lake, and Stanley has to find out what it is.

You can't help but get sucked into this inventive and compelling novel --- it is at once extremely serious and outrageously funny. Sachar weaves a complex story that twists and turns as it becomes clear that fate has been at work in the lives of the characters all along. Let's just hope that fate is on Stanley's side!


--- Reviewed by Dana Schwartz

 

[Harbinger]

Small holes are everywhere, Harby, but almost nobody seems to notice them.

Stop it, you're creeping me out.

I'm going to the hardware store for some spackle.


perky alert!

 

[perks]

Stop it, you're creeping me out.

I'm going to the hardware store for some spackle.

I have some at my house.

*whistling innocently*

 

[LukkyKnight]

I'm going to the hardware store for some spackle.

Get the large, contractor-sized bucket.

 

[PepperminTrish]

I'm whipping up dinner and I"ll have enough for at least two. Come on over!

Set another place then, I'm on my way!

 

[perks]

Stop it, you're creeping me out.

I'm going to the hardware store for some spackle.


perky alert!

I so saw you first, editorbuki.

 

[LukkyKnight]

I so saw you first, editorbuki.

How can you see anything through those funky purple lenses?

 

[Small town girl]

If i didn't know better

You could honestly consider the title to be for a porn. Holes....

 

[JazzManJim]

Re: If i didn't know better

You could honestly consider the title to be for a porn. Holes....

I've had the very same thought often.

I need to get out more.

 

[Harbinger]

How can you see anything through those funky purple lenses?

*psst- Lukky! I think that's her eye shadow.

 

[LukkyKnight]

doh!