Holes By Louis Sachar Review
Holes is a 1998 young adult mystery comedy novel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". In 2012 it was ranked number 6 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal.(Source:Wikipedia)
Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre (which isn't green and doesn't have a lake) he is not surprised. Every day he and the other inmates are told to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, reporting anything they find. The evil warden claims that it is character building, but this is a lie and Stanley must dig up the truth.
Review:
I have posted a review on this, kinda long ago, but what I wrote was wrong. I recently re-read this book, and it's actually my favourite book for young adults. It's wit,humour,drama,story, I mean, everything about it is near perfect! But I would first like to quote CommonSenseMedia's review of it, as it sums it up perfectly:
Sachar pulls together this complicated story with unusual characters, dark humor, inventive plotting, and some Dickensian coincidences. The harshness of the situation is mitigated by the multifaceted mystery and by the strangely lighthearted way the author tells the story. At the end the author deliberately leaves a few holes in the plot for the reader to fill in. Sachar has a bizarre imagination, and in this vivid, many-layered book he puts it to its most compelling use yet.
This book is completely unique in my opinion. When I first read it, it wasn't special and didn't really appeal to me, but now that I'm much older, I can really appreciate it.
First of all, the story is completely unique, and it takes a very imaginative mind to think up something like this. Then the humour is hilarious, as it isn't the silly-clowning around kind of humour, but dry, deep, and completely unexpected. And the themes and symbolism which are dealt with in this book are numerous: racism, crime and punishment, society, redemption, honour, religion, love, God, etc.
This book is technically for teens, but many, many adults have read it, and loved it. So if you're 11 and up, I definitely recommend you to give it a shot. Amazon UK link:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Holes-Louis-Sachar/dp/1408865238/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461874057&sr=8-1&keywords=holes
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