Book Report Carlos Olson
The book I chose for my book report was Deadly! No. 1 Nude, by Morris Gleitzman and Paul Jennings. It is number one in a range of five of the Deadly! series first published in 2000 by Penguin books Australia.
I chose this book because it was an easy read (thanks ms Wilson), and when I was younger I used to really like Paul Jennings so I thought it would be all right.
The series is about the adventures of two people, Amy and Sprocket.
Amy is the birthday girl but none of her birthday surprises are what she expected. First her mother has a nerves breakdown and her father is gravely suspected of having a different family with another woman, all on her special day. So what Amy decides to do is to investigate and hopefully find the truth of her deceptive father, but on this investigation she finds nothing but a baby and more theories about her father. Before she knows it a little blond six year old is shoving her and the baby into a military vehicle and speeding away out of town…
Meanwhile Sprocket has no idea how or why he is naked, in the middle of the jungle and has no memory of anything. But the only thing he knows is that some little six year olds want to capture him and take something away from him, even though he is naked and has nothing.
What I enjoyed about this book is the way they interchanged between stories which I think will eventually meet up together and become a good tale. But at the moment it isn’t a good tale.
What I didn’t like about this story was that how things happened so quickly and kept changing and how the maturity of the book kept changing. I didn’t like the pace of the story because it was too this happened then that happened with little explanation.
It was also very frustrating how the maturity level changes in the novel. At one moment it was talking about affairs, deception and biology, “All those nights you came in late and thought I was asleep and crept into my room to give me a kiss, when you ponged of someone’s perfume”, and then it is talking about little children searching through poo for something that Sprocket swallowed, “He looked at the big brown piece of poo as if it was made of gold.”
I actually wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone. It would be to mature for young people and to immature for older people and you also need to read all five novels to get anything out of the books because the first one leaves way too much open for you to put the others away.
By Carlos Olson 10 E.
3 comments:
I think you have struck on a key problem when you talk about maturity levels - and your quotes clarify this well. I think Gleitzman and Jennings, though very amusing, are aiming at a much younger audience than your good self - an audience that wants the pace and the gross factor without all the other aspects of a good narrative that a more mature audience is looking for. If humour is what you are looking for in a book, maybe you should try something like the Terry Pratchett Discworld books - very funnt but aimed at a more mature, discerning audience.
heyyyy carlos
i have to comment on peoples blogs and arent you lucky i chose you hooray
This sounds like a stupid book to me i liked pauljennings when i was younger too but this sounds like crap. maybe its so mixed up because there are two authors and maybe they both sat around and wrote ideas on little bits of paper and then drew them out of a hat and made a story i dunno.
your report was good coz it gave a good insight into the book and what you thought of it.
bieeee luv rosie
Yo Carlos
Good Book Report, when I was younger, I also loved the Paul Jennings books. You could have chosen a more challenging book though, don't you think lol? I have taken from your report that the frist Deadly book isn't a book that oozes maturity, and that all five of the books in the series are to be read/brought in order to get a firm grip on the series plot (A marketing ploy, no?), and it seems that there isn't really an ending in this first book.
Oh and also its spellt NERVOUS, not nerves!!! Just thought I'd share that one with you. :P
Love uuuu all night
Dylan
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