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Márcio Lopes _arcio3_ — I really loved the first series, Children of the Promise. This is a sequel series. I did learn a lot more about the Vietnam war and the Civil Rights movement. Its interesting how many things I know nothing about in United States history.

Laura Rodriguez laurarleon — A fascinating attempt at some kind of authobiography that also serves as a rant at everything from America's predilection for oil and the Bush administration. Vonnegut retains his deliciously dark and decidely absurdist view of the world. At some portions of the book I did feel as if I was being preached at, but where Vonnegut does the most damage by far is by presenting his objects of scorn as overblown balloons and proceeding to poke numerous little holes in them. One thing that particularly struck me was Vonnegut's hypothesis as to why the divorce rate was increasing. According to him it was due to the death of the extended family. After all, what women wanted was to talk thus a corresponding need for more people to talk to. Men on the otherhand just want to be understood and have buddies. With extended families, you have more people to talk to and more buddies. Nowadays, when you marry someone all your get is that someone, hardly fulfill your gender-inclined existential needs.

Joseph Augustine josephthuruthel — Hearing about this book, I would have expected it to be fairly pathetic (sorry, Sachar). But then I read a couple reviews that said it was actually quite good, so I decided to read it anyway. And then I read it and ended up thinking it was somewhere in between. Not amazing, but not the awful piece of shameless coasting-on-the-awesomeness-of-the-previous-book book that I originally expected. I think, really, the highlight of the book is something that Sachar does really well in most of his stuff: Telling readers, without being preachy, that they control their destinies. (view spoiler) The point he makes is that you can't let other people tell you what your choices are; you have to think for yourself. I especially like this because, of course, Stanley had very little control over a lot of the physical events in his life. But he did have control over how he looked at and dealt with them. Anyway, based solely on that element of the book and a couple other good "morals to the story" (again, without feeling annoyingly preachy), I would have rated it higher. But for me there wasn't enough other substance backing it up. On the other hand, it's so exceptionally short that it's probably worth the read anyway, if you liked Holes. Rating: G