My therapist is moving away and I feel even more like Bradley Chalkers than I have before in my entire life and that kid is basically me. So I guess I have to buy her a shower curtain now.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 00:54 (seventeen years ago)
I think this is my favorite book.
I remember nothing about this book other than that I read it - though not as funny as the Wayside books, I was disappointed to find.
― robertwolf8080, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 00:59 (seventeen years ago)
A lot of his early books were just fucking depressing.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 01:00 (seventeen years ago)
the Wayside School books and Holes were probably my favorite books back in elementary school. i don't think i ever read this one though, but i remember Holes being pretty intense and really good for a childrens book
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 01:04 (seventeen years ago)
i remember this book
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 05:22 (seventeen years ago)
he was no beverly cleary, but dude was onto something. i should re-read this book. and holes. the only ones i remember vividly are the wayside stories.
― ian, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 05:24 (seventeen years ago)
very dark book -- or at least it seemed like it to 4th-grade me. the touches of sweet whimsy (the stuffed animals that bradley talked to) just made the kid's predicament all the sadder and more believable.
― J.D., Tuesday, 13 May 2008 05:25 (seventeen years ago)
Beverly Cleary & Louis Sachar were my literature from 1st through 4th grade
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 05:39 (seventeen years ago)
dude, my therapist is moving away too! (probably to write a tell all liftout for NW) so harsh.
― bingolola, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 06:31 (seventeen years ago)
A Sachar spotting:
The Los Angeles Dodgers may have been on the road yesterday in New York, but there was still an all-star lineup on the field of Dodger Stadium. Noted children’s authors Judy Blume, Louis Sachar, Polly Horvath, Christopher Paolini, Kate Klimo, Marjorie Priceman, Marc Brown, and Judy Sierra participated in Random House Children’s Books Saturday night cocktail reception for the BEA....The baseball-themed event was embraced by all the authors, some of whom even wore baseball caps....Sachar wore a San Francisco Giants hat, which made several people laugh. Why? He explained that he just couldn’t resist wearing his favorite team’s hat in the stadium of its worst rival.
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The baseball-themed event was embraced by all the authors, some of whom even wore baseball caps....Sachar wore a San Francisco Giants hat, which made several people laugh. Why? He explained that he just couldn’t resist wearing his favorite team’s hat in the stadium of its worst rival.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 June 2008 04:57 (seventeen years ago)