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Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.46 | 8148 Users | 871 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Wild Things |
| Author | : | Dave Eggers |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | October 13th 2009 by McSweeney's (first published 2009) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Fantasy. Young Adult. Adventure. Childrens |
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The Wild Things — based very loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze — is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can’t control.Be Specific About Books In Pursuance Of The Wild Things
| Original Title: | The Wild Things |
| ISBN: | 1934781614 (ISBN13: 9781934781616) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | LovelyBooks Leserpreis Nominee for Allgemeine Literatur (2009) |
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Ratings: 3.46 From 8148 Users | 871 ReviewsPiece Epithetical Books The Wild Things
This book is so freaking adorable. Everything is from Max's perspective and feels 100% genuine for an 8 year old boy who doesn't understand why his world is coming apart. Max's parents are divorced and his mother is seeing someone else and he feels like the entire world is against him. So, he runs away and finds an island in the middle of the sea filled with huge terrible looking monsters who are just as lost as he is. The monsters kind of stand in for different people in his life in the realSorry, Dave ... not one of your finer efforts. Please go back to fictionalized journalism like What is the What or Zeitoun, both of which are brilliant and among my favourite novels. I don't mind your autobiographical stuff (and this, I sense, is part of what this is) and I've not read the Sendak book upon which The Wild Things is based (I don't think - or maybe I have but it left no impression, clearly), so it's not that I have any particular allegiance to the original. And it's not even that
Sendak's book always disturbed me. "We'll eat you up. We love you so." How do you explain that to a 3-year-old. But the book enthralled me too...Max, leading wild rumpuses...then coming home. It confused me, worried me.All those mixed feelings are here in this book. Eggers, whom I love, co-wrote the screenplay and then re-adapted the movie for this novel. Haven't seen the film; probably won't.This book disturbs, enthralls, confuses and worries me. But finally, it comforts me.Children lead lively
I started reading this book thinking the same thing I usually think when I start reading a Dave Eggers book, "Why am I reading this?" There's something weird about reading one of his books. The way he writes, it's too simple or something. I dont know. Well, once again I kept reading anyways. And what do ya know, this book hit me super hard. This book hit me like Catcher in the Rye hit me, i think. Not as life changing, though at 13 its easier for a book to change ones life... maybe not.Im really
Skeptical, I was extremely skeptical. We already have a Where The Wild Things Are and I'm not sure it could possibly be improved upon. I did enjoy Spike Jonze's movie adaptation quite a lot, but this exists in book form. Why would you do a novelization when the picture book is so perfect? Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read why I came to this decision here.In the meantime, you can read the entire review at
I loved The Wild Things. I had expected to like it, to find it maybe average or even good, but it is fantastic. This version of Max is perhaps the best depiction of a child I've come across in recent memory. His thoughts, feelings, decisions, rationalisations, all felt real, all felt like those of an actual child, and certainly reminded me of myself as a child. The story itself is wonderful. To me, it captures much of the same magic as Where the Wild Things Are. And like its source material, The
Needed a book to listen to on the dark walk to and from work and chose this from the York Library collection because I remember it being a movie with an interesting poster, and because the idea of children and monsters interacting appeals to some crazy part of me.It's a story of Max, an eight year old, who lives in a world of his own where everything around him is only there for him to enjoy and experience as an adventure. He's kinda selfish, and doesn't realise that he hurts his family, friends
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