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Hover Car Racer di Matthew Reilly
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Hover Car Racer (originale 2004; edizione 2004)

di Matthew Reilly

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The latest action-packed bestseller from Matthew Reilly, author of Ice Station and Scarecrow. In the world of the near future, the most popular sport is hover car racing. Superfast and dangerous, its heroes are the racers: part fighter pilot, part race-car driver, all superstar.But to get to the Pro Circuit, you must first pass through the International Race School, a brutal cauldron of wild races on even wilder courses, where only the best of the best will survive ...This is the story of Jason Chaser, a talented young racer selected to attend the Race School. He's younger than the other students. He's smaller. His trusty car, the Argonaut, is older. But Jason Chaser is no ordinary racer. And as he races against the best drivers in the world he will learn that at Race School winning is everything, that not everyone in this world fights fair, and that you never ever have any friends on the track. "[Matthew Reilly's] books are so fast paced and action-packed that it's hard to come up for a breather. Think James Bond and times it by 100." - Voyeur, Virgin Blue's inflight magazine… (altro)
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Titolo:Hover Car Racer
Autori:Matthew Reilly
Info:Macmillan (2004), Hardcover, 320 pages
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I'm very tempted to give this book five stars, but I'm not sure I can give a young adult audio-book like this such a high rating.

Eleven CDs kept me entertained while I was on the road for work this week. Matthew managed to keep me wide awake despite the long drives. On many occasions I found myself holding my breath and gripping the steering wheel, hoping that Jason and The Bug were okay.

Hover Car Racer is essentially Matthew Reilly for tweens and teens. He makes sure that every teen angst and tragedy befalls Jason Chaser, to the point that you hate all the bad guys for being so mean. Yes, I'm probably too old to be calling characters meany-pies.

This isn't really a book for adults, despite how much I enjoyed it. My wife found it a little too childish in language use for her liking, were I was able to ignore that issue, as the pace rocketed along. As such, give this to any young boys you have in your family, especially if they aren't big readers. Hover Car Racer is likely to be one of those books that hooks kids on reading. ( )
  TysonAdams | Jun 20, 2017 |
Ah, I read this book years ago for a book club competition in high school!

It's not a book I would've picked up but I enjoyed reading it nonetheless. I appreciated the writing and I found it an easy read. I did like that the author included a character who seems somewhat on the ASD spectrum but I seem to remember not liking the fact that there weren't any particularly memorable female characters apart from one, Piper.

Even though I enjoyed it, I haven't picked up any of Reilly's writing since, and I just feel like he writes books that don't seem to grab me as much. While I enjoy reading them, I never really go for them if I'm in a bookshop.

But that's just me! ( )
  lydia1879 | Aug 31, 2016 |
My son read this in two days and loved it so decided to give it a go. It was great!! Fast paced and action-packed (although a bit far-fetched at times), I found it hard to put down. Absolutely loved the Bug!! ( )
  HeatherLINC | Jan 23, 2016 |
Set sometime in the future.15 year old Jason Chaser and his younger brother, Bug, are into hover car racing. These formula 1 type racing cars hover on air above the surface. They are noticed at an amateur event and invited to attend the prestigious International Race School, which has taken over the whole of Tasmania. Jason is working against the odds; he is the youngest member in the school, he’s adopted and comes from a poor family and there are people out to make sure he doesn’t win. Jason never gives up, and ends up competing against the world’s best.
Fast moving. Action packed. Includes diagrams ( )
  dalzan | Jan 24, 2013 |
Jason Chaser, hover car racer (it is rather tasteless alliteration, is it not?) gets his chance to join the premier hover-car racing school to prove his mettle against a world-wide crop of rising stars. Racing school is where up-and-coming racers, like Jason, get to learn the intricate details of racing. And race hover cars, too. However, we only really get to read the parts where they race eachother in hover-cars.

Matthew Reilly's writing isn't really any different to any other book he's done. Punctuation marks and capitalisation abound, and, like his other books, has a fairly simple and unchallenging vocabulary. And, as with all of Reilly's books, there are plenty of diagrams to depict where the action occurs - this time, on various race tracks. Although the grey colour scheme for these pictures could have been done better, all of the diagrams are re-produced in their original colours (Hover Car Racer was originally an online release), for the middle section of the book, which is quite neat.

As to the plot of the story, it is quite cliched, and you've probably read it in a plethora of young adult stories. Young, smart kid against bigger, tougher, but less intelligent, counterparts. Lessons are learnt about friendship, and teamwork and other such things. The racing part of the story is equally cliched - the rivals who play unfairly, overcoming the odds to win the important races, and other such cliches.

Character development rarely passes beyond broad sketches, either.

I'm sorry if I spoiled it all, but there is really little doubt as to the results of what is going to happen before it does happen. Trom all that I've said, it sounds like I am going to give "Hover Car Racer" quite a low rating.

But I'm not.

There's one thing that I haven't mentioned yet that largely manages to trump all that. I had a lot of fun reading "Hover Car Racer". Although I knew the destination of where the story was going to go, I didn't know what would happen in the journey there (well, I didn't the first time I read it), and it was certainly fun finding out. Preposterous fun, certainly, but fun nonetheless.

Yes, it is cliched, and rather simply written. Yes, it is preposterous. It is also, in spite of this (or perhaps because of this) quite a fun read. ( )
  rojse | Nov 14, 2009 |
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The race was barely nine minutes old when Jason Chaser lost his steering rudder.
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The latest action-packed bestseller from Matthew Reilly, author of Ice Station and Scarecrow. In the world of the near future, the most popular sport is hover car racing. Superfast and dangerous, its heroes are the racers: part fighter pilot, part race-car driver, all superstar.But to get to the Pro Circuit, you must first pass through the International Race School, a brutal cauldron of wild races on even wilder courses, where only the best of the best will survive ...This is the story of Jason Chaser, a talented young racer selected to attend the Race School. He's younger than the other students. He's smaller. His trusty car, the Argonaut, is older. But Jason Chaser is no ordinary racer. And as he races against the best drivers in the world he will learn that at Race School winning is everything, that not everyone in this world fights fair, and that you never ever have any friends on the track. "[Matthew Reilly's] books are so fast paced and action-packed that it's hard to come up for a breather. Think James Bond and times it by 100." - Voyeur, Virgin Blue's inflight magazine

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