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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Doom Machine (edizione 2009)di Mark Teague
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Jack Creedle, and the town of Vern Hollow, have been invaded by aliens. Well, not invaded per se, more like under the watchful eyes of creepy, giant spider aliens who are after Uncle Bud’s invention—a refrigerator-looking machine that actually can create holes in space and time. But, when Jack, Uncle Bud, Isadora Shumway and her highly-respected scientist mother are kidnapped by the spider aliens, things really get crazy. What I liked: GREAT characters! All the main characters are different with their own individual quirks and attitudes. The plot is solid and interesting enough (who doesn’t love a group of hapless earthlings who have to save the Earth from alien invaders?). What I didn’t like: Teague writes the story from many points of view, and each time we shift from one to another, there’s a scene break. Sometimes there’s two scene breaks on one page. It got tiresome by chapter five. I appreciate trying to write the story from multiple points of view, but there are better ways to accomplish that. It was also unnecessarily long. 376 pages that could easily have been told in 250. An okay read, but nothing spectacular. 3.5 out of 5 stars I was working on an author/illustrator project for class and was excited to see that Mark Teague had a novel out for intermediate grades. The Doom Machine is modern fantasy/science fiction. I am not a fan of this genre but I tried getting through the entire book. It was rather hard for me to get interested in the book as it would go back and forth between human talk and alien talk. I found myself lost a lot in the story and had to go back to re-read. The book, set in the 1950's is presented in three parts: Earth, Arboria and Skreepia. Jack Creedle and Isadora Shumway are on a mission to find the flying saucer that has freaked out the entire town of Vern Hollow. They, along with Isadora's mom and Jack's uncle, are captured by the alien skreeps. There's adventure galore as the kids travel through time and galaxies, fighting the aliens or trying to escape. And there's the ongoing story about the "special item" that has everyone all riled up. There are illustrations done by Mark Teague sprinkled throughout The Doom Machine. In his usual fun style of drawings, they add character to the book and just enough vision for the reader's curiousity. I'd be willing to try another Mark Teague novel. I know that I have thoroughly enjoy all of his picture books for children. I'm anxious to see reactions from my 4th - 6th grade students as they find the book on the shelf! Who knows, I might try reading it again with them. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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When a spaceship lands in the small town of Vern Hollow in 1956, juvenile delinquent Jack Creedle and prim, studious Isadora Shumway form an unexpected alliance as they try to keep a group of extraterrestrials from stealing eccentric Uncle Bud's space travel machine. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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A big problem is the audience. Most kids aren't going to get the references or the retro feel, and most adults won't read it. That leaves adults that like goofy science fiction and also like reading children's books as an audience. That's me and two or three other people. And I read a library copy, so no help with royalties there. ( )