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GREAT REVIEW!!!

HA! I haven't read The Hatchet since elementary school and based on your review I probably won't read it again. :)

ha ha ha...you're right...I'm reading this out loud to my son and I skip the repetitions because they are too annoying. It seems like a juvenile writing device to repeat so much, repeat, repeat...

YES! BEST REVIEW!! THIS was exactly what I found so irksome about the book. The writing style is so irritating, and really, who thinks like that? The Divorce. The Secret. The Divorce. The Secret.

Okay, so while I might not agree with you completely, I do find your review HILARIOUS.

The only thing I've heard about this book was an excerpt on a radio PSA. It sounded like Hebrew poetry: "He made them male and female; male and female He made them." I'll have to get it from the library; I don't think I could purchase something that sounds like that.

i dont know what u r saying, this is a great book

ha ha - I loved this book, but that was a constant issue with me as I read it (out loud to my children). Anyhow - love your take on it - thanks for the laugh!!!!

I'm reading this book right now because my nephew enjoyed it so much. I'm not very far in, but the repetition is really annoying. Your review made me laugh out loud!

I had the same feeling

Your review made me LOL! Couldn't have said it better myself :) Good to know I'm not the only one who despised it, but at least you have a good sense of humor about it.

I haven't read this book, but your review is the best review ever!!! I actually laughed so hard I cried & couldn't finish reading it to my husband...it could be that I am overly tired, but I seriously cried. LOL

I actually got the CD for my kids to listen to in the car, but when I couldn't bear it anymore (after the first chapter), I switched to the book just so I could get through it and not torture my husband and children. I read poetry, so I could bear the repetition if it went somewhere and meant something (like your beautiful and charming review). However, what really irked me was that the information in it was so inaccurate and unbelievable - would any sane person get into a lake with flesh eating fish?!? - I also felt it would have been a good book to use as tinder while starting a fire with flint and steel.

I totally agree with you. Its like, OMG his parents are getting a divorce, scarred for life now.

I thought it was a good book but I do agree it was very repetitious. I think that he should have tried to make Brian do some other things or he could have more problems he could just made the book shorter. I did think that it was pretty slow paced book and I don't like books like that. I liked the ending of the book though when he makes the raft and goes out to the plane and gets the safety thing calls for help and gets saved.

This is my favorite review ever.

Thank you for the review, I hate repetitive books

Your review is priceless! I laughed out loud.

This book was so repetitious, why so repetitious, I know not why this book was so repetitious, but the repetitions made me want to pull my hair out.
- repetition is evident in this quote haha

I actually liked the repetition. To me if felt like a coping mechanism on Brian's part and I thought it showed his singlemindedness quite well. I can see how some would find it annoying, though.

Your review is so true! Exactly how I felt reading this book!!

You didn't explain the book AT ALL!!

Yessssss. Same issue for me. And I love survival stories!

While reading aloud to my daughter I mimicked this style while pretending to read an episode where a crocodile grabs Brian from out of the lake. Because I kept this repetitive style, she didn't even skip a beat. I had to stop and break the news to her. She thought it was better than the actual turtle egg outcome.

You know, I thought I was crazy when I kept noticing the pointless repetition. Your review makes me smile (and feel less crazy).

"However, what really irked me was that the information in it was so inaccurate and unbelievable - would any sane person get into a lake with flesh eating fish?!?"

Then every person who has ever swam in a lake populated with fish is insane. They weren't pariahs, just normal fish.

Yes. You're spot on with this review. I read it as a kid and apparently liked it enough that I had good memories of it. I just did the audiobook and it was awful. Good story and all, but that repetitious repeating repeated in my brain. I played thirty seconds fort wife. She laughed and said she'd skip it. For teen wilderness survival I'll stick with My Side of the Mountain. There's a real classic.

ahahhaahhahahaaaaaa....

this is fantastic, i think i may have read this in school but i cant remember and this is probably why

lol

Love it! That was so funny, so very funny, funny as funny should be.

I agree

Lol. I thought his writing was pretty odd, too. I love your review!

I'm one third of the way into the audiobook and am not sure how long I can handle the repetition. The secret repetition. Secret. Horrible. It hurts. The secret.

I wondered if I would notice it as much in print. Glad I'm not the only one!

I like your review... he did have a funny way of writing it. the repetition is obvious in the audio. I feel like I was being hypnotize by those repetitions though come to think of it. I might have dreamed about it too. And now I'm on the second book.

I'm pretty sure that your comment on the book was more repetitious than the entire book itself.

Looked this up to decide whether or not to order for my son off the Scholastic book form ($1). Hilarious review! My son enjoyed your review!

Then you do not understand that syle of literaure. The repetition gives it life. It is what makes it good. The repetition is real-to-life and it is what makes this book great and draws the well-read and well-educated readers in.

EXACTLY! I'm struggling with this easy read because I can't take the writing style anymore.

You totally nailed the delivery. I had a literal LOL while reading your review. I read your review and LOLed. Your review was so so accurate, and I LOLed. I am listening to the audiobook, too. You totally nailed not only the repetitions but also the syntax and cadence.

Your review is amazing馃槀

Dude. This book is the best. How could you do that.

Please share with us your platitude of written work.

WHY ARE YOU SO MEAN!馃槨

I actually liked the book, but your review gave me some lulz. That style -- and especially Peter Coyote's delivery of it in the audiobook -- not my favorite aspect of the book.

I hated having to read this book as a kid...

You do realize this is a kids book right?

Thank you for your review! It made me laugh so much. Please never delete it.

Teri wrote: "Then you do not understand that syle of literaure. The repetition gives it life. It is what makes it good. The repetition is real-to-life and it is what makes this book great and draws the well-rea..."

Please. I love reading Act Without Words by Beckett. This book is trash. The author probably had a word count to meet in order for the publisher to publish it. If Paulsen was so ingenious in his use of repetition, he would have written a much shorter work and everyone would agree that the repetition was necessary. In Act Without Words, repetition is necessary to show the futility of doing anything. Since things get accomplished in Hatchet, that certainly can't be the reason Paulsen used it. You say the repetition is "real-to-life" but that is not true. Most sane people do not continuously brood over thoughts for 208 pages. So what is it? To show his anger? Then it is not necessary because we already get that. To build suspense? Then Paulsen did a bad job because most people are not riveted to the book because he is repeating himself.

Repetition has a place in literature, but only if it is used properly. When it is used properly, people who are literary minded will say, "Ah, yes, that is why he did it" and 90% of them will agree. In this case, everyone believes he used the repetition for a reason, but no one can agree on why he used it. The result is that they come up with about 20 different reasons that are general reasons an author would use repetition. However, none of them fit this book, except mine- he needed to reach a publisher's word count. That doesn't make a book amazing.

Tamro wrote: ""However, what really irked me was that the information in it was so inaccurate and unbelievable - would any sane person get into a lake with flesh eating fish?!?"

Then every person who has ever swam in a lake populated with fish is insane. They weren't pariahs, just normal fish."

Normal fish eat dead humans only as a last resort if there is no other source of food.