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Bezig met laden... Cosmic (2008)door Frank Cottrell Boyce
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. "I'm not exactly in the Lake District." This is how we meet Liam, a twelve-year old boy who looks much older. So much so that he is continuously mistaken for an adult. So much so that he finds himself in outer space, with a bunch of kids, who think he's a dad. And now everything has gone wrong and it's up to him to get them all home safely again. It's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with a bit of Space Odyssey and World of Warcraft thrown in. One of the things that I love about Boyce's books is how he includes very philosophical ideas but makes them very accessible. In this case, he explores the psychological implications of seeing the earth from space with the concept of "dadliness," what makes a person a parent. Boyce balances these potentially contrived, sappy topics with pitch-perfect humor. He is a master of setting up scenes and writing dialogue. This is one of my favorite books of this year, and I shall give it to everyone I see. --Response of first reading (May 2010)-- Love! I would be reading this on the train and be very sad when my stop came and I had to put it away. How could I have forgotten how much I love this author? I even want to go back and reread the others now. I love how Liam figures out his course of action by comparing life to World of Warcraft levels (note to self: have a WoW player read this and comment). I love how the story is a kind of new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Sort of. Kinda. I did think that Liam managed to be very grown-up through the entire second half, and perhaps could have shown more of the boy who would probably be freaking out. But I didn't really care. Florida cracks me up. I know so many kids just like that. Cosmic, dirigida a lectores entre 8 y 12 años, trata sobre el delicado equilibrio entre la autoridad paterna y el afán por la independencia de los adolescentes. El héroe de esta novela es Liam Digby, un niño de doce años que a causa de su desproporcionada altura y una incipiente barba es objeto de burlas en el colegio. Sus únicos amigos son los jugadores online de un videojuego llamado "World of Warcraft". A Liam le toman a menudo por un adulto, lo que, sin duda, puede desembocar en hilarantes situaciones, como cuando se hace pasar por el nuevo director del departamento de Humanidades del Instituto, o cuando en la feria de automóviles un vendedor le ofrece conducir un Porche. Narrada en primera persona por Liam, el autor ha construido una irreverente historia, que engancha desde la primera página y mantiene el interés del lector con un ritmo frenético y una trama desternillante al tiempo que emotiva.
The hero of Boyce’s enchanting third novel has grown a bit over the summer. “Seven inches is not a spurt,” his father says. “Seven inches is a mutation.” Having facial hair and the height of an adult is a nuisance for 12-year-old Liam, until he realizes he can pass for a grownup. The charade escalates into danger when Liam passes himself off as his own father and wins a trip to a new theme park in China with his friend Florida, where they will be the first to experience an out-of-this-world new thrill ride. “The Rocket” turns out to be a real rocket, and the novel opens with Liam and four other kids literally lost in space. What follows is a hilarious and heartfelt examination of “dadliness” in all its forms, including idiotic competitiveness and sports chatter, but also genuine care and concern. Luckily for the errant space cadets, Liam possesses skills honed playing World of Warcraft online—yes, here is a novel, finally, that confirms that playing computer games can be good for you. A can’t-miss offering from an author whose latest novel may be his best yet. Ages 8–12. PrijzenErelijsten
Juvenile Fiction.
Juvenile Literature.
Science Fiction.
HTML: Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This is primarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it's just frustrating, being a kid trapped in an adult world. And so he decides to flip things around. Liam cons his way onto the first spaceship to take civilians into space, a special flight for a group of kids and an adult chaperone, and he is going as the adult chaperone. It's not long before Liam, along with his friends, is stuck between two worlds again--only this time he's 239,000 miles from home. Frank Cottrell Boyce, author of MILLIONS and FRAMED, brings us a funny and touching story of the many ways in which grown-upness is truly wasted on grown-ups. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Liam is only 12 years old, but he's so tall that people are always confusing him for a grown-up. He takes advantage of this when he can, especially when the opportunity arises to visit a super-secret theme park with the greatest thrill ride ever created. The only catch is that Liam can't go as a kid; he has to go incognito as an adult. Liam's perspective as a child pretending to be an adult is amusing and full of insight. In his study of "dadliness" his conclusions are fantastic because they're both funny and true.
The only reason this misses five stars for me is because I was totally skeptical of the ending. Granted, this is not realistic fiction, but even as science fiction it really stretched believability in order to come to a happy conclusion. Specifically, **Spoiler Alert** how did a bunch of untrained kids (geniuses though they may be) pilot a rocket ship around the moon and land it safely on the earth using a video game and maths? Ridiculous. ( )