Comments on: One-A-Day: Louis Sachar, Holes https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2008/02/20/one-a-day-louis-sachar-holes/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:04:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2008/02/20/one-a-day-louis-sachar-holes/comment-page-1/#comment-4985 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:04:01 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=524#comment-4985 I like the movie very much also. Very smart choices about how to approach the story, and since Sachar wrote the screenplay, the language retains its perfect pitch.

]]> By: Russell Arben Fox https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2008/02/20/one-a-day-louis-sachar-holes/comment-page-1/#comment-4984 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:24:04 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=524#comment-4984 Yes, Sachar’s Holes in one of the real masterpieces of a genre that’s hard to do well: serious young adult fiction–“serious” in the sense that it’s doing serious things, despite the overlapping layers of myth and whimsy. This isn’t to knock many other fine YA novels; just to note that in so many, certain recurring fantasy elements serve as kind of a story-telling crutch, but Sachar manages to tell a story that is really his own, and that’s rare.

Have you seen the movie version, with the young Shia LaBeouf? I thought it was wonderful, and really struck the right tone for the story, but your take may differ.

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