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Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
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bookshelves: best-ya-ever, ya-nature-adventure, middle-grades, children
Sep 17, 2012
bookshelves: best-ya-ever, ya-nature-adventure, middle-grades, children
RIP, Gary Paulson, October 16, 2021
I have read Hatchet a few times and listened to it with the fam a couple times in the car, and taught it and each time it reads better and better. Just listened to Peter Coyote read it while riding back from Yellowstone, and loved it. Great story, well told, well read.
An adventure story in part based on tough guy (with a big heart) Paulson's own survival of a plane crash and other near death experiences. When I think of that kid there finding ways to survive at a lake in Nowhere, Canada, miles from civilization, I see it precisely, I have been there, in the way of the best books. And some genuine heart-pumping moments.
Paulsen's great achievement. How is it it rates only 3.61 from GR readers?! Read it, or read it again, in honor of this great book, probably written for middle grades, but really all-ages in the way of classics.
Great book!!
I have read Hatchet a few times and listened to it with the fam a couple times in the car, and taught it and each time it reads better and better. Just listened to Peter Coyote read it while riding back from Yellowstone, and loved it. Great story, well told, well read.
An adventure story in part based on tough guy (with a big heart) Paulson's own survival of a plane crash and other near death experiences. When I think of that kid there finding ways to survive at a lake in Nowhere, Canada, miles from civilization, I see it precisely, I have been there, in the way of the best books. And some genuine heart-pumping moments.
Paulsen's great achievement. How is it it rates only 3.61 from GR readers?! Read it, or read it again, in honor of this great book, probably written for middle grades, but really all-ages in the way of classics.
Great book!!
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Reading Progress
September 17, 2012
– Shelved
September 25, 2012
– Shelved as:
best-ya-ever
December 23, 2012
– Shelved as:
ya-nature-adventure
Started Reading
2017
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Finished Reading
October 17, 2021
– Shelved as:
middle-grades
October 17, 2021
– Shelved as:
children
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Aug 17, 2013 11:38AM
It's an average 3.61 because this ia a required book from grade school, so my 2 stars is based on the memory of how I felt about it at age, 9! lol, I do need to reread this now as someone who is interested in "man vs. nature" books
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Yes, I thought it was a required book, so reflects that, and surely teachers are now requiring kids to (resentfully) post their GR scores.... and middle school kids are just bored with anything required...
I just had this recommended to me by a 9-year-old acquaintance. So between her enthusiasm and yours, I guess I better read it! :-)
Well, I love this book, it is as real to me in memory as anything that ever happened to me personally. But you can tell I wrote that "review" 7 years ago, before anyone began reading my reviews. The reviews of 2012 were all 2-3 sentences! What happened to me?! I'm just getting more and more verbose!
Oh no, I wasn't aware he had died! I liked the Hatchet books as a kid, but I have much fonder memories of Rodomonte's Revenge and The Transall Saga (of all things). Every time my family went on a road trip, I would check out the books-on-tape for Rodomonte's Revenge. I may have to try to find a copy of either of those... RIP.
RIP, indeed. And yeah, I have all those books, too. But you might be in the minority liking them more than the Hatchet series.
I’m reading Hatchet for the 4th or 5 th time and just saw your review said he passed in 2021, I hadn’t heard and am heartbroken! His Hatchet series started the love of the wilderness and survival skills in me when I was a 9 year old girl. RIP Gary.
