Spud
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
The record-breaking, bestselling Spud arrives in paperback
JOHN ?SPUD? MILTON takes his first hilarious steps toward manhood in this delicious, laugh-out-loud boarding school romp, full of midnight swims, raging hormones, and catastrophic holidays that will leave the entire family in hysterics and thirsty for more!
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John Milton, 13, a scholarship student at an elite boys' boarding school in South Africa, records his disturbing but often hilarious exploits in this diary-style first novel set in 1990. As the year begins, President F.W. de Klerk decriminalizes the African National Congress and orders the release of political prisoner Nelson Mandela but not even massive societal upheaval can get pre-pubescent boys to think about something other than girls, or set aside their depraved trick-playing. Nicknamed Spud because of his small "willy," John reports without judgment the events around him. The large cast of housemates includes mayhem leaders Rambo and Boggo, who instruct in "how to rape and pillage schoolgirls," Gecko, who succumbs to every passing malady, and Fatty, an overeater intent on breaking the school's sustained-fart record. The faculty is another can of mixed nuts: the drama teacher, unimaginatively named Eve, seduces an underclassman; the Guv begins English class by calling Henry James "a boring poof" and tossing his novels out the window. In many ways Spud appears to be a literary cousin of Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicholson, whose diaries also detail, in colorful slang, life with whacked-out relatives, obsession with emergent sexuality and school-related capers. There's a bit more heft here away from home, Spud sees his parents' racism clearly but he doesn't come of age: he's a star choirboy whose voice hasn't broken. After all, there are three years of school left and a sequel due next fall. Ages 12-up.
Customer Reviews
Spud is great
Spud is one of the best books you'll read. It accurately describes how a teenager reacts to stiff
Lame
The first spud book is awsome ( I'm not going to use any fancy words ) for me the first 35 pages was the mist interesting thing ever ..... But the rest of the book is disappointing. The book isn't properly structured in the way it should be. There is inaccuracy the story. In a interview he said that he made people up to fit the setting and to change the way you see spud. This is also disappointing because his life story is different. His dad drove a BMW. And they weren't heavy drunks. If you subtract the made up characters in the book... It seems kind of lame. But if you are willing enough . Buy tge book . Personally for me it was a dissapointment. Especialy the ending . Tear that page out if the book , it will do better than " I moved down the hill to meet my father " right after he described the mist beutiful setting !
Spud isn't for me ( review based on own opinion )