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Crazy Horse Electric Game

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"The Crazy Horse Electric Game" is the greatest novel I have ever read! I'm not the kind of person who enjoys to read, but this was a novel that kept me very interested until the end. The name seemed very funny to me at first, but once I started reading the novel, it kept getting better. I really admire the main character, Willie Weaver; he had a very special talent. It was baseball. After, Willie beats the rival team, Crazy Horse Electric, he later gets injured and is crippled for the rest of his life. After that it seems to him as the world is turning against him, so he runs away. He later faces many more dilemas. Please read this novel, you will not regret reading it!

Ages 13 and up. Willie Weaver is the luckiest guy on earth. He has it all going for him, he has talent, friends, and a great family. Everything is great when one day Willie has a terrible accident that leaves him crippled. Feeling awful he runs away from his home in Montana to the streets of Oakland California. In Oakland he is surrounded by thugs, pimps, and a lot of danger. The Crazy Horse Electric Game, is a great story of courage that will make you laugh and cry at the same time. This is a great book for teenagers around the globe.

Crutcher is a genius. He wrote a fantastic story about a phenomanol sports kidnamed Willie Weaver who can't be stopped. Except by an accident of course, an accident that leaves Willie little coordination and no sports ability. His family and girlfriend abandon him so he runs away. Finally he finds a new school. He knows this is his last chance in life. This taught me to do your best in any situation and it just might pay off. I liked it because it had good imagery and it really sucked you into Chris Crutchers world of writing.

The Crazy Horse Electric Game illustrates how a small town sports star, Willie Weaver, becomes unable to handle the changes that take place after an unfortunate accident. We see how Willie finds himself drifting away from his parents and he is faced with his girlfriend going out with another boy. He makes a decision to take drugs, that he is told will make him "feel better"(65), but what it really does is ruin his life by making all of his close friends and family lose faith in him. He decides to run away to leave what he has not been able to face. Willie finds himself going to OMLC, a school that gives children that don't like or can not handle public schools. The school teaches himself to control his body and become mature enough to handle the world challenges. The Crazy Horse Electric Game taught me that you need to work hard to win.

This book has truly made a lasting impact on me. It has been about eight years since I first read it, and I still recall it as one of the best young adult novels that I have ever read. I think it may be one of the best books in general that I have ever read. It is powerful, emotional, and moving-- just like all of Chris Crutcher's books. Definitely a must read!

In The Crazy Horse Electric Game, a seventeen-year-old boy, named Willie, is a strong, popular and athletic individual who seems to have everything in life come his way. He has never faced any hard challenges that he could not overcome with ease and greatness, until the day he gets into a skiing accident in which he loses most of his motor and athletic skills. As a result to his accident, he must begin to relearn all of his gifted talents, which seemed to come so natural and easy to him before, but are now his greatest challenge. Willie becomes angry and frustrated with his world. He suppresses himself from friends and family members, and in the process, causing great pain and heartache for everyone with whom he contacts. The memories of the loss of his younger sister haunt him even more, and he is afraid to live. He decides to leave his small town in Montana and move to Oakland.
There, with the help of his newfound friends and teachers, as well as a man who would seem to be unlikely source for assistance, Willie begins to learn how to do things for himself, becoming an independent person away from his home. Also, since he has to work extra hard just to regain abilities to talk, walk, run, and play sports again, he learns to value his life more. No longer are things in his life given to him; instead, he must work for everything and overcome obstacles he never thought possible.
I enjoyed reading this book, and I recommend it to anyone, especially young males in their early to mid-teen years. An individual around this age bracket would find it really easy to relate to this book because it teaches about overcoming obstacles and valuing life to the fullest extent. However, all readers of this book will learn that no matter who a person is in life, no matter how easy things seem to that individual, all of what he or she has can be taken away in an instant. Readers will see how hard it is to regain the skills and talents once possessed to a very gifted person, and that only through hard work and perseverance was that person able to overcome such tragedies upon which life can bestow.

I have read almost all of Chris Crutcher's books and I just want to say that this man is a genious. Just when I think I have read his best book yet I come up with another by him. I read Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes and was determined he couldn't write any better. This book made me cry. The ending was wonderful and it makes you want to get to know Willie Weaver. If he is out there somewhere, I feel for him. He is one lucky kid and even if he was cracked in the head with a water ski, he still has everything thinking right up stairs. He stuck with his dream all along. I respect that.

Page turning! The Crazy Horse Electric Game, by Chris Crutcher is a great book that teaches the reader a life long lesson: you may only get one chance to do something and if you fail to fulfill that opportunity, it may be gone forever. If you let that chance pass by you may regret it because you could have let something keep you from going through with it.

When seventeen year old Willie Weaver, gets injured in a water skiing accident, he begins to have problems physically, with his friends, family, and also with his emotions. Willie's was an average boy, who was also the all-star baseball champion back at his hometown in Coho. Willie thinks that all of his problems would become non- existent if he runs away, so decides to do just that, but when he returns his problems are still there but in a different twist.

Chris Crutcher writes The Crazy Horse Electric Game so that the reader can easily understand the whole morale of the story, and it is attention drawing and is able to keep you interested from beginning to end. The language and book itself, is more for seventh to tenth grade students, because of the character, language and it's also something they can easily relate to. I think that this book will attract this age group to stay intoned with The Crazy Horse Electric Game, easily understand the morale, and will keep reading until the book is finished because they will want to know everything that happens from beginning to end.

Even though this book, "The Crazy Horse Electric Game" started out rather slow, it held my attention because I didn't want to miss any of the twists that came about in the plot, like when the main character, Willie Weaver, finds his girlfriend Jennie cheating on him. "To hell with you, Willie. I can't spend the rest of my life feeling sorry for you. To hell with you!" (p.95). Jennie was refering to Willie's boating accident which left him with brain damage.

I thought it was clever how the author added the twist of Willie running away. "His ticket is for Spokane, but he'll get another one at the bus station there and head south." (p. 96). Willie decides to run away because he thinks everyone will be better off without him, and with that, he leaves home and heads for Oakland, Ca...

I thought this story had a good plot, because the setting was "static." It changed to several different settings, which created new, fresh characters, and that added more flavor to the story. I also liked the frequent setting change, because it changed the mood of the story. It could go from happy, to sad, to suspensful to triumphant. Although, the only thing I didn't like about this book was the fact that it took so long for the story to pick up in the begining. Overall, I would recommend this book because it is a strong story how one can overcome total devistation and bring themselves to success again.

This is a wonderfully touching book. Willie Weaver, the central character is a promising young athlete until he suffers from a permanent injury. Willie's father cannot accept a less than perfect son and Willie's mother has never gotten over the loss of her second child. Shut out of his parents' lives, Willie turns to his classmates, only to find rejection from them.

Disillusioned, Willie leaves Idaho for the Golden State. Once California bound, he leaves Idaho behind forever on a Greyhound bus. In the interest of easing the folks back home's possible concern, he gets a kid bound for Phoenix to send postcards to his home so they'll have a Phoenix post mark.

Once in California, Willie has a near run-in with a street gang who rob him. Broke, hurt and desperate, Willie is taken in by a guardian angel with a gritty, street attitude. The angel is a bus driver who agrees to let Willie sleep on his couch provided he attend school. Willie enrolls in a local alterative high school, called "One More Last Chance" and meets another angel in the form of the principal, Andre. Andre is a very bright and progressive man who belives all of his kids deserve many "one more last chances" and confides to Willie that some of his kids would have no other chance if not for his program. Willie thrives in this new environment and he enriches the lives of others. In true Crutcher form, this book tackles major themes such as abuse, sexuality, politics and violence realistically and intelligently.

This book is of an extremely high caliber and cannot be recommended enough.