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5.0 out of 5 stars
It is lurid, loud and enormously enjoyable!
The narrator is a girl named Jennifer, who is on the brink of adolescence. Her home life is somewhat strange ( her father, Bob, insists on naked calishtenics every morning for the whole family and her gray-haired mother placidly goes along ) , she has no friends and yearns to be normal. And then her already off-center world is thrown completely topsy-turvy when she learns...
Published on March 27, 1997
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1.0 out of 5 stars
boring
Dull dull dull. The main character was uninteresting, which makes for an uninteresting book when written in the first person as this one is. Plot points that were intriguing on the book jacket, such as naked Bob and the mysterious Johnny, are largely unexplored in favor of the angst of 13 year old Jenny. The book just never got my attention, and I really didn't care...
Published on June 25, 2001
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1.0 out of 5 stars
boring,
By A Customer
This review is from: Digging to Australia (Hardcover)
Dull dull dull. The main character was uninteresting, which makes for an uninteresting book when written in the first person as this one is. Plot points that were intriguing on the book jacket, such as naked Bob and the mysterious Johnny, are largely unexplored in favor of the angst of 13 year old Jenny. The book just never got my attention, and I really didn't care what happened to Jenny.
5.0 out of 5 stars
It is lurid, loud and enormously enjoyable!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Digging to Australia (Hardcover)
The narrator is a girl named Jennifer, who is on the brink of adolescence. Her home life is somewhat strange ( her father, Bob, insists on naked calishtenics every morning for the whole family and her gray-haired mother placidly goes along ) , she has no friends and yearns to be normal. And then her already off-center world is thrown completely topsy-turvy when she learns that her supposed parents are really her grandparents, that her mother fled years ago, and that, worse yet for someone about to turn thirteen, her real birthday is now much later in the year. Seeking escape both in her fantasies ---- her favorite book has long been "Alice in Wonderland" ---- and in real life ---- through her friendship with obsequious new schoolmate, Bronwyn, and with the sinister Johnny, who dwells in a forgotten, never-consecrated church ---- Jennifer is about to undergo her own adventures in her own wonderland, with terrifying and final consequences she cannot ( yet ) even imagine.I loved it and I recommend it to people of all ages |
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Digging to Australia by Lesley Glaister (Hardcover - August 24, 1992)
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