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Offbeat and Crazed, October 22, 2003
This review is from: A House Called Awful End (Eddie Dickens Trilogy) (Mass Market Paperback)
I read this book outloud to my children (boy 8 and girl 10). They loved it. It is just a little on the crazed side. I found that I enjoyed it almost as much as they did. The humour is quirky to say the least. I highly recomend it if you are looking for something to share.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Entertaining New Children's Series, July 2, 2004
This review is from: A House Called Awful End (Eddie Dickens Trilogy) (Mass Market Paperback)
Eddie Dickens is horrified when his beloved Mother and Father catch a disease that not only makes them turn yellow, but also makes them go a bit crinkly around the edges, and smell of old hot-water bottles. Eddie is even more horrified when he finds out that he must go away and stay with relatives - whom he's never met - at their home called Awful End. Soon Eddie finds that these strange relatives of his are indeed just that. Strange. For Mad Uncle Jack and Even Madder Aunt Maud, are absolutely crazy. However, along the way to Awful End, Eddie is plagued wih meeting even more crazy people and strange situations, for he is threatened by a bearded stranger, hypnotized by a handkerchief, and, worst of all, he's mistaken for an escaped orphan from St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans. What more will Eddie have to endure before his parents are cured, and he's able to escape Mad Uncle Jack and Even Madder Aunt Maud? When I saw the cover of A HOUSE CALLED AWFUL END, I was instantly reminded of one of my favorite series' A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, and after reading the back cover, I realized that this book sounded a bit like those treasures by Lemony Snicket. However, while A HOUSE CALLED AWFUL END is entirely enjoyable, it's not much like A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. Eddie, however, is a fun character who will capture the hearts of young readers the world over. Philip Ardagh, like Lemony Snicket, makes the reader sympathize with Eddie throughout all of the tragedies - no matter how funny they seem - that he must endure, helping the reader to identify with him. Overall this was a cute book, complete with nicely drawn illustrations appearing on every few pages. Erika Sorocco
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Humor for all ages!, January 26, 2007
A Kid's Review
This review is from: A House Called Awful End (Eddie Dickens Trilogy) (Mass Market Paperback)
Who doesn't like humor? If you like humor, read Awful End, the first book in the Eddie Dickens Trilogy by Philip Ardagh! When Eddie was only thirteen, his parents got an awful disease that turned his parents yellow, crinkly around the edges, and smell of old hot water bottles. The disease was very catchy, so Eddie had to go with his Great Mad Uncle Jack and his Even-Madder Aunt Maud back to their house, where he would stay until his parents got better.
This book has the best characters ever! They are hilarious. One of the funniest characters was the doctors, because his prescriptions were totally ridiculous, such as sucking on ice cubes shaped like famous generals heads, and having their sheets replaced with brown paper bags glued together with the extra pieces of sticky papers you some times get at the post office if you buy more than one stamp. But my favorite character was Eddies Even-Madder Aunt Maud. She had a stuffed stoat named Malcom, and seemed to think he was real, so she was always talking to him, and Eddie thought she was talking to him, so he got in trouble with her a lot. Maud has a very interesting living life style. In the carriage they are traveling in to Awful End (their house) she makes everyone sit on one side of the carriage while the other is empty, and at the end of a story she sees a carnival float cow, and falls in love with it, and decides to live in her. I think if you like humor, you should read this book.
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