Comments on: Top 100 Children’s Novels #6: Holes by Louis Sachar

By: rockinlibrarian

rockinlibrarian — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:52:29 +0000

THAT’S WHO I MEANT, rams, yes! Sorry. Her.

By: Stacy DeKeyser

Stacy DeKeyser — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:28:21 +0000

This is the book that made me want to be a writer. It inspired and intimidated me all at the same time. It still does! It’s a masterpiece.

By: rams

rams — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:46:37 +0000

But the Warden is Sigourney Weaver, yes?

By: Beverly

Beverly — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:44:44 +0000

I sometimes have discussions with random kids at my library about movies based on books. They, like me, are often purists, and appalled at how little a movie resembles the book. I hold up Sachar for them as a hero, explaining how he stuck to his guns and refused to let them change the plot at all. Why is it that movies that stick closely to the books are always better movies, and ultimately perform better at the box office, but movie corporations assume that all kids like the same things, and doggedly keep changing novels’ stories???

By: Kate Coombs

Kate Coombs — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:59:49 +0000

The reason the movie was so good is that Louis Sachar wrote the script. They usually take a story clear away from the author and bowdlerize it to the nth degree.

By: rockinlibrarian

rockinlibrarian — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:45:48 +0000

Susan Sarandon as the Warden is way up there on my list of Movie Versions of Book Characters That Could Have Walked Straight Out of The Book/My Head. I’m in awe of that. I love the movie in general, but even that movie still has a “The book was still better” issue– but only because the book is JUST THAT GOOD.