8 Answers2025-08-20
In the grand scheme of things the controversy over this book is pretty small compared to its legacy. The book has sold millions of copies world wide. There was a major motion picture made from it. The book is found on the shelves of most libraries and is considered a classic of youth literature. The attempts to ban the book are just a footnote in the book’s Wikipedia article.
What endures in the reader's mind long after the controversy has passed is the ingenious framework of the novel and its vividly imagined characters. Read and reread for decades on end, the satisfaction ofwatching all the separate storylines fall into place is one of the greatest pleasures of reading for a young person – or of any age.
Others can frown upon this class of literature all they wish to; they are just opposing the wrong side of history on a really wonderful, fun, and highly constructed young person’s literature. In the meantime, I shall be munching on my onions and enjoying this great story.
10 Answers2025-04-23
I also read somewhere that Radcliffe was going to do a sequel from the landlady's point of view but couldn't write it because then she would be too human. He said that he couldn’t give her an internal monologue because then she would be less of a force of nature and less of a monster. There are a few interesting interview clips online where Radcliffe discusses this conundrum.
7 Answers2025-08-20
Honestly, who cares? A good book is a good book. I left this on the coffee table and my dad just finished reading it. He’s 65.
7 Answers2025-08-22
I don't know how many chapters there actually are in this book. They all seem to blend together because each chapter follows the story well into the next. I enjoyed the movie adaptation as well. It was a great adaptation because it was condensed to fit into the time of a movie but still managed to get across the spirit of the book. I'm pretty curious to re-read this and find out all of the clever ways that the author set up the structure of the story that nobody has ever mentioned before. I had no idea that a children's book could be so complex beneath the surface of such a simple read.
3 Answers2025-11-11
If you’re looking for more books of a similar nature to Fitzpatrick’s work, then the read-alike lists on Goodreads are pure gold! ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ and ‘Along for the Ride’ by by Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen respectively are excellent choices as are ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’ and the rest of the Monty Leo series by Morgan Matson. Whilst nothing can quite compare to the unique voice of Huntley Fitzpatrick, I hope these recommendations will help to fill the void left by the two connected novels by this incredible author.
3 Answers2025-11-11
While there is no sequel to ‘Bad Mormon’ yet, I’ll keep an eye on the author’s social media for now. Since memoirs are rarely continued in the form of sequels, I wouldn’t mind returning to this world, which is presented in the form of part-confessional and part-dark comedy. The author deals with heavy topics, and they are funny. It’s not an easy thing to do. Until then, I’ll just keep recommending this remarkable and funny book to everyone who will get punched in the feels reading it, but will also laugh.
10 Answers2025-08-22
And if this were really happening, the lawyers involved would be legendary, hopefully good. This kid was sent to a labor camp in the middle of the desert for a pair of shoes he didn't steal. The warden is making a manicure with rattlesnake venom. A juvenile detainee is claiming a treasure that's been lost for decades. All of this is a stylized narrative. The truth to the story is that there are times when you have to stand up for yourself. You have to dig. And that's not just a metaphor. You have to dig. Sometimes you have to dig a hole and then get back out of it. But in order to break this kind of cycle you have to make your own luck.
4 Answers2025-05-05
No. ‘Mort’ is a single work. However, Mort and Death both appear in ‘Reaper Man’ which explores Death in greater depth than ‘Mort’. Although ‘Reaper Man’ is not a direct sequel to ‘Mort’, it does return to the same world and characters, and hence is recommended to fans of ‘Mort’ for more Pratchett wit and insight.
10 Answers2025-08-20
Even more beautiful are the little actions which show the huge change within Stan. When he first arrives, he’s intimidated by Mr. Sir. By the end, Stan catches the sunflower seed bag that Mr. Sir throws at him without so much as flinching. His vocabulary changes too. Instead of calling the other boys by their nicknames, he now refers to them by their full names as Hector Zeroni. The Warden, once almost revered by Stan, is no longer seen as legitimate. Even the way that Stan walks has changed. We see him trudging along when he’s walking into camp, but when he’s leaving with his suitcase, he’s striding along purposefully. And there’s the laughter – loud and carefree, unlike the laughter we see earlier in the book. Sachar does a beautiful job of illustrating this huge change within Stan, a change that is manifested through his actions. We don’t need to read some long, in depth speech to realize that he’s changed – we can clearly see the change through the way that he holds himself, interacts with others, and even takes control of small situations.
9 Answers2025-06-25
That looks and sounds like a pretty intense storyline – way out of my area of expertise, especially considering I mostly read science fiction. This looks like a pretty hardcore action-packed story. I may have to read this one.