Author: Louis Sachar
Page Number: 209 pages
Genre: Funny
Rating: 4 out of 5
Overview: Gary Boone knows that he is born to be a really good comedian, but no one actually laughs at his jokes and everyone doubts his jokes! Everyone thinks his jokes are stupid! Then his school has a talent show and suddenly before he knew it, Gary Boone was the first one to sign up for the talent show! But good times don't last- some days before the talent show, his best friend- Angeline suddenly rang up and told him that she has a bad feeling that the talent show will turn up to be a disaster! Would the talent show turn up to be a disaster or would it not and turn into a comedy after all?
Comments: I think this book is very funny and sometimes I laughed at the jokes. But in my opinion, this is a really boring book because it just kept saying how Gary had trouble making friends AND making up jokes for his talent show! This book was written by Louis Sachar, who wrote the book 'Holes' I was quite surprised to believe that he had actually written this book! But still, I think this book has its good ways and that is at the jokes, Louis Sachar had certainly thought a lot of good jokes for this book (if he hadn't found them off a joke book) and he certainly linked them together really well at the part of Gary's part in the talent show. As usual, Louis Sachar made the ending fantastic but I don't understand why Gary cried at the end. I give this book a 4 out of 5 rating because most of the jokes are quite good and it has a happy ending and a moral. I recommend this book to joke lovers but I don't recommend it to people that are very serious! This moral to this book is:
'If you want to do something, no matter if you succeed or not, but you just have to do your best at everything, then you wouldn't be sad anymore.'
I like this book in some ways, though.
