And I just ran across Zane's Trace, where the description reads, in part, "Zane Guesswind has a tough life: a family riven by mental illness, substance abuse and suicide, plus his own epilepsy and grief. To exorcise his demons, Zane writes obsessively with permanent markers on his bedroom walls and later on the dashboard of the 1969 Barracuda he commandeers and drives to Zanesville, Ohio. There he plans to shoot himself at his mother's graveside with the heirloom pistol she used to kill herself."
I know what these books need: MORE HEADS IN JARS.
I didn't like Message Books much as a kid, so I avoided them when I could. My favorite authors were Daniel Pinkwater and Gordon Korman, which probably explains a lot. I am currently sad that Korman's latest, Schooled seems to be about a boy raised on a commune who is forced to integrate into a regular school, and whose description sounds a lot like a Message Book and not like Korman's normal insanity.
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Fri, Jan. 18th, 2008 12:20 am (UTC)I know what these books need: MORE HEADS IN JARS.
I didn't like Message Books much as a kid, so I avoided them when I could. My favorite authors were Daniel Pinkwater and Gordon Korman, which probably explains a lot. I am currently sad that Korman's latest, Schooled seems to be about a boy raised on a commune who is forced to integrate into a regular school, and whose description sounds a lot like a Message Book and not like Korman's normal insanity.