Fuzzy Mud

Bei diesem Buch habe ich sowohl einige positive als auch negative Aspekte anzumerken: Zuerst einmal, fand ich die Idee der Geschichte wirklich gut und das Thema welches dahinter steckt und bin auch der Meinung, dass die Geschichte eigentlich sehr gut zu lesen war, wenn man erst einmal drin ist. Leider habe ich einige Zeit gebraucht um reinzukommen, was unter anderem daran lag, dass ich durch den häufigen Perspektiven Wechsel oft nicht so genau wusste, was gerade passiert und da das Buch zusätzlich noch auf Englisch ist, war es dann noch einmal schwerer, die Handlung zu verstehen. Allerdings muss ich auch sagen, dass es bis jetzt eines der besten Schulbücher ist, die ich gelesen habe und dass es auf jeden Fall einige spannende Stelle hatte.

As ever so often, my colleague (a fan of Sachar herself) made me have a closer look at this for our English section at the shop. And as always, when new books for this section arrive, I had an even closer look and read a few pages to see whether it could be of private interest. And then I bought it. It was even better than at first glance. The book very cleverly introduces the (young) reader to topics such as genetic manipulation, its dangers and its aims in the form of a story told from the point of view of likewise male and female "peers" so that there should not be much of a problem with finding identification figures here. There is a big corporation with a laboratory deep inside a wood, grown-ups not listening, teenagers saving the day - and, of course, the Fuzzy Mud... Personally, I very much sympathized with Tamaya, the female main character, because (to be honest) I was rather like her in many respects at that age. She, a "goodie two-shoes", is teamed with Marshall and Chad, the last the Nemesis of the first, more by chance than choice to (accidentally) bring to light a scandal. The storyline of the teenagers is supplemented by excerpts from court files from which the reader learns about the details the three can't possibly uncover and thus gains a more complete picture. The bottom line of the whole book might be: "To mean well can be worse than to do well."

As ever so often, my colleague (a fan of Sachar herself) made me have a closer look at this for our English section at the shop. And as always, when new books for this section arrive, I had an even closer look and read a few pages to see whether it could be of private interest. And then I bought it. It was even better than at first glance. The book very cleverly introduces the (young) reader to topics such as genetic manipulation, its dangers and its aims in the form of a story told from the point of view of likewise male and female "peers" so that there should not be much of a problem with finding identification figures here. There is a big corporation with a laboratory deep inside a wood, grown-ups not listening, teenagers saving the day - and, of course, the Fuzzy Mud... Personally, I very much sympathized with Tamaya, the female main character, because (to be honest) I was rather like her in many respects at that age. She, a "goodie two-shoes", is teamed with Marshall and Chad, the last the Nemesis of the first, more by chance than choice to (accidentally) bring to light a scandal. The storyline of the teenagers is supplemented by excerpts from court files from which the reader learns about the details the three can't possibly uncover and thus gains a more complete picture. The bottom line of the whole book might be: "To mean well can be worse than to do well."