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Holes by Louis Sachar

31 reviews

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Hate crime, Bullying, Gun violence, Confinement, Murder, and Racism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Medical content, Physical abuse, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Animal death, and Grief

Minor: Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, and Gaslighting

obviousidentity's review

funny inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Bullying

Moderate: Racism and Fatphobia

katharina90's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

I enjoyed the dark humor and surprisingly serious topics in this middle grade classic, which include the absurdity of our punitive "justice" system, racism, illiteracy and houselessness.

The novel is pretty short and wraps up very quickly, leaving the reader to "fill in the holes" at the end. With a slightly higher page count some of the themes could have been explored a little more.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Confinement, Child abuse, and Racism

Minor: Racial slurs

kate_has_book_thoughts's review

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Hate crime, and Racism

Moderate: Abandonment, Body shaming, Violence, Death, Animal death, Sexual harassment, and Fatphobia

Minor: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

directorpurry's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Bullying, Racism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Gun violence

myk_yeah's review

adventurous dark relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

So enjoyable, I read this as a kid and remembered liking it and the movie. Upon reflection as an adult I realized it's about the prison industrial complex so gave it a reread and had the best time. Adventurous, with lovable characters and a true-to-life theme.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Slavery, Bullying, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

Minor: Abandonment

The book features children at a fictionalized, but still realistic, forced labor camp. So the content warnings should be heeded, just know it is aimed at a child audience so although the subjects are dark they are not covered in a heavy-handed or adult way.

orchidlilly's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Bullying

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Classism, Abandonment, Death, Fatphobia, Racism, Physical abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol, Ableism, Animal death, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Animal cruelty

sweetchocolatez's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Hate crime, Racism, and Torture

Moderate: Fatphobia, Abandonment, and Grief

Minor: Death and Vomit

carolined314's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

A tall tale about tall tales, in a juvenile detention facility, with a real-life curse, a weird rock formation, buried treasure, and all kinds of other things. Some fatphobia.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Fatphobia and Bullying

Minor: Abandonment

asourceoffiction's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

What a strange, unique, occasionally horrifying book! The story is so bizarre but played so normally that you just accept that this is part of our everyday world. It gets very dark on occasion (brilliantly so; the Warden is such an insidious presence), but there's genuine warmth and great humour.

I was so invested in the history of Camp Green Lake and I loved all the little revelatory moments where you can see connections forming between the past and present. So many times I would get to a sentence that made me stop and go "oh, I get it now", and every time it made me love it a bit more. It's a fantastic little story, and I'll definitely be checking out the film and Sachar's other books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Confinement