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tesch18 's review for:
Onion John
by Joseph Krumgold
DID NOT FINISH
27 August 2020:
I tried reading this as a kid & only got part-way through. (I think to the part where Onion John mentions leaving a can of oil in the back of church so he could have some holy oil, or something like that?)
At any rate, I'd owned a copy for years & thought that I should give it another go. But alas, I couldn't get into it. The voice of the novel was intriguing -- the narrator was obviously a 12 yr old boy, but it felt like a much older voice than that. So that was somewhat compelling?
But as a whole, I didn't see the point. I couldn't get very far this 2nd time, and ultimately I decided to dnf after a few chapters. Maybe it was Very Good when it was published in 1959, but I don't particularly see any reason to continue.
I tried reading this as a kid & only got part-way through. (I think to the part where Onion John mentions leaving a can of oil in the back of church so he could have some holy oil, or something like that?)
At any rate, I'd owned a copy for years & thought that I should give it another go. But alas, I couldn't get into it. The voice of the novel was intriguing -- the narrator was obviously a 12 yr old boy, but it felt like a much older voice than that. So that was somewhat compelling?
But as a whole, I didn't see the point. I couldn't get very far this 2nd time, and ultimately I decided to dnf after a few chapters. Maybe it was Very Good when it was published in 1959, but I don't particularly see any reason to continue.