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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780440917403
ISBN number: 0440917409
Label: Laurel Leaf
Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 224
Printing Date: March 01, 1983
Publishing house: Laurel Leaf
Age index: Young Adult
Release Date: October 15, 1973
Sale Popularity Level: 61934
Studio: Laurel Leaf
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'An exciting novel of suspense, based on a fight to the finish between an honest and courageous young man and a cynical business tycoon who believes that anything can be had for a price.'--Horn Book. An ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults, Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Writers Award, A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year, New York Public Library--Books for the Teen Age.
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I won't say it was a "Eminently engaging and hard to put down" because I don't work for a newspaper column. But I will say this: I read a lot, and this book was one of the top five I've ever read. It's 224 pages, to the point, and worth the time. Bad A$$, simply F-in Bad A$$
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This book is a very great book. Its about to men that go out in the desert to hunt what they call "big horn". The two men are Madec and Ben. One day Madec shoots a old man. Ben wants to tell the authorites but Madec will not let him do it. So Madec decides to make Ben go into the desert with nothing but him and his undergarmnets. Ben would now go and try to find old camps in the desert. One camp he found was the old mans. He got one thing from that camp, a wallet and a slingshot. Well this might help Ben. But it might not. Read the book if you want to find out what happens with Ben and Madec.
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The book Deathwatch by Rob White is an amazing book about a young man named Ben. Ben is in his early 20's that needs money for college. He lives in a town only a couple miles from the desert and knows that desert like the back of his hand. When a rich man named Madec comes to go big game hunting and his guide has other plans it becomes Ben's opportunity to make money. Madec asks Ben to then be his guide.
When madec shoots a man and kills him Ben goes off on his own in the desert because Madec has 2 guns and does not trust Ben. Madec also makes him go on this perilous journey so that Ben does not tell the authorities about the mans death! This is just the beginning of Ben's trip through the desert. To find out how his journey ends read Deathwatch.
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I very first read this book in the 7th or 8th grade and I read it about four more times before I left school. In fact, I remember how the book was signed out to me, then a buddy, then me, then him, over and over. It's honestly quite a thriller with a story that, while out there, let's face it, we've all heard crazy non-fiction news stories that are worse or more bizarre than a rich pig business man setting a young boy loose in the desert so he can be the prey in the ultimate hunt. All I'll say is, the businessman, I forget his name now, has, like, a 30.06, while the boy has a slingshot.
I worked for Barnes and Noble in Downtown Boston in the early 90's and always kept this 180 or so page-turner as a "face out" book on the shelves, and it never failed to sell. If you're looking for some relatively tame (within today's contexts) suspense, excitement and death-defying action, this is the book (what I mean is there is no swearing or "adult situations". I'm ordering two copies; one for my myself and my boy when he reaches 11 or so, and one for my nephew who doesn't believe there's anything worth reading out there. He's got a twin brother, and I'm getting him a copy of The Outsiders". So, there you go, I'll compare it to "The Outsiders"... and that means a lot!
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Robb White, Deathwatch (Doubleday, 1972)
When I was a kid-- say, from about three years old until high school-- I did a lot more rereading than I do now. In fact, there were some books I read and re-read so much that I ended up having to buy copies to replace those I'd worn down. I think everyone does this with a kids' picture book or two, but there were three novels I did it with in fifth and sixth grade. One of them was Wilson Rawls' Where the Red Fern Grows. I think I went through three copies of that one. The other two were by Robb White, and they were Up Periscope and Deathwatch. When you're ten years old, this is just about the best thing ever. When you're thirty-nine, not so much, but it didn't lose nearly as much impact as I expected it to reading it all these years later.
The story: a local boy named Ben, looking to make money for college, offers to escort a city-dweller named Madec on a bighorn hunt. As the book opens, Madec claims to see horns over a ridge. Ben doesn't. Madec takes the shot anyway. When they get there and find out when Madec really shot, the two get into the kind of argument that has Madec forcing Ben to try and survive in the desert with no clothing, no food and no water.
It's the little details that give White's writing the power it has. Even all these years later, I still remembered the smeared-lipstick passage with almost perfect clarity, and the "bird guano" passages. (This was my very first exposure to the word "guano" and I had to look it up.) The story definitely pushes the limits of disbelief-- a dehydrated, hallucinating Ben is capable of pulling off physical feats that would try the abilities of an athlete in a number of passages-- but the pacing, the character development (impressive that other characters get development when Ben takes center stage most of the time), and description are dead-on. I'm not quite as obsessed with it as I was when I was ten, but it's still a cracking good read. ****
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