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Title: Parasite Pig by William Sleator ISBN: 0-525-46918-4 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Better Than the First
Comment: Barney, the sixteen-year-old star of Interstellar Pig, is back. He is playing the game with friends. The game is safe. It is not the real thing. But before he knows it, Barney is sucked into a real game once again.
This time he has a parasite living in his brain that can control his actions to a degree. The parasite and at least one of the aliens wants Barney to travel to a planet of man-eating crabs. To make matters worse, Barney also has to watch out for another player; a girl he really likes.
Barney must combat his parasite, escape from giant crabs, avoid being killed by other players, and somehow make his way home. But will the Piggy let him?
A very nice sequel that times up some loose ends from the first book. However, I would have liked some explanation as to how the Americans and Chinese got to the planet of giant crabs. That detail just stuck in my mind the rest of the book. But still, it was a quick-paces and enjoyable book. Certainly anyone who enjoyed the first one would enjoy this one as well.
Rating: 2
Summary: I don't get it
Comment: I've read enough of Sleator to be excited to find this book, but what a disappointment. If you've not read the first & great book, Interstellar Pig, or if you read it so long ago that it's not fresh, then the new book Parasite Pig just doesn't cut it. There are many references to the first book (something I find annoying: when a new title can't stand on its own as a full story). The writing is simple--I felt like Sleator was taking shortcuts, using fairly unimaginative adjectives to quickly advance a plot rather than to thicken the atmosphere. Yeah, if you're a sci fi buff you'll enjoy his techno speak and his creative story. But it's not a book to enjoy for the language; his writing feels like a means to the end.
Rating: 5
Summary: Adds action based on the original plot
Comment: Fans of the author's prior Interstellar Pig will find Parasite Pig a suitable sequel: it not only adds action based on the original plot; it goes further in explaining the purposes and dilemmas of the Pig who controls other forces in the universe. Barney is grounded after his summer face-off with a dangerous space game; but when he's kidnapped by aliens, it's danger revisited in this absorbing story.
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Title: Interstellar Pig by William Sleator ISBN: 0140375953 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Boy Who Reversed Himself by William Sleator ISBN: 0140389652 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: House of Stairs by William Sleator ISBN: 0140345809 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Marco's Millions by William Sleator ISBN: 0142302171 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Singularity by William Sleator ISBN: 0140375988 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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