Max The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Max The Mighty
Book Review: This Was A Good Book
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought that this was a good book. I read the first sequal, Freak the Mighty with my language arts class and I decided I wanted to read the next book, Max the Mighty. I thought this book was worth reading and I enjoyed it. It is about a huge boy named Max and he meets a little girl named Worm and he takes her away from home because her step-father abuses her and her mom. They go on a lot of adventures with a man in a colorful hippy bus. They begin to be really good friends and Worm teaches Max a few things while on their adventures. I won't tell you the end of the book, so you will have to read it for yourself!Book Review: Tommy's Book Review
Summary: 4 Stars
The magnificent story Max the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick is one of the best books ever. I think you would like it if you like adventure fiction and some sadness mixed with some anger.
One of the characters in this book is Max of course. Max is a big overgrown eighth-grader who had a friend that died and now he has no friend, but he will. Another character is Rachel, a.k.a. Worm. Rachel is a small bookworm who also has no friends, and has a mean stepfather called the Undertaker, a.k.a. Martin, who beats up Worm's Mom.
While he is beating Worm's mom, she tells Max to take worm and run away. Worm says that her real father is in Chivalry, Montana, so they start traveling there to get away from the Undetaker, and meet some people on the way.
I thought that Worm would feel bad because her parents are fighting at home and her real father might not even be alive. As for Max, all along the way he is thinking to himself, "What am I doing?" and "Why am I doing this?"
My opinion is that Max should have come out of hiding when the Undertaker made up a lie and said Max kidnapped Worm. So the whole problem of going to Montana would not be a problem, or at least Worm's mom could have said it was the Undertaker that beat her up, not Max, and that she told Max to take Worm and run.
What I liked about this book is that all the way when Worm and Max were going to Montana to look for worm's Dad, Worm always did something along the way that showed that she knew something Max didn't. For example, when Max and Worm just arrived in Chivalry, they were looking in an abandoned saloon and an owl flew out from a shelf, and Worm had this look like she knew something Max didn't.
I didn't like how Worm's mom kept it a secret from the police that it was the Undertaker that beat her up, not Max. I also didn't like how Max just sat in the backyard listening to the Undertaker tell lies about him. If I was Max, I would get out of the backyard and tell the police what happened because the Undertaker was there and the police, so they could get him. I could also use Worm's Mom as a witness.
I think you would like this book if you like Rodman Philbrick's books and if you read Freak the Mighty, which comes before this book. This is one of my favorite books ever; I hope you like this book as much as I do, if not more.
Book Review: Very Awesome!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book has action, adventure, friendship, and all the important stuff needed to make it a good book. Definently a GOOD READ!!Book Review: Very good book
Summary: 4 Stars
Now, after reading two books written by Rodman Philbrick. I have come to a conclusion that Rodman Philbrick is one of the best authors who write about friendship related stories. Rodman Philbrick probably expressed his childhood experiences with friends in his books.
I was recommended by my friend, to read the first book by Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty. After reading that book I really started reading a lot of Rodman Philbrick books. Ex Last Book in the Universe . Freak the Mighty was a heart touching book. I was really connected to the book, as I had read few months after my uncle passed away.
I was introduced to the sequel of Freak the Mighty by a librarian at the local public library. At first I thought it was going to be a horrible book, as I proved the saying "don't judge a book by the cover," wrong. I read the title, Max the Mighty ,as I thought to myself sarcastically "what a creative title." As I read the first page I really liked it, it was the same old Max, "A big dude with a face like the moon and ears that stick out like radar scoops and humongous feet like the abdominal snowman"(P.1). Even though he is a big guy, he is a "real Weenie" (P1). This reminds me of myself. Like the Max I'm a fat, big guy but at heart I am like an elephant scared of an ant. I think this is leads to one of the themes that Rodman Philpbrick presents. Never judge anyone from the physical characteristics; you should always come to conclusions after you have spent time with them. The theme is supported by this because when Max meets Worm in the dark alleys, she is being bullied from these gangsters, and he rescues her from them. But Worm got scared of Max and runs away without thinking to understand him. Then when she meets him again at the park, they talked to each other and they elevate their friendship. Worm first thought that he was bully too, because of his size, but later in the story she uses him as a big brother to help her find her real father. Max and Worm run away from the abusive Undertaker, Worm's stepfather, and the police. Max wants to give Worm to her real father so that she can be safe, but Worm's father lives in Wyoming, which thousands miles away from where he and Worm lives. As Max and Worm travel in search to find Worm's father they encounter unusual people and they also reach Wyoming in weird transportations. To find the big secret that is revealed when they reach Wyoming, read this magnificent book.
This suspenseful, interesting, nail biting book was really fun to read. I really couldn't stop reading. I almost read this book in one sitting, it was that good. I recommend this book to any student in the grades from 8 to 10. People can learn a lot from this book.
Book Review: Wasted opportunity
Summary: 1 Stars
After being charmed by "Freak the Mighty," I was anxious to read this sequel. To say it was a letdown would be an understatement. It's an example of everything to do wrong when writing a sequel. The story, such as it is, is terribly contrived. The action moves along simply because the plot demands it. Worse, the charming voice and character motivation Philbrick created for Max in the first book is wholly absent here. In "Freak," Max's friend Kevin was a strong character, one who stood on his own (no pun intended). The second character in this sequel, Worm, spends nearly all of her time buried in a book. Max has no one to play off of. While it's admirable to promote reading within a book (something I'm trying to accomplish in my own children's books), actually showing the character reading for most of the story effectively removes that character from the story.
I must also address the villain of the piece, Worm's stepfather, the "Undertaker," a cardboard villain who might as well be twirling his mustache and tying helpless damsels to the railroad track. Compare him to the juicy menace of Max's father and his seedy partners in crime of the first book.
All in all, this book that appears to have come from the pen of an amateur than from that of Philbrick. It feels like a bad film novelization, and it trades on the memory of a much better book. What a shame.