The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Transall Saga
Book Review: BEST BOOK 5 Stars
Anyone who does not give this 5 stars did not read the book!!! This book is soooo good i cant even explain it!!!!!Book Review: Bad ending, needs sequel!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
Overall this was a good book but the ending ruined it all!!! In the future the world was ravaged by a disease and 70 percent of the world died. With all of the great forces in the world destroyed all that was left was terrorists that launched nuclear bombs at will and people and the planet were never the same. In the end he develops a cure so all the people he met in the future would never have existed!!! So i say that Gary Paulsen should do what he did with hatchet: write a sequel pretending that the end never happened. Brian's winter turned out great. So if you agree with do the same.Book Review: Best from Paulsen
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought this book was a great survival story. It had sudden twists to the end of it. It always had you guessing what he was talking about. When I read this book I disliked reading entirely. This actually brought hope to me. It has such good detail you can practically visualize what the author is talking about. How he killed the massive creature or how he destroyed the evil enemy at the end. This book made you wonder what really was this "dimensional portal" linked too. A new world, another dimension, universe, the past, or even the future? You didn't know how Mark was going to survive in the jungle. He had to scavenger and make friends out of nowhere. A unexplored and unfamiliar world to him. This was actually a great, exciting, and an awesome thriller in my opinion. Until later in the story you realize this is the future not the past or another world. And the supreme king of the "future" Earth is a escaped convict from the 1960's who found the portal in a canyon and unknowingly went inside it because he knew he was going to be captured at any second from the man hunt being held in the state. Since he knew about the advanced technology in the past compared to the present in the "future" he ruled quickly and swiftly. No one knew where he came from but Mark found out what truely happened and how he came to rise in power. He was sort of a communist not letting other people discover those technologies to improve their weapons to create a rebellion against his rule. Not knowing what had happened in the past he still tries to slay the prisoner, knowing that he'll help the people in the present time. In my conclusion to this book I believed it was one of Paulsen's greatest masterpieces of writing. I've read The Hatchet and it compares greatly to this book. It has the same concept and I rate The Transall Sage a 5/5 *Stars* Great book! I recommend this to anyone who loves to read adventure books.Book Review: Buy This Book
Summary: 5 Stars
My boyfriend gave me this book with the words, "I read this when I was in like, 8th grade, and loved it. But don't think it's a kids book...just read it, okay?" I was skeptical but so glad he finally coaxed me into starting. This book is GREAT. The characterization is excellent, there's a perfect amount of side characters, description of the world, action, to keep everything flowing but you're still engaged in the thing. Really, a great book; I'd recommend it especially if you have a tween boy who you want to coax into reading. The only complaint I have is the ending--the last fifty pages, at least--felt really rushed and I was conflicted over the ending. That's not to say it isn't suitable for the book, because it's a perfect ending, but it's because you're so invested... well, you'll see, because you just HAVE to read it.Book Review: Certainly not a typical children's/YA book, but cool!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a non-humourous book by Gary Paulsen, which seems to be an exception to most of his other books. It's very dramatic and I loved it when I read it the first time. Certain parts of it remind me of the Lord of the Rings books, especially toward the end of the book. It has a creepy conclusion too, a world destroyed by disease and then rebuilt from the ashes.Trevor