The Way We Roll
Scott Gardner
Will lives under the bowling alley and pushes trolleys for a day-job. His life involves pumping iron at the gym so he can have a shower, and feeding off Japanese sushi. Julian eats takeaway and has a sexy girlfriend who hangs out with him in the ‘burbs when he isn’t pushing trolleys. The two boys and their worlds are distant, but their trolley-pushing pushes them together too.
The twist in this novel is that you don’t know there is a twist. I’m really not sure how long Will’s situation has been the way it is, but you get the snap-shot of when things are really changing. Will is very skittish, but cute all the same. Julian is not cute. He’s just annoying and pushy and a great friend.
This novel was laugh out loud funny. Literally. I needed to stop several times to read it out loud to my partner so that she could also appreciate the humour. That being said, the humour was of a fart / inappropriate variety, but if you can’t laugh about some of these things, you need to anyway!
I’m not sure that Julian running from the goat is a major part of the novel (as suggested by the blurb), but being a friend or family is really important. This novel moves super quickly and there’s hardly time for character development. Who cares about character development when there is a fast-acting plot?
I’d strongly recommend this novel to relutant teenage readers. In fact, I think I enjoyed it enough to give it 5 stars. It’s rare that a novel makes me laugh so hard, or need to share so much of it while I’m reading it.
Elspeth goes from a lonely loner to someone who dares to have friends. Funny how losing everything seems to do that to a person. She progresses rapidly from someone only concerned about saving herself to someone who can and will help others. It’s that transformation that brought me back to this novel over and over again.
So you’ve seen the movie six dozen times (or maybe seven dozen, if you’re my age and it played on the weekend TV every week). But the book is the best, and the two movies don’t do justice to Roald Dahl’s world. Something that this novel has over the films is that you get to see illustrations of the four other children after they have been returned to their approximate original selves.
I forget how much I like this novel every time I put it away on the shelf, and then when I pick it up I just can’t stop reading it. It’s fascinating to think that special extensions of senses are just evolution. Let me evolve that way! I wish I had abilities like this. But I wouldn’t want to be able to smell the rotting meat of infected people.
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