Amazing and Death Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman

by Paul Zindel

Book Overview

On his fifteenth birthday, precocious Eugene Dingman begins the amazing and death-defying diary of his summer spent as a waiter at a ritzy Adirondack resort. "Zindel masterfully captures the mixture... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553277685
• ISBN13: 9780553277685
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Starfire
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Give Eugene a Try; He's worth it!

A rather skeptical reader myself, I was reluctant to pick up Eugene's diary. I thought it would contain another outrageous narrator who you can't understand or comprehend. I absolutly hate authors that create narrators who are nothing like teens today. How wrong I was about Eugene! Eugene's Diary is full or honesty and integrity. His diary tells the tale or his original, yet suprisingly normal summer, in which Eugene falls hopelessly in love, craves the attentions of his absent father, learns to tolerate his oblivious mother, befriends an Indian worker, and in turn, learns the difficulty in loving himself. Eugene's sincerity and his promise 'not to lie to his diary despite how terrible things turn out' wins the reader's admiration. More than once I found myself grinning with happinnes and sighing with embarrasment as Eugene went through another 'amazing and death defying' moment. In the end, I think you'll find that Eugene has found love for the right person after all, himself!

Amazing and Death Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman

If you won't to read a good book then you need to read Amazing and Death Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman. This isn't an ordinary love story. Eugene is a nonentity with a lot of mettle. His apprehension dosen't stop him from showing is true feelings. And you woulden't believe what happens to Eugene it's vehement.

Great!!!

This book is hilarious, sad, and very strange. It is pure Paul Zindel and I loved it.