Martyn Pig

by Kevin Brooks

Book Overview

Marty Pig tiene, a sus catorce años, una vida complicada: se burlan de su nombre, tiene un padre alcohólico y está enamorado de su vecina, que tiene novio. Unos días antes de Navidad, se encuentra con... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439507529
• ISBN13: 9780439507523
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Push
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 11 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 10

Customer Reviews

Great Story

The book Martyn Pig is very intriguing and suspenseful. It will knock your tube socks off. It is about a young laddy with an intoxicated daddy. One day the young Mr. Pig makes the mistake of yelling at his drunken father. Martin shoves the drunken man to avoid getting hit by him. The drunk loses his balance and hits his cranium on the fireplace and perishes. After this the lad makes a further error of not calling the cops. This leads to a quest with Alex his neighbor who he secretly admires. They try to get the drunk's corpse out of the house without getting caught. But they have many barriers to cross. You will be astounded and stuck to the pages of the book. Get ready to embark on an astonishing journey!

MartynPig

This book MartynPig was an alsome and outstanding book. This book is a must read book. Also this book could be read by children of all ages. In th story, there are some parts that are funny and other parts that are very very interesting. But most of all, this book is a little confusing. And that's what I thought about this cool, alsome, and funny story

Martyn Pig -a Masterpiece

Martyn Pig to the Rescue! I was looking for a book to read my students during their weekly library time. I didn't want to bore them with a story about things that could never happen. I saw Martyn Pig, picked it up, and couldn't put it down. I read it to my students and they loved it. They kept asking me to keep reading even after the school bell had rung. It kept my interest and definitely my students'.

A book worth reading through lunch

I love this book! Being a thirteen year old, attending middle school, one of my main priorities is fitting in. And I know that walking around with your nose in a book is not considered cool. But with this book, I ddn't care what people thought, I couldn't put it down!!! Not only was this book suspenseful, thought provoking and humorous, I could relate to it. I could relate to how Martyn thought, his way of organizing information in his head was just so right on target of how my age group thinks, I had to keep checking the back flap to make sure that this wasn't written by a kid.Definitely an amazing book; I already have 5 friends waiting to read it ( not to mention my parents)!!!!! :]

A Classic Noir

Martyn Pig is a noir in the classic sense. Brooks follows in the footsteps of the mystery writers whom he admires extremely well; he knows the genre. The twists and turns in this novel make for a gripping, quick read. Despite its sort of morbid subject matter, it turns out to be surprisingly funny. The reader can relate to the main character on all sorts of levels; this is a kid who's likeable and sort of vulnerable, and though you may think that he's a total idiot at times, you're hoping he gets what he wants in the end. Sort of. This is a book that illustrates that once you make that initial (fateful) decision, the cards fall and you just have to deal with them as they come. The way you handle the fallout shows you who you really are inside.I don't want to go into plot -- it'll just ruin all the suspense!I have a few criticisms: I was confused about where this story took place, at least initially. The main character had a definite British voice and throughout the story uniquely British terms were thrown around: "loverly turkey" and "bloody" and "trolley" and "bloke" and "pub" and on and on. At the same time, the author used "bucks" and dollars, referred to CVS and listened to NPR. It makes this reader wonder if the editors were trying to make the book more readable to the average American teen. If so, why not Americanize everything? Or just leave it completely British? Plenty of books originally published in the U.K. have had great success here, and not only Harry Potter. David Almond's Printz Award winner and the series by Louise Rennison (a sort of Bridget Jones Diary for teens -- also a Printz Honor) to name a few. Please don't insult the intellligence of U.S. teens!Another criticism I had was an error in fact: Brooks has the father's dead body "loosen up" (the affects of rigamortis reversing) after laying around rotting for a few days.And lastly, my edition had several glaring copyedit errors, including part sentences just not being there!But, criticism aside, it remains a great read, one that teens will love.