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Title: Dancing Carl by Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0-689-80410-5 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Dancing Carl
Comment: Dancing Carl is a book about two boys who meet a mysterious man named Carl. They live in a small town, McKinley, Minnesota, that revolves around winter. They have a gravel pit that they flood and freeze. After it is frozen, they divide it into smaller arenas for hockey, kids skating, music skating, and freestyle. Carl takes over Stan Johnson's job of deciding when to flood the gravel. He takes over the warming house, along with the rinks. He also has a strange power that he uses to solve many problems and also has the ability to skate on the ice in sneakers. Willy and Marsh think there's more to Carl than just the insane, drunk, depressed bum that the townspeople see so they decide to check it out for themselves.
I think this book was a good book. Although it is dull in some places, it gets interesting in the end. Usually, the plot jumps around at the end of chapters but it stays still in the end. First you have to understand that Carl is thought as insane and some of the townspeople aren't exactly glad for him to live in the warming house. " 'I guess he's been doing some pretty weird stuff. Dancing or moving or something. And he's taken over the rinks like it was his town or something...' "
Willy and Marsh find out about Carl, about his life and his power. If Marsh had not brought the B-17, an army fighter jet, model then Carl wouldn't have gone over the edge. He truly goes insane and, using his power, reenacts what had happened in his past. Willy and Marsh see why Carl has all the beat-up army gear and why he is all washed up. If it weren't for Helen, Carl may have been really gone mental.
Helen appeared one day in a Russian square hat and the same type clothing as Carl's flight jacket. This is my favorite part in which Carl performs several dances dedicated to Helen on the ice rink, with the entire town watching. I don't like the end, though, when Marsh learns that Carl and Helen move and suffer from many problems. "And I heard many things still later. I heard that Carl went crazy and should have been put it the state hospital and I heard that Helen had some part of her brain hurt many years before and I heard they moved into a house together and shared government checks. I heard they couldn't be married because of something in Carl's life and I heard even later that Carl died of drink and Helen had to go to a special home to live and all of this happened in some other town they moved to and none of it, not one single thing of what I heard, makes any difference at all."
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful story
Comment: I love Gary Paulsen! This book is such a sweet and sad story. I think this is one of his best books ever.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not just dancing....
Comment: A friend of mine, I'll call him Carl, SR, gave me this book to read. He said to me, "it's about the dance man, the dance...." So I read it. It is about more than just the dance. It is about love, deception, revenge....all centered around this guy, Dancing Carl.
If you like the book "Dancing Carl" you may also like "Bedtime for BoBo", "The Tird Burglar", "What Color is Your Boxers", and "Scott M's Dance Tutorial".
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Title: Tracker by Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0689804121 Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0440227194 Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books Pub. Date: 12 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Rumble Fish (Laurel-Leaf Contemporary Fiction) by S. E. Hinton ISBN: 0440975344 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 November, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: DOGSONG by Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0689827008 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books by Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0440407125 Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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