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In all fairness, I would have loved this book as a kid.
As an adult, I don't enjoy bodily function jokes, names based on bodily functions, and poo nearly as much as when I was a kid. Most of the time, not at all. That being said, this book has some fun humor and I laughed a good part of the time reading it. I just didn't love it.
What I liked: Hiccup was a great character. He was a nice guy in a not so nice world. And he was very believably a kid, not an adult in a kid body. I liked the dragon ch ...more
As an adult, I don't enjoy bodily function jokes, names based on bodily functions, and poo nearly as much as when I was a kid. Most of the time, not at all. That being said, this book has some fun humor and I laughed a good part of the time reading it. I just didn't love it.
What I liked: Hiccup was a great character. He was a nice guy in a not so nice world. And he was very believably a kid, not an adult in a kid body. I liked the dragon ch ...more
Jan 08, 2012
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This is the first book in the How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell. We've watched the movie and our girls were excited to learn that the movies were based on these books.
When we were getting ready to watch the second movie, I borrowed the first two books in the series to serve as a bit of a refresher. But neither of our girls really got into them - they were disappointed that the books were so different from the movies.
This is one reason I like to read the book before I watch the ...more
When we were getting ready to watch the second movie, I borrowed the first two books in the series to serve as a bit of a refresher. But neither of our girls really got into them - they were disappointed that the books were so different from the movies.
This is one reason I like to read the book before I watch the ...more
Like so many, I came to this book after seeing the movie, though I only watched it once. So while I noticed that the two seemed to massively diverge, I wasn't particularly heart broken about the Hollywood turnaround. Accordingly, I will attempt to review the book based on its own merits, but there will be some bias.
The book is definitely written for the middle school crowd, and I recommended it to my 4th and 6th grade boys. It's a quick and easy read, full of jokes and comments your kid will lik ...more
The book is definitely written for the middle school crowd, and I recommended it to my 4th and 6th grade boys. It's a quick and easy read, full of jokes and comments your kid will lik ...more
First note, this is not an adaption of the movie, but the original tale. That being said, it has some of the fun of the film, but not all the laughs. It would be a good reccomendation for the 9-13 crowd.
Very imaginative story about a young viking boy who doesn't quite fit in.
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Completely different from the movie! I'm not crazy about either, but it is amazing how much they changed for the movie!
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I *LOVED* it. Read by David Tennant... *swoon*
Feb 22, 2010
Brittney
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