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Well it’s no Book Thief.Also, very unfair treatment of mushrooms throughout.
Just howl, Cameron. Howl your heart out.....I do understand this. I've felt this deep inside my heart.I was praying for Cameron all the time. That bloody Rebecca...... kk.... not her fault.I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realized the person I was waiting for was myself....
The Underdog is the first in the Wolfe Brothers series by Australian author, Markus Zusak. The audio version is read by Stig Wemyss. Cameron Wolfe, aged fifteen, knows he is a dirty boy. After all, “….. all young boys are pretty disgusting, like beasts. Maybe the challenge was to somehow rise above it…..”Cameron is a bit of a loner: he and his brother Ruben keep getting themselves into trouble, Cameron has a bit of sense (but not a lot), he doesn’t have a girl (his hair is thick any furry and st...
Ordinarily, if someone said “Hey, would you like to spend a few days in the mind of a 15 year old boy?” I’d emphatically say: “No thanks,” or at a stretch, “Maybe, can I take hand sanitiser?” However, if someone said “Hey, would you like to spend a few days in the mind of a 15 year old boy via Markus Zusak?” I’d say: “Yes! Give it to me now!” No one actually said that, but have acquired all three books in Zusak’s Underdog series, and thus this week I spent some time in the mind of Cameron Wolfe:...
Underdog was Markus Zusak's debut book. Although it is lacking in the beautiful delicacy and the well thought out plots of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger, it shows that even for a debut book, Zusak had undeniable talent for writing. The writing style was beautiful. The word choice spoke to my heart and really touched me.His mixing of poetry and prose was also superb.The characters were relatable, and so SO real. Where was he a bit lacking?The plot.It wasn't that there was no plot. It was
Zusak in a different vein...I think teen boys would relate best to this book. Many parts dealt with Cameron's dreams...maybe a few too many dreams for me, otherwise I liked the book.
3.75 starsI picked this up at the library on a whim, it looked short and something I could read in under two hours on one of the library’s armchairs. Having read The Book Thief, I had high expectations of this book. It was very different to his latter novels but it did not let me down. Two hours well spent.The mind of a 15 year old boy is a weird place to be. However, I really enjoyed the simplicity of the story line and the depths the author went to explore the conscience and reality of a male
Markus Zusak's first book. Bloody excellent. I want to climb inside his fiction.
I liked this book a lot! Some things in it I didn't really appreciate, but over all I liked it! I love brother relationships in books, and that's what first made me pick this up at the library. :)
Very good. Not as great as 'The Bookthief' ofcourse, but then, what book is?
I had to stop reading after 79 pages. Long story short, I couldn't get into the choppy writing style, unnecessary repetition, and the very random correlation of events.Pros:- It's the first novel Markus Zusak has ever published. As someone who adores the Book Thief, it's interesting to see the difference in his previous and later books. - The main characters are refreshingly ordinary. They aren't exceptionally good at something or meant to save the world. - The brother-relationship thus far has
I only picked up this novel because it is by Markus Zuzak, the author of the global phenomenon The Book Thief, which happens to he one of my favourite books. I suspect many others are in a similar boat.Not much of note happens in this story. We follow Cameron Wolfe who is a teenager in Australia. He has a close relationship with his brother, and most of the novel is about their exploits. It is a simple enough tale, with nothing overly poor or brilliant to report on.
This was a good first book by a great author.
Before Zusak gained fame for writing the beloved novel The Book Thief, he wrote a trilogy of books about a young man named Cameron Wolfe: The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, and Getting the Girl. This is his first book and the beginning of that trilogy. It tells the story of the Wolfe brothers from Cameron’s point-of-view. He and his older brother Reuben live in Australia and spend their time getting in trouble and annoying their family members. The novel feels immature in some ways. The style f...
