Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #241566 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

A Great Book To Read
Hey, thats one of the best book I've ever read, it is good for teenage, I gave it four stars becauce some parts are confusing and hard to understand; but still it is one of the Books i have ever read. So,I encourage people to read it!
Thanks lot and hope everybody to enjoy reading that Book!!!

A good "teenage" novel
"A teenage novel" - "A novel written for teenagers just like you"- This had already a deterrent effect on me. But "The Pigman" is different. When I started reading, full of suspicion, I got dragged - unwillingly- into its spell.
"The truth and nothing but the truth" - the book begins with an oath. The two narrators high school sophomores John and Lorraine weant to tell their story in what they call a memorial epic. Alternately, the two friends explain their situation, how they don't like school and have problems with their parents and with themselves. Doing prank calls in their free time, they get Mr Piganti on the line, and at first pretending to be charity people, the youths and the old man become friends. They nickname him the "Pigman", as he collects all sorts of pigs.
The novels language is, given the fact that two students tell the story, not very formal, but it's still natural. Especially the change of narrator gives a deep insight of the thoughts and emotions of the two main characters and about the development of the relationship with Mr Pignati. Tension is aroused and by using many images the author makes it interesting to read.
It's a sad story, but the themes like responsibility, trust, relationships between the old and the young and becoming adultsa would indeed interest young adults. It's a good book, so why only four stars? Well, it's just that it's not the best book I've ever read (there's still lord of the riongs to compete with*g*).
But don't let yourself get deterrd by "tenage novel" and read it. It'll be worth it.

Great - really makes you think
When I read this I was about thirteen and it made me think deeply about the shallow stuff in all the best ways. Two kids make friends with a lonely old man, and everyone gets a great ride. Touching, funny, thoughtful, original and more than anything good hearted, this is a really great rites of passage sort of story.