Well written, a very different sort of story.

We, in Year 8 think that Holes is fantastic, Ali likes: When Stanley drove the car into a hole. Amrit and Wes like: When Zero tells Mr Pendanski to 'DIG!!!' Sonny likes: When Stanley is hit by the flying shoes. Frankie likes: The end because everything works out good. Siobhan likes: When Stanley and Zero find the treasure. Chris likes: When the Warden is trying to steal the treasure. Mark likes: When Stanley taught Zero to read. Ruun likes: When Stanley went to find Zero.

love your book

Way better than the movie

So many twists and turns, I had to read this book twice to get the whole story. Brillant plot reverting to the awful 'Criminal Camp' innocent Stanley goes to from the sad story of western criminal Kissin' Kate Barlow, eventually the plots tie in together and Santey finds out what they are really doing at Camp Green Lake and ends the family bad luck curse.

this is lovely book with a lovely movie

This is one of my all-time favorite books. I've read it a million times, and I never got bored of it. The plot was good, and unpredictable.

Excellent work from Louis Sachar.

this book best book i read

very very very great book.

Now this is a good book!Totally sucked me in and spat me out at the end, i was up all night thinking about this book. Pity i havent seen the movie, bugger that.

Good story

wonderful wierd funny scary sad interesting cool terrific amazing awsome great exciting

What's wrong with this ratings list? Why is this book at #71 of 96, when it SHOULD be close to 60 places higher? I did not expect this from the author of the entertaining-but-silly Wayside School series, and I was astounded. The boys at Green Lake, despite being juvenile delinquents, are very easy to relate to. Sachar portrays them as human, and not as junior thug hoodlums, and that's a fairly unique perspective (not only in books, but in the rest of the world). An incredible read for elementary students, and I still pick it up to read it again on occasion.

I think this was the first in a string of really good books that seemed to get kids into reading again (along with "Harry Potter" but this and some other novel I've forgotten about came before that whole hype). "Holes" a quirky story, I found it entertaining.

I can't belive nobody has rated this hardley!!!!!

Well written, but too weird for me.