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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Summary: light and pleasing however not teasing
Comments: Two siblings, a boy and a girl, run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum of New York, where they become involved in trying to find out whether a new statue was the work of Michelangelo. In the end they do find out by talking to the person who sold the statue to the museum.
So there you have it: easy to read, easy to summarize, pleasing and somewhat diverting. It's no brain teaser, though, it did not really draw me in, I did not feel captivated by the language or the story - I cared what happened to the characters however in a detached way, sort of like you wish your neighbors well however do not ponder too much on it.
I do not really understand why this is supposed to be a classic: I mean it's not bad, however common: can it really compare with something like Pinocchio, or Alice? It's too much of a light souffle for that, in my humble opinion. |
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
Summary: Just ew
Comments: I had to read this in 5th grade and it was torture throughout. The story was great however the way it was written gave no true human reactions and it was a normal book with a weird displaced mistery put into it. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: From the Mixed-Up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler
Comments: I received 8 of 10 individual orders of this used novel within a few days and the other2before the deadline. The quality of the novels was overall great - perfect covers and slight yellowing. I had1query from a vendor for which I received a prompt reply from the vendor and from Amazon. I am pleased. |
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Summary: If I'd Read This Book Forty Years Ago...
Comments: As I child I would have wanted to be Claudia: brave enough to run away, worldly enough to live in a museum, and smart enough to figure out the "cupid" mystery. however having read it only a few days ago, as an adult, I'd like to have written some of lines author E.L. Konigsburg attrihowevered to her narrator Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Here are2examples:
"Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, however there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around."
"...Some days you must learn a great deal. however you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches ething. And you can feel it inside you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, however never really feel anything with them. It's hollow."
Note: Find a new edition that contains Ms. Konigsburg's Afterword. you will like her discussion of things around and in the museum that have change, or stayed the same, since she wrote the book. |
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Summary: Still great after all these years
Comments: I feel funny reviewing books that are older than I am (this was published in 1967), however I will share what I thought. I thought this was a cute story, and I do not know how I missed this1when I was young...it seems like it would have been just my style!! And, except for a few details (such as how much things cost and the fact that Claudia wears a petticoat), it doesn't feel like it's outdated. I thought a couple of parts were particularly funny, like when Claudia and Jamie find an unopened candy bar on the ground, and Jamie wants to eat it. Claudia says "You better not touch it. It's probably poisoned or filled with marijuana, so you will eat it and become either dead or a dope addict." How funny!! |
