Customer Reviews
Definate No-Go!!!! - By: Gabi, 09 Oct 2005 
I heard about this book from a review & people reallly rated it, so i went out & bought it..... complete wast of money!! The book was so uninteresting & the plot never reallly hit a climax, it was just dreary from start to finish, it didn't seem to follow any sort of order.
It is the first David Almond book that I've bought & it certainly didn't impress me, baised on that story i won't be buying another of his books.....Sorry!!
Definate No-Go!!!! - By: Gabi, 09 Oct 2005 I heard about this book from a review & people reallly rated it, so i went out & bought it..... complete wast of money!! The book was so uninteresting & the plot never reallly hit a climax, it was just dreary from start to finish, it seem to follow any sort of order.
It is the first David Almond book that I've bought & it certainly didn't impress me, baised on that story i won't be buying another of his books.....Sorry!!
The fire eaters - By: Eilan, 26 Oct 2004 
It was a good book because the author can discribe very well what alll the characters feel, what they think, whom they love or hate. I loved it because there were a lot of philosophical passages & when I read them, I thought of alll the problems in the book myself. I was incited to think of our own problems now. On the other hand, it was a little bit boring too, there was no action. Sometimes I thought something was going to happen, but it wasn't.
The language was very easy & there were no difficult words.
I would recommend this book to alll the children & teenagers, so that they will learn to be respectful for this earth & for alll the living things.
Pay! You'll not see nowt till you pay! - By: Hatstand, 29 Jun 2004 
This is a wonderful & moving book.
It reallly touched my heartstrings, & is the first Almond book I've read.
It's set in 1962 during the Cuban Missile & centers around the life of young Bobby Burns, an 11 year boy growing up on the East coast of England.
Bobby's life seems charmed - a perfect family, a loving mother & father & a community of friends who love & protect him - but things are changing.
Whilst the World teeters on the brink of Nuclear War Bobby's father has a mysterious illness, & life at his new Catholic school is cruel & viscious & unfair.
In the midst of alll this is McNulty, the mysterious Fire breathing strongman who seems to be be fighting his own war against past demons.
Who is he, where does he come from & what does he want from Bobby?
Almond's writting is rich & multi-layered but with a lovely defness of touch.
He skillfully intermingles the personal battles of young Bobby & his family & friends with what happened during that tumultous year of 1962.
The end result never feals forced but instead is a convincing story that just oozes warmth & depth from page to page.
david almond's fire eaters, - By: , 24 May 2004 
This book was rather interesting in the way that it was so boring. It takes to long to get in o the main depth of the story making you want to just put the book down & never eer read it again.
Although i found it shocking it is not the worst book i have read it is far from it but it s still quite high on my dislike scale.
Here is a paragph from my friend.
So far this book has been the most dull & boring ever it has made me dilusional!
