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Audiobook2 hours
Slake's Limbo
Written by Felice Holman
Narrated by Neil Patrick Harris
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Aremis Slake, at the age of thirteen, took his fear and misfortune and hid them underground. The thing is, he had to go with them.
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Reviews for Slake's Limbo
Rating: 3.731703902439025 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
41 ratings4 reviews
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/51974. This is one of those 70s young adult books that you can't help but think they wouldn't let kids read today or perhaps even publish.It's about a really down and out white kid in NYC. He's abused by his aunt who he lives with. He has a cot in her kitchen. He always hungry. He's short for his age so the kids beat him up a lot and take his stuff. He's near-sighted and he doesn't have glasses. So what does he do? He runs away and lives in the subway. It then becomes almost as cool as From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, where the kids run away and hide in the Metropolitan Museum. Except that it's so sad and pathetic in a way. Atmospheric, with great seventies details. I suppose it's supposed to be a parable for what the spirit can endure and rise above, but unless your kids were really so desperately unhappy they needed such a book, or so incredibly stable that it wouldn't effect them, I wouldn't give them this one. Very depressing and liable to encourage them to run away and try to live in the subway. And not much hope at the end either...
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A powerful book about being a neglected child, told in such an interesting way that I forgot how sorry I felt for the kid and just got wrapped up in the story.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I disliked the style of narration, couldn't relate to the character, and thought the ending was super cheesy.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the one book from grade school which I recall fondly. Abused and impoverished, Slake’s life pretty much blows. So he goes underground, into the tunnels of the NYC subway system. There he hawks secondhand newspapers, befriends a hungry rodent, and finds a few benefactors. This kid’s book is well-written by any standard; it is also profound in its portrayal of human kindness and misery.