Guts
by Gary Paulsen
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Author: Gary PaulsenEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-11-12
ISBN: 0440407125
Number of pages: 148
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
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Book Review: Gary Pausen's "Guts"
Summary: 5 Stars
The Brian Books and Hatchet are undoubtedly, the best books that Gary Paulsen has ever written, in his career. The book is simple in style but yet not boring, a hard balance to keep, unless you are writing about eating guts and getting attached by wild animals. Paulsen writes about Heart Attacks and other incidents that he had witnessed as a volunteer EMT, in his early to mid twenties. In the woods you can stumble upon several things that can hurt. Like a skunk, a swarm of musketeers, a sled dog, or even a moose attack from which he lived through. Gary also talks about living in his home town, and having to find food for himself because his parents were always to busy drinking or passed out. Paulsen often hunted the woods just out side of town, just to get caught, with a fresh catch by the Sheriff or the Game Warden. Most of the time Gary was hunting out of season; which is illegal, but the Sheriff and Game Warden knew that if he wasn't hunting for game he was starving. So they would often turn a cheek and ignore what was happening.
Gary talks about running the Iditarod, and the experiences he had with the dogs, and Mother Nature. Time after time Gary runs into trouble with his dogs. The dogs loose the trail in the blinding snow storms, or they run into a moose, or they tangle with another sled team that is running beside them. Shoot, the book is all about "GUTS", if you have them or you don't, if you need them or you don't, or even if you eat them. This book is for every Gary Paulsen fan, that wants to know more about The Brian Books or Hatchet.
Summary of Guts
Guess what -- Gary Paulsen was being kind to Brian. In Guts, Gary tells the real stories behind the Brian books, the stories of the adventures that inspired him to write Brian Robeson's story: working as an emergency volunteer; the death that inspired the pilot's death in Hatchet; plane crashes he has seen and near-misses of his own. He describes how he made his own bows and arrows, and takes readers on his first hunting trips, showing the wonder and solace of nature along with his hilarious mishaps and mistakes. He shares special memories, such as the night he attracted every mosquito in the county, or how he met the moose with a sense of humor, and the moose who made it personal. There's a handy chapter on "Eating Eyeballs and Guts or Starving: The Fine Art of Wilderness Nutrition." Recipes included. Readers may wonder how Gary Paulsen survived to write all of his books -- well, it took guts.From the Hardcover edition.
What do you do when you're being charged by a red-eyed furious wall of brown fur that is an insane moose? How do you make a weapon with your bare hands? How do you sneak up on a grouse or a rabbit, kill it with a well-aimed arrow, and cook it over a fire--without a pot? All this and lots more is essential learning for Brian Robeson, the young wilderness survivor in Gary Paulsen's classic novel Hatchet. In writing that book, Paulsen was determined that everything that happened to Brian--the survival techniques and the physical and emotional traumas--would be drawn closely from reality and his own experiences. In Guts he reveals the stories behind Hatchet, as he lived them. Linked to specific incidents from Brian's ordeal are the skills and insights Paulsen learned as a teenager passionately in love with hunting in the north woods of Minnesota, the extremes of exhaustion and cold he knew in running the Iditarod dog races in Alaska, the chilling close-up knowledge of heart attacks from his experiences as a volunteer ambulance driver, the silence and majesty of the wilderness. Some great stories are told here: the child killed by two kicks from the razor-sharp hooves of a small deer, the difficulties of sharing a rescue helicopter ride with a terrified dog team, and some spectacular gross-outs about the nutritional need to eat every part of an animal. Hatchet fans will be agog, and parents and teachers will be thrilled to see the enthusiastic reaction of even the most reluctant readers. (Ages 10 to 14) --Patty Campbell
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