Carthies in the new world?

[Celtic_Punk]

You have read The Hatchet? By Gary Paulsen?? And the sequel? Those were only OK/mediocre/borderline rotten books, not to mention teen fiction. Very simple and un-sophisticated, not to mention, written by a half-amateur, despite the amount of books Paulsen wrote. Please, the best survival books are: Mysterious Island (Jules Verne) - the best of them all, Swiss Family Robinson, and of course, Robinson Crusoe and the sequel.

Sorry to trash your favourite book like that :P

Well, what you say won't change my mind. He wrote about a part of Canada I know and hunt. When I read the Hatchet I was 13 like Brian. I was going camping up in Algonquin the next week and my friend gave me that book. I'm happy she let me borrow it. It made my camping trip that much more awesome. Excellent book. That amateur you speak of is a woodsman first, a writer second. Give him some credit. Not everyone has to be a super nerd. Its a book meant for young teens, but as a Woodsman and a hunter I see the value in it. When I have a son, I hope he will value it as much as I have. I've never read another group of fiction books where the only thing I could say about it was "It was too short, I never wanted it to end!!!"


EDIT: I've also got to say, the Hatchet made me strive to become proficient in archery. My dad was teaching me how to use a longbow at the time, and every time I locked the arrow all I could think about was staring that big huuuge moose cow down in Brian's winter with his warbow.