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Snivel: The Fifth Circle of Heck (The Nine Circles of Heck #5)
by
Dale E. Basye,
Bob Dob
Dale E. Basye sends Milton and Marlo to Snivel, the circle reserved for crybabies, for their latest hilarious escapade in Heck. Snivel is a camp—a bummer camp—a dismal place where it's always raining, and Unhappy Campers are besieged by swarms of strange mosquitoes that suck the color right out of them. Soon the Fausters discover that some Unhappy Campers have been disappe...more
Hardcover, 448 pages
Published
May 22nd 2012
by Random House Books for Young Readers
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Reason for Reading: Next in the series.
Snivel continues on with more of the same of what we've come to expect from this series by this time. Book Five is not as good as the last book but stands strong along with the others. The plot will really be a lot of fun for kids as the majority of the action takes place with Milton & his new group of friends inside a video game version of "Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go". This time Milton and Marlo start out together and are quickly separated. The narrat...more
Snivel continues on with more of the same of what we've come to expect from this series by this time. Book Five is not as good as the last book but stands strong along with the others. The plot will really be a lot of fun for kids as the majority of the action takes place with Milton & his new group of friends inside a video game version of "Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go". This time Milton and Marlo start out together and are quickly separated. The narrat...more
I think it is hysterical that this book is listed for readers 9 and up. Sure, they can read it, but will they get some of the jokes and puns? Probably not? Do I care? Nope, I don't? Did I enjoy the book? Hell yeah!
The Heck series is so awesome!
Besides your usually players of Milton, Marlo and the Principal Bea "Elsa" Bubb we have some new celebrities on board in Heck, like Edgar Allen Poe and Vincent Van Gogh! Oh and Principal Bubb is trying to get elected to Satan's job as he's on trial and ha...more
The Heck series is so awesome!
Besides your usually players of Milton, Marlo and the Principal Bea "Elsa" Bubb we have some new celebrities on board in Heck, like Edgar Allen Poe and Vincent Van Gogh! Oh and Principal Bubb is trying to get elected to Satan's job as he's on trial and ha...more
So I feel much better about the series after reading this entry. The characters seem to be more solid and actually developing. I definitely like Marlo a lot more after this book. The overarching plot, while still a bit murky, is revealed a little more. It will be interesting to see how the final events of this novel affect the rest of the series. Having said that, this is the fourth(?) circle of Heck that Milton and/or Marlo destroyed, why isn't anybody mentioning this!? What's happening with th...more
I started reading this series like 2 years ago and I thought the series ended on book 4, but... I was scouting the library and... guess what? I FOUND THE FIFTH BOOK!!!! I was soooooo excited! Now I will say the pros and cons
Pros: Marlo is as awesomely awesome as ever!! I have been waiting a really long time to hear some of her snark and she is the coolest heroine like ever!!!
Sam/Sara: I don't know just the fact that they were conjoined made them awesome. I mean, a conjoined side character(s)? Y...more
Welcome to Bummer camp! Milton and his new friends find out its not all boring, wet, and gloomy, there's video games galore in Arcadia (run by Tesla), or is that a trap too? Meantime VP Poe drags Marlo off to a shadow box room where she finds she can communicate with the surface, sort of, and that her parents need her help. Can she manage it as a mere shadow of herself? Will Milton and his teammates get the top score? What diabolical scheme are the forces at Snivel/Arcadia trying to pull off and...more
This category-defying pun-fest of a series continues to have me snickering myself into public embarrassment, although I'd still love to meet the member of the target-audience age group who would fully appreciate all of the sly plays-on-words & pop-cultural references scattered so liberally over each & every page.
Marlo & Milton Fauster have somehow managed to make it to the fifth circle of Heck: Snivel, where all of the weepy, whiny kids spend eternity or until they turn eighteen, wh...more
Marlo & Milton Fauster have somehow managed to make it to the fifth circle of Heck: Snivel, where all of the weepy, whiny kids spend eternity or until they turn eighteen, wh...more
While summer camp is often the exact opposite of typical boredom experienced in summertime, the Fausters are now in a "bummmer" camp run by a depressed author with ulterior motives. We learn more of the effect of the death of Marlo and Milton on their parents and the existence of a world where the games, though incredible, can be deadly. Through video games, ghostly haunting and discovery of a plan formulated to cheat death, we are taught that too much of anything can be your downfall.
What can be said about Snivel, that hasnt already been said about books 1-4? This book is another wonderful piece of one awesome puzzle. I cant wait for number six! Besides being an interesting story about siblings, Basye sprinkles reality and historical figures through it, I love being able to connect to what I'm reading. Basye keeps you guessing, I recommend this series to all my fellow book lovers.
Great story. A continuation of Milton and Marlo's adventures through Heck (Where the bad kids go). The book takes up right after the end of the Fourth Circle. Milton and Marlo's adventures get more intriguing as the continue through the circles.
I like this book better than the previous four. In fact, the books get better with each circle of Heck. More meaningful and stimulating.
What a wild ride! Mr. Basye's imagination and vocabulary are nothing short of genius!
I love this cover! It's so cute!
I actually started out loving this series but the longer it goes on it is getting stale and boring. here's hoping the next one makes up for this dull novel.
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