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Crazy Dangerous
by
Andrew Klavan (Goodreads Author)
Do Right, Fear Nothing.
Sam Hopkins is a good kid who has fallen in with the wrong crowd. Hanging around with car thieves and thugs, Sam knows it's only a matter of time before he makes one bad decision too many and gets into real trouble.
But one day, Sam sees these friends harassing an eccentric schoolmate named Jennifer. Finding the courage to face the bullies down, Sam l...more
Sam Hopkins is a good kid who has fallen in with the wrong crowd. Hanging around with car thieves and thugs, Sam knows it's only a matter of time before he makes one bad decision too many and gets into real trouble.
But one day, Sam sees these friends harassing an eccentric schoolmate named Jennifer. Finding the courage to face the bullies down, Sam l...more
Hardcover, 330 pages
Published
May 1st 2012
by Thomas Nelson
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Life is all about perceptions. There is a fine line between what one might consider prophetic and what one might consider crazy. Which one of those categories does Jennifer fall into? Maybe the answer is both.
We find a character who is completely batty, in the eyes of everyone around her. But somehow, Sam was able to see past that. He was able to put the fractured pieces together and find the truth.
This book skirts around some issues that face us all. When is it okay to not do the right thing?...more
We find a character who is completely batty, in the eyes of everyone around her. But somehow, Sam was able to see past that. He was able to put the fractured pieces together and find the truth.
This book skirts around some issues that face us all. When is it okay to not do the right thing?...more
Crazy Dangerous by Andrew Klavan
I’ve always heard that preacher’s kids are the worst. That is when it comes to being wild. Is this what happened to Sam? He was a pretty good kid, didn’t really give his parents a lot of problems and heartaches,that is until he started hanging around with the wrong kind of people. People that like to get into trouble, and that led Sam into getting into trouble. Jennifer was more like wild and crazy, and her mental problems only caused more problems for her.
Wow whe...more
I’ve always heard that preacher’s kids are the worst. That is when it comes to being wild. Is this what happened to Sam? He was a pretty good kid, didn’t really give his parents a lot of problems and heartaches,that is until he started hanging around with the wrong kind of people. People that like to get into trouble, and that led Sam into getting into trouble. Jennifer was more like wild and crazy, and her mental problems only caused more problems for her.
Wow whe...more
Crazy Dangerous first caught my attention as a review title because of the name – the juxtaposition of words reminded me of Hideous Kinky, the movie starring Kate Winslet, where the two girls combined words to come up with strange combinations. Crazy Dangerous fit the bill. The opening line also caught my eye: “You see that dead guy by the side of the road? ... That’s me”. So many books seem to have similar plots that I’m always looking for something original. A novel narrated by a dead guy? Yes...more
Sam Hopkins is a pretty good kid. The son of a preacher, he has lived a fairly normal life. He has always wanted to get a little more attention though. One day he starts to get that attention, but not from the people he probably should. When Sam starts to feel a that he's in a bit over his head, he decides that now would be a good time to get away from his new crowd. Things go terribly wrong when a strange girl from his school crosses his path. Jennifer Sales is the sister of one of the most pop...more
When the pastor's son, Sam Hopkins, falls in with the wrong crowd, it's only a matter of time before he gets into serious trouble. His new friends harass an odd girl name Jennifer, and Sam sticks up for her. Then Jennifer tells Sam that she has dreams of demons and death, which freaks out Sam even more when her prediction comes true. When Jennifer tells him about another prediction, Sam is the only one who takes her seriously, which means he's the only one who can stop it from coming true.
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MICHELLE'S REVIEW:
RATING: 5 CRAZY DANGEROUS STARS!!
RECTE AGE NIL TIME
DO RIGHT. FEAR NOTHING.
This book was a fantastic, suspenseful, crazy, dangerous ride. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Sam Hopkins is a PK = Preachers Kid.
He starts off trying to shake the image of a PK, becomes the apprentice to three thugs, Jeff, Harry and Ed and learns the trade of some things that can come in handy being a thug. After a short lived apprenticeship, Sam sees the error of his ways when he meets Jennifer . Oh...more
RATING: 5 CRAZY DANGEROUS STARS!!
RECTE AGE NIL TIME
DO RIGHT. FEAR NOTHING.
This book was a fantastic, suspenseful, crazy, dangerous ride. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Sam Hopkins is a PK = Preachers Kid.
He starts off trying to shake the image of a PK, becomes the apprentice to three thugs, Jeff, Harry and Ed and learns the trade of some things that can come in handy being a thug. After a short lived apprenticeship, Sam sees the error of his ways when he meets Jennifer . Oh...more
RATING: 5 CRAZY DANGEROUS STARS!!
RECTE AGE NIL TIME
DO RIGHT. FEAR NOTHING.
This book was a fantastic, suspenseful, crazy, dangerous ride. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Sam Hopkins is a PK = Preachers Kid.
He starts off trying to shake the image of a PK, becomes the apprentice to three thugs, Jeff, Harry and Ed and learns the trade of some things that can come in handy being a thug. After a short lived apprenticeship, Sam sees the error of his ways when he meets Jennifer . Oh the mystery of Jen...more
RECTE AGE NIL TIME
DO RIGHT. FEAR NOTHING.
This book was a fantastic, suspenseful, crazy, dangerous ride. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Sam Hopkins is a PK = Preachers Kid.
He starts off trying to shake the image of a PK, becomes the apprentice to three thugs, Jeff, Harry and Ed and learns the trade of some things that can come in handy being a thug. After a short lived apprenticeship, Sam sees the error of his ways when he meets Jennifer . Oh the mystery of Jen...more
Sam was a typical kid who started hanging out with the wrong people. He has a good heart though, so when some bullies are picking on Jennifer because she is strange, he stands up for her even if he gets beaten up for it. Sam is following a new philosophy, “Do right. Fear nothing.” (Klavan 106). Jennifer sees and hears things most people don’t. She is plagued by nightmares and visions that taunt and trap her.
As time passes, and the events Jennifer describes come to pass, Sam realizes that she is...more
As time passes, and the events Jennifer describes come to pass, Sam realizes that she is...more
I LOVED this book. I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next and yet the closer I got to the end the less I wanted it to end.
Sam is just a normal kid. Not really outstanding at anything. He's a preacher's son and stays out of trouble. But then he starts hanging with the wrong crowd and starts to get into trouble. I didn't feel bad for Sam, as I think what he was going through was fairly normal - the feelings of wanting to fit in and being awed by a lifestyle that he wasn't used to. I...more
Sam is just a normal kid. Not really outstanding at anything. He's a preacher's son and stays out of trouble. But then he starts hanging with the wrong crowd and starts to get into trouble. I didn't feel bad for Sam, as I think what he was going through was fairly normal - the feelings of wanting to fit in and being awed by a lifestyle that he wasn't used to. I...more
Sam Hopkins is not a bad kid but on a training run that he hopes will start to get him into good enough shape to join his school's award winning track team, he has a dangerous run in with a gang of thieves. He starts to hang out with them and they start to teach him how to pick locks, break into cars and steal them. A chance meeting with the strange, younger sister of the school's track team star, makes Sam take a stand against the thugs that have befriended him. He now has a new friend, not jus...more
May 18, 2012
Mallory Anne-Marie Forbes
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4 of 5 stars
Recommended to Mallory Anne-Marie by:
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“Crazy dangerous” is an appealing YA novel with excellent scenery, realistic characters, and a pair of empathetic protagonists, one female, one male. Sam is a wiry, dedicated, sometimes invisible but too often bullied, boy who wants to train himself to be good enough for the track team. Surprisingly, especially considering he is frequently the victim of physical bullying and brutality, Sam harbors a tremendous amount of rage-and sometimes that erupts.
Jennifer, unlike her older brother, is also a...more
Jennifer, unlike her older brother, is also a...more
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Fast-paced, humorous, with the flippancy that only a teen-aged boy narrator/protagonist can pull off, "Crazy Dangerous" is one of the best YA novels I've read in ages with a male at its heart. For those reasons alone anyone would enjoy this book, but there's so much more to it! A sort of John Green meets James Patterson...
Andrew Klavan, an Edgar Award-Winning author lives up to his
reputation with this one...and I can't wait to read his other books.
As our famous Stephen Tyler of American Idol a...more
Andrew Klavan, an Edgar Award-Winning author lives up to his
reputation with this one...and I can't wait to read his other books.
As our famous Stephen Tyler of American Idol a...more
Crazy Dangerous is told from two views. First we get to meet Sam Hopkins, the goodie goodie preacher’s son who wants, more than anything, for his classmates to accept him and stop tip toeing around him because of who his father is. Tom, in a freak show of spunk and guts, wins the friendship of the biggest bully in school and realizes this may be his “in” to the cool crowd. While Tom is spending his afternoons with Jeff and his thugs, learning how to hot wire cars, we meet our other speaker from...more
Do right. Fear nothing.
These simple words sum up the moral code that guides Sam Hopkins, the teenage hero of Andrew Klavan’s Crazy Dangerous.
Sam is a preacher’s kid from a loving family, whose mom, dad, and brother are all a little too busy to spend time with him. When he is tapped by the biggest troublemaker in school to become part of a bad-boy entourage, he feels cool for the first time in his life. Initially, his bad choices lead to a dilemma that only affects himself. Then he stumbles up...more
These simple words sum up the moral code that guides Sam Hopkins, the teenage hero of Andrew Klavan’s Crazy Dangerous.
Sam is a preacher’s kid from a loving family, whose mom, dad, and brother are all a little too busy to spend time with him. When he is tapped by the biggest troublemaker in school to become part of a bad-boy entourage, he feels cool for the first time in his life. Initially, his bad choices lead to a dilemma that only affects himself. Then he stumbles up...more
The premise of this book sounded good, but I'll admit, as soon as I read the first couple of pages, I wanted to put it down. The author starts out with a bizarre sequence from the point of view of a 16 year old girl named Jennifer that just seems...odd, to put it nicely. However, it only lasted a couple of pages before switching to the main storyline, that of a more well-adjusted and normal character named Sam.
From there, the story did get keep my attention, despite a few more run-ins with Jenn...more
From there, the story did get keep my attention, despite a few more run-ins with Jenn...more
Andrew Klavan is back with an exciting, action-packed YA adventure. Sam Hopkins is a normal kid. He does the things he is supposed to, most of the time. However, the choice to hang with the wrong crowd puts him into many situations where Sam has to consciously make good decisions, which becomes increasingly difficult. When Sam sees his "friends" harassing Jennifer, one of his schoolmates, his choice is to help her. What does that do to his "friendship" with the group? Will there be repercussions...more
Crazy Dangerous by Andrew Klavan
Sam Hopkins is a pretty good kid. A preacher's kid, aka a PK. However, he has found himself mixed up with the wrong crowd. Hanging around with car thieves and delinquents, Sam knows it is only a matter of time before he makes one bad decision too many and gets into real trouble.
But one day, Sam sees these thugs harassing a troubled schoolmate named Jennifer. Finding the courage to face the bullies down, Sam loses a bad set of friends and acquires a very strange...more
Sam Hopkins is a pretty good kid. A preacher's kid, aka a PK. However, he has found himself mixed up with the wrong crowd. Hanging around with car thieves and delinquents, Sam knows it is only a matter of time before he makes one bad decision too many and gets into real trouble.
But one day, Sam sees these thugs harassing a troubled schoolmate named Jennifer. Finding the courage to face the bullies down, Sam loses a bad set of friends and acquires a very strange...more
When Sam falls in with the wrong crowd and doesn't know what to do, he takes some advice from an unexpected source that tells him: Do right. Fear nothing. For awhile, it seems things are finally going well for Sam, but when a schizophrenic girl starts calling Sam her "magic friend" and begging him to help her defeat demons, and Sam is accused of a major crime, he begins to wonder if doing right is always the best policy, and whether there really are darker, more dangerous things out there that h...more
Crazy Dangerous, written by Andrew Klavan took me by surprise. It’s a story about a 17-year-old preacher’s kid, who learns deeply and sometimes painfully about himself, bullies and mental illness.
At first, I wondered if I’d gotten myself into a Young Adult book, as it is written in a first-person voice by the kid himself. While pretty well-spoken, you knew it was the kid talking. Seriously. And I wasn’t sure I was up for it.
Ah, but then I was captured. Andrew Klavan breathed life into Sam and th...more
At first, I wondered if I’d gotten myself into a Young Adult book, as it is written in a first-person voice by the kid himself. While pretty well-spoken, you knew it was the kid talking. Seriously. And I wasn’t sure I was up for it.
Ah, but then I was captured. Andrew Klavan breathed life into Sam and th...more
Sam Hopkins is a preacher's kid. When he's out running three boys attack him, because they don't want him running there. When he shows that he's a brave kid the boys ask him to join their friends group. Sam knows these boys from school and he knows they're not up to much good. As a preacher's kid Sam has always lived a safe life. He wants a little bit of change and decides to join the group. Soon he learns that was a BIG mistake and he wants out.
Jennifer is a girl on Sam's school. She's talking...more
Jennifer is a girl on Sam's school. She's talking...more
I was surprised by how into this book I was. The story grabs you from the beginning and you’re left wondering what kind of thing is going to happen next!
Sam is a preacher’s kid (PK, for short). Everyone in town expects him to be good, but all Sam wants to do is live a normal life, making waves big enough that the cute girls notice him, but small enough waves to stay out of trouble. Things quickly escalate when he stands up to a bully for Jennifer, the local weirdy.
It quickly becomes apparent tha...more
Sam is a preacher’s kid (PK, for short). Everyone in town expects him to be good, but all Sam wants to do is live a normal life, making waves big enough that the cute girls notice him, but small enough waves to stay out of trouble. Things quickly escalate when he stands up to a bully for Jennifer, the local weirdy.
It quickly becomes apparent tha...more
This book does not quite rise to the awesomeness that was the Homelanders, but I'm pretty sure it would pass the author's drop-the-video-game-to-read-this test. The characters are fairly well developed for a story of this length, the action is non-stop, and there's Klavan's trademark mix of noir and optimism that has earned him so many fans of all ages. The Christian theme is clearly there, although in a more subtle way than some of Klavan's recent work, and there's a mini-twist at the very end...more
Did I enjoy this book: I enjoyed this book a lot especially once I hit the second half of the book.
To be honest, the beginning kind of dragged a bit and I wasn't sure if I was going to like it. However, once I got to the middle, I read every free chance I had and I couldn't put Crazy Dangerous down until I finished the last page. The ending was completely unexpected. I did not see it coming at all. It was definitely a nail biter and all I can say is WOW! (Actually, I think my exact thoughts whe...more
To be honest, the beginning kind of dragged a bit and I wasn't sure if I was going to like it. However, once I got to the middle, I read every free chance I had and I couldn't put Crazy Dangerous down until I finished the last page. The ending was completely unexpected. I did not see it coming at all. It was definitely a nail biter and all I can say is WOW! (Actually, I think my exact thoughts whe...more
Sam Hopkins is not the brightest, most athletic or over-all together kid. He’s the PK (preacher’s kid) and has to live up to a certain standard due to that fact. Being a PK means that other kids at school act overly polite, the girl he likes never gives him her easy smile, and everything he does wrong will reflect poorly on his father. So when Sam is practicing to join the all-star track team by himself- out in the middle of nowhere- and he meets the “bad” kids at school who ask him to be their...more
Crazy Dangerous by Andrew Klavan is aptly titled! The only way I can describe this read is on the dark side {reminds me of Darth Vader going to the dark side in Star Wars} .
Sam is one of those PK's (preacher's kid} who seems to be at the wrong place at the right time....only to get into trouble. He seemingly wants to do good but somehow ends up in the wrong. Then he runs into Jennifer, Mark's younger sister. Jennifer is a shy, hunched, small in stature and always in her own world kind.of.girl....more
Sam is one of those PK's (preacher's kid} who seems to be at the wrong place at the right time....only to get into trouble. He seemingly wants to do good but somehow ends up in the wrong. Then he runs into Jennifer, Mark's younger sister. Jennifer is a shy, hunched, small in stature and always in her own world kind.of.girl....more
My first book by this author and my first YA read in a really long time. Really enjoyed it. Well written and believable characters, solid story and a twist at the end I didn't see coming and when it happened was mad I hadn't seen it coming. My only complaint was massive urges to skim but I don't think the pacing is off. The tension is just so high and Sam's so thorough in his descriptions (which I liked) that at some parts I couldn't read fast enough. Correction, my brain needed to process faste...more
"You probably want to hear about Jennifer and the demons and how I played chicken with a freight train and—oh yeah—the weird murder . . . you're definitely going to want to hear about that."Crazy Dangerous is a Young Adult Fiction about a boy named Sam who is the son of a Preacher. He makes some poor choices and gets in with the wrong crowd. Things continue to get worse for him as he tries to help a girl named Jennifer who has been having hallucinations of demons. He begins to wonder if her hal...more
Intrigue, insanity, and danger make this a thrilling adventure novel with a Christian twist. Sam Hopkins is a preacher's kid who is tired of everyone feeling like they have to be perfect around him and when circumstances put him together with a bully, who wants to be his friend because he stands up to him, Sam decides to fall in with the wrong crowd. Jennifer, whose older brother Mark is a track star, is insane. When Sam stands up to his bullying friends to protect her, he becomes her hero and h...more
I love Klavan and this book holds up the standard. Klavan has been foraying into YA lately and though I am sad to see him leave grown-up fiction, I enjoy the occasional YA book and will continue to read him.
One thing I have ALWAYS loved about Klavan books is that the characters actually talk to each other. There's none of that contrived "I can't tell you this secret" nonsense essential to so many trumped-up plots. (Hello, Dumbledore!) The protagonist of this book, teenager Sam Hopkins, is blesse...more
One thing I have ALWAYS loved about Klavan books is that the characters actually talk to each other. There's none of that contrived "I can't tell you this secret" nonsense essential to so many trumped-up plots. (Hello, Dumbledore!) The protagonist of this book, teenager Sam Hopkins, is blesse...more
Andrew Klavan in his new book “Crazy Dangerous” published by Thomas Nelson takes us into the life of Sam Hopkins.
From the back cover: Sam Hopkins is a good kid who has fallen in with the wrong crowd. Hanging around with car thieves and thugs, Sam knows it’s only a matter of time before he makes one bad decision too many and gets into real trouble.
But one day, Sam sees these thugs harassing an eccentric schoolmate named Jennifer. Finding the courage to face the bullies down, Sam loses a bad set o...more
From the back cover: Sam Hopkins is a good kid who has fallen in with the wrong crowd. Hanging around with car thieves and thugs, Sam knows it’s only a matter of time before he makes one bad decision too many and gets into real trouble.
But one day, Sam sees these thugs harassing an eccentric schoolmate named Jennifer. Finding the courage to face the bullies down, Sam loses a bad set o...more
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