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Out of Patience
by
Brian Meehl (Goodreads Author)
Some folks have skeletons in their closets. The Waters have toilets. Jake’s mortified by his dad’s dream to open the American Toilet Museum. Toilets have caused enough turmoil in Patience, Kansas. Patience has been cursed for 129 years, since Jeremiah Waters installed the first flush toilet. The Dolphin Deluge Wash-Down Water Closet caused a stink, and since then Patience ...more
Library Binding, 304 pages
Published
May 9th 2006
by Random House Children's Books
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Holes. Very much Holes.
I don't mean plot holes, as many of you must expect. I mean Holes, by Louis Sachar. I noticed the parallel the entire way through, and I'm actually shocked Mr. Sachar hasn't taken any legal action against Brian Meehl yet. I could re-write Harry Potter (Not well, I admit) and J.K. Rowling would sue me for all I was worth.
As my biggest peeve has been ranted, I'm sure you all want to read the Pros, do you not? Surprisingly, this book has several. The ...more
I don't mean plot holes, as many of you must expect. I mean Holes, by Louis Sachar. I noticed the parallel the entire way through, and I'm actually shocked Mr. Sachar hasn't taken any legal action against Brian Meehl yet. I could re-write Harry Potter (Not well, I admit) and J.K. Rowling would sue me for all I was worth.
As my biggest peeve has been ranted, I'm sure you all want to read the Pros, do you not? Surprisingly, this book has several. The ...more
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Funny book about a boy & his dad who live in the po-dunk town of Patience, KS. The history of the town involves the first flush toilet, and the boy's dad (a plumber) is a descendant of the family that owned it. The dad collects bathroom antiques and memorabilia, and wants to open the first ATM (Antique Toilet Museum)as a business venture. There is a curse as part of the history that has at its heart the Plunger of Destiny...All sounds really corny and is a bit, but the book is about small towns,...more
Any book that contains a toilet museum and a manure factory is already off to a rip-roaring start! I really enjoyed the characters in this book as they wrestled with life's changes and dilemmas. I saw that some of the other reviewers found it very similar to holes. While both deal with modern-day kids confronting the curses of their ancestors, I think the similarities end there. Jake, Sira, and Howie have a lot to figure out about who they want to be as they grow up. It was great to accompany th...more
This book, in a lot of ways, reminded me of the book "Holes". A small town by the name of Patience has a curse hanging over it. However, I think I liked this book more because of how humorous it was. If you think the book is quirky head over to the authors website for more quirky info.
Summary:
Jake Waters lives in the town of Patience, Kansas. The place was settled by his great, great, great, great-grandfather. Once upon a time the town was properous until t...more
Summary:
Jake Waters lives in the town of Patience, Kansas. The place was settled by his great, great, great, great-grandfather. Once upon a time the town was properous until t...more
I got this book a while ago because it sounded quirky and fun. Then it ended up on the To Read Pile of Doom, and eventually settled down to the point where it finally winded up shelved and unread. While I was shelving the books I've bought and read in the last few months, I remembered that I had this book as I put Suck It Up, also by Meehl, away. This weekend, because I finished a couple books and Mothstorm still hadn't come in from the Devil's Den and I was just having a hard time getting into ...more
babyhippoface
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Recommends it for:
5th-6th graders
Shelves:
kids-fiction,
humor
The plunger attack in paragraph one hooked me. Seriously--how can you not at least have more than a passing interest in a book featuring The Plunger of Destiny, The Dolphin Deluge Washdown Water Closet, and the possible creation of an American Toilet Museum?
There was enough humor and action to keep me turning the pages until about 3/4 of the way through, at which point my heart actually started to beat a little faster as the tone changed completely. Suddenly, this was about more tha...more
There was enough humor and action to keep me turning the pages until about 3/4 of the way through, at which point my heart actually started to beat a little faster as the tone changed completely. Suddenly, this was about more tha...more
Doubted this book for a long time until I read it. HILARIOUS! I especially loved their version of baseball, the 7 inning stench, and the reworking of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." That part had me laughing out loud.
Meehl has written an engaging and funny book in Out of Patience, much to the likeness of David Lubar. Jake Waters' father has a unique dream. His dream is to open the American Toilet Museum in the quiet town of Patience, Kansas. After hearing more of his fiar share about antique toilets and plungers, Jake as no time for his father's antics. His father however brings home an artifact that leads Jake on a journey through the toilet history of Patience, and just might lead him to the answers to a l...more
Sing "Take Me Out to the Stink Farm" and people will start to look at you strangely. Sing it on a stage with a plunger in your hand and make it in to a sing-along, people will applaud. Go figure.
This was a Book Fest book, and I'd really like to know how it got on the list for 7th and 8th graders- because it's on a 4th grade reading level. Also, I don't really want to hear about a cow manure tornado.
I read this book several years ago but it is one I tried to reference in It's Kind of a Funny Story. This book is about toilets and everything that goes with them. To add to the story a mystery is included. It's a fun book. I can't remember much about the characters but I definitely have graphic images from the story wafting about me from time to time.
So funny! About a kid whose dad is trying to open a toilet museum, and the kid is trying to save his town from a curse about a toilet plunger returning to town!
Atomicgirl
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Recommends it for:
readers who want clean fiction
Recommended to Atomicgirl by:
library technician
Shelves:
young-adult,
humorous
Literally, toilet humor to draw in the younger readers. A story about toilets, a cursed toilet plunger, and the ATM; the American Toilet Museum.
This is another one of the Sunshine State Books I read with my kids. Reminded me a lot of Holes, but moved very slow in some parts.
Marcia
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Recommends it for:
Flush fans, mystery, mcba,
Recommended to Marcia by:
mcba
Shelves:
grades-4-6,
mcba
A feud, a curse, a fertilizer company, three great friends and an historic toilet--what's not to like?! Lots of tongue-in-cheek potty humor make this a funny little mystery. Entertaining.
I think its like Holes with toilets and I was disappointed that more students didn't read and enjoy it this year!
Very interesting...good for boys...some funny humor...all related to the toilet...
i enjoyed learning the history of patience and making scence out of the title
At the beginning of this story I thought I was going to HATE it because it included many things that I am most definitely not interested in reading about: toilets, plungers, baseball, people hating their home towns...BUT I couldn't put this book down for the last 100 pages! It had a little history and a treasure hunt--excellent! And, I also loved how the author did a nice job of describing important incidents in the story but then sometimes summed up less important events with to-the-point bulle...more
This is a book about a boy that wants to get out of a town in Kansas. The plot focuses around a plunger of destiny, the boy's plumber father's dream of opening a toilet museum, and a curse that dooms the town if the plunger returns. I could relate to the boy by wanting to get out of the book. It held my interest to see it through to the stinky end. The main message seemed to be that people you thought you trusted could turn on you at any moment. They would end up sorry of course, with the hero b...more
This Book is OK, but not very good.
Robin
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Recommended to Robin by:
Marcia, the wonder librarian
Shelves:
mcba-2010,
for-upper-elementary-kids
I need a laugh today!
Curious if anyone else was bothered by the similarities to Sachar's Holes: Boy from down family with weird father, family curse dating to the wild west, missing buried treasure, Curse linked to male descendants with similar names, and the whole feel of it.
This isn't to say that Out of Patience isn't a good read. Loved the characters of Sira and Jake. And it turned out to be a surprisingly sweet tale. I just found that all the coincidences inter...more
Curious if anyone else was bothered by the similarities to Sachar's Holes: Boy from down family with weird father, family curse dating to the wild west, missing buried treasure, Curse linked to male descendants with similar names, and the whole feel of it.
This isn't to say that Out of Patience isn't a good read. Loved the characters of Sira and Jake. And it turned out to be a surprisingly sweet tale. I just found that all the coincidences inter...more
The Plunger of Destiny!
Very original
this was a cute little story. now all i need to do is read eli the good and i will have read all the books i need for bookfest
Reading for the Children's Library Book Club. The boys decided to read this one and the girls are reading Chasing Vermeer. We'll share.
Very creative writing - interesting sense of place, concept, just out there enough to make it a little weird and to hit home as real at the same time.
Worth reading, especially for intermediate readers and early middle school.
Very creative writing - interesting sense of place, concept, just out there enough to make it a little weird and to hit home as real at the same time.
Worth reading, especially for intermediate readers and early middle school.
This book reminded me so much of Sachar's Holes. I bought this book because I'm from Kansas, and the book is set in Kansas. I didn't think it was wonderful. I didn't think it was awful. I just thought of Holes the entire time I read the book.
I have learned that Jake wants to get out of Patience real bad because the Plunger of Desenity has returned.
I didn't exactly like it, but I didn't put it down. 5th grade boy humor of the potty variety. Literally. Plungers, toilets, manure, etc. The things I'm willing to read just because there isn't much around...
The humorous story of a small town in Kansas called Paitence, and their history. This unforgettable story of three friends, a World Series Game, and a toilet plunger is not likely one you will forget.
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