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Five Parts Dead
by
Tim Pegler (Goodreads Author)
What do you do when you’ve just lost three of your best mates?
Who do you turn to when your life is suddenly bound to a wheelchair?
Dan has dodged the Reaper again. If he were a cat, five of his nine lives would be gone—when his mates didn’t even get second chances. He’s still grieving their deaths when he’s dragged on a family holiday at a remote island lighthouse.
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Who do you turn to when your life is suddenly bound to a wheelchair?
Dan has dodged the Reaper again. If he were a cat, five of his nine lives would be gone—when his mates didn’t even get second chances. He’s still grieving their deaths when he’s dragged on a family holiday at a remote island lighthouse.
Left alon...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
August 2nd 2010
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Dan ဆိုတဲ့ေကာင္ေလးတစ္ေယာက္ရဲ ့အေၾကာင္းကိုေရးထားတာပါ။ သူ ့မွာအမႊာညီအမ ျဖစ္တဲ့ Mel ဆိုတာရွိတယ္။ အမႊာသာဆိုရတယ္ သူ ့ညီမကအျမဲကံေကာင္းတတ္ျပီး အဆိုးမွန္သမ်ွသူ ့ဘက္မွာခ်ည္းပဲ။
ီDan ဟာသူ ့ရဲ ့ဘ၀ကိုသူ ့ညီမနဲ ့ယွဥ္ျပီးအဆိုးျမင္ေနတတ္သူပါ။ Dan ဟာကံဆိုးမိုးေမွာင္စြာနဲ ့ပဲ ယာဥ္တိုက္မွု
တစ္ခုၾကံဳေတြ ့ခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ Dan ရဲ ့ေျခေထာက္က်ိဳးသြားျပီး သူ ့ရဲ ့အဆိုးျမင္တဲ့စိတ္ကပိုပိုဆိုးလာခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ဒီလိုနဲ ့Dan တို ့ရဲ ့မိသားစုဟာကြ်န္းေလးတစ္ကြ်န္းကိုေပ်ာ္ပြဲစားထြက္ၾကပါတယ္။ အဲဒီကြ်န္းကသူတို ့ေနတဲ့ ဘန္ဂလို အိမ္မွာ သရဲမတစ္ေယာက္ရ...more
ီDan ဟာသူ ့ရဲ ့ဘ၀ကိုသူ ့ညီမနဲ ့ယွဥ္ျပီးအဆိုးျမင္ေနတတ္သူပါ။ Dan ဟာကံဆိုးမိုးေမွာင္စြာနဲ ့ပဲ ယာဥ္တိုက္မွု
တစ္ခုၾကံဳေတြ ့ခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ Dan ရဲ ့ေျခေထာက္က်ိဳးသြားျပီး သူ ့ရဲ ့အဆိုးျမင္တဲ့စိတ္ကပိုပိုဆိုးလာခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ဒီလိုနဲ ့Dan တို ့ရဲ ့မိသားစုဟာကြ်န္းေလးတစ္ကြ်န္းကိုေပ်ာ္ပြဲစားထြက္ၾကပါတယ္။ အဲဒီကြ်န္းကသူတို ့ေနတဲ့ ဘန္ဂလို အိမ္မွာ သရဲမတစ္ေယာက္ရ...more
Haunting… that’s what ties the two stories together. Where on the one hand, there’s Dan struggling with just going on, eaten up both by what’s said but more so by what’s left unsaid. Then on the other, a story of people making do and later doing a most incomprehensible thing... and that would be Lily’s story.
Interesting story, if you look at all the individual elements. There’s Dan and Pip, and how he sees what’s there and what could be. It’s a sweet addition to what’s over all a mish mash of so...more
Interesting story, if you look at all the individual elements. There’s Dan and Pip, and how he sees what’s there and what could be. It’s a sweet addition to what’s over all a mish mash of so...more
I read this because the author is one of three coming to my school next week and I have to say I'm now looking forward to the visit. It's a mix of ghost story, murder mystery (150 years old murder mystery, that is), teen angst and plain old-fashioned holiday mystery of the kind where the kid goes on a holiday he doesn't want to go on and has an adventure that makes him glad he went. Throughout the book, the reader is gradually introduced to Dan's own mystery - what really happened the night of t...more
The detail will leave you breathless, this story will make you think twice and the horror of it all will make you turn, page after page, waiting to find out the truth.
This is one story i will truely cherrish. I loved it. Not only did it hold a mystery to it but the horrific detail is...gut wrenching. I cried at one point in the book which im sure will pull the strings on the hearts of the people who read it.
This book, i would deffinatly recomend it. I loved it through an through. Im sure everyon...more
This is one story i will truely cherrish. I loved it. Not only did it hold a mystery to it but the horrific detail is...gut wrenching. I cried at one point in the book which im sure will pull the strings on the hearts of the people who read it.
This book, i would deffinatly recomend it. I loved it through an through. Im sure everyon...more
Tim Pegler is some sort of plotting genius. He has two timelines, Dan's present day holiday at the island (which also includes flashbacks to his life before the accident) and the second story of the people who lived at the light house which is unveiled through the light house log and some research at a local museum.
The pacing is so well done that everything unfolds brilliantly, always leaving more mystery and secrets for the reader - the whole mass of story and emotions and mystery is all explo...more
The pacing is so well done that everything unfolds brilliantly, always leaving more mystery and secrets for the reader - the whole mass of story and emotions and mystery is all explo...more
Great Australian teen fiction. Set in South Australia, deals with issues of peer pressure, drink driving and the consequences; and even throws in a touch of historical fiction, murder and the paranormal...and then of course, these are all tied together by friend and family relationships!
Quirky, interesting, even a bit gruesome and a great option for reluctant teen readers.
Quirky, interesting, even a bit gruesome and a great option for reluctant teen readers.
Tim's a friend, so I'm biased, but I really liked this YA novel. Made me want to write a story for teens. The beer bottle in the head scene is a gruesome favourite.
Didn't capture my attention, and not my type of book but overall, an interesting book.
In my opinion this book was quite interesting, the themes expressed in this book were exciting
it was quite a enjoyable book and it had a good story line
This book had a weak plot and ending.
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Brilliant read.
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Tim Pegler is a Melbourne-based journalist and YA fiction author. His novels to date are strongly influenced by his time covering crime and social inequity issues as a journalist.
Tim's first novel, Game as Ned, was a Children's Book Council of Australia notable book in 2008. Five Parts Dead was released to critical acclaim in 2010.
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Tim's first novel, Game as Ned, was a Children's Book Council of Australia notable book in 2008. Five Parts Dead was released to critical acclaim in 2010.
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