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Eight Days of Luke Diana Wynne Jones 9780064473576 Books

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Eight Days of Luke Diana Wynne Jones 9780064473576 Books

Diana Wynne Jones work is always delightful, and this book is no exception. If you're familiar with Nordic legend, you'll recognize characters as they are introduced. If not, you'll find out by the end!

David is really only interested in cricket and avoiding his disagreeable relatives. (He's orphaned, and forced to live with them. For which they expect him to be grateful, since they would rather he wasn't.) Normally, he lives away at school; but holidays happen, and this time his guardians misread the schedule and haven't set up a camp or tour to keep him away. Unpleasantness ensues. In despair, David retreats to the foot of the garden, and shouts out a nonsense curse, using words he makes up on the spot, to relieve his feelings.

But words have power, and saying things when you don't know what you're saying can be dangerous. The "curse" turns out not to be nonsense after all, but words that release a prisoner from long bondage, and start a series of adventures that teach David a number of valuable lessons, and change his life completely.


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Eight Days of Luke Diana Wynne Jones 9780064473576 Books Reviews

Meeting the Norse gods in the clear light of day, each on their own days. A mortal boy is friends with the bad boy, Luke (Loki), and things get out of hand.
Diana Wynne Jones is an excellent young adult author. I have enjoyed all of her books. They are nice, light and carefree reads where I can escape from my regular life. ;) (I am NOT classified as a young adult!!)
One of my favorite books, read when I was younger. It's a marvelous story for anyone who likes Norse mythology and retellings of myths.
another good one by DWJ
This is not, in my opinion, the best story Diana Wynne Jones has ever written, but it is still a good story, and a fun read. The one thing I think would help it out would be to put the postscript at the beginning, so readers could understand more about the characters and the meaning of the escapades. Even with a classical education, and eight years at university resulting in three degrees, I found myself not always up on what the Norse gods were up to.And it helped to know.
I have been drinking in all Diana Wynne Jones books lately because they are all so fun to read. This book is certainly no different in that aspect. It is, in my opinion, fairly difficult to find good books that most girls AND BOYS might enjoy reading. This is one of them.

The plot can simply take on the fun summertime adventures of a lonely boy and his new friend, or an older reader (such as myself) can enjoy the personification of the Norse gods and their interactions with humans.

I will not go into the plot any further than I briefly have, but I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a fun, relaxing read.
With Mrs. Wynne Jones' full permission of course (they're great friends). This is a very entertaining book with a story featuring events not unlike those of the children in A Series Of Unfortunate Events, or probably more to the point, all of Dickens' hapless child protagonists. Still, it has all the hallmarks of the best DWJ stories a feisty, resourceful hero, other characters who are, somewhat frighteningly, not what they seem, and sudden trips to magical landscapes which appear just around the corner from one's otherwise normal town. It's a wonderful book to read aloud.
Diana Wynne Jones work is always delightful, and this book is no exception. If you're familiar with Nordic legend, you'll recognize characters as they are introduced. If not, you'll find out by the end!

David is really only interested in cricket and avoiding his disagreeable relatives. (He's orphaned, and forced to live with them. For which they expect him to be grateful, since they would rather he wasn't.) Normally, he lives away at school; but holidays happen, and this time his guardians misread the schedule and haven't set up a camp or tour to keep him away. Unpleasantness ensues. In despair, David retreats to the foot of the garden, and shouts out a nonsense curse, using words he makes up on the spot, to relieve his feelings.

But words have power, and saying things when you don't know what you're saying can be dangerous. The "curse" turns out not to be nonsense after all, but words that release a prisoner from long bondage, and start a series of adventures that teach David a number of valuable lessons, and change his life completely.