If I could be a character from this book it would be:
Harry: I wouldn't want to be any of the characters. They don't have anything that I like. Almost everybody in the book got bitten.
Eva: I wouldn't want to be any of the characters. I wouldn't want to be Tuna because she went from being abused by her father to being on a TV set where everyone was getting wounded.
Cam: I could dress up as a zombie if I was Wahoo because his missing thumb would be cool and creepy.
Would you watch Derek Badger's show?
Eva: It would depend on how much I knew was being faked and how much was real.
Cam: Most survival shows seem more realistic than this one.
Harry: I wouldn't watch the animal eating scenes.
Do you like Mickey?
Eva: He was kind of crazy in that he antagonized Tuna's father when he had a gun.
Harry: He didn't like animals to be picked on.
Cam: Or kids.
Would you want to have Wahoo's job?
Eva: No. Because it's really dangerous and I can see that Derek Badger is the kind of person who wanted all of the wildlife scenes to be real and that's just dangerous.
Harry: I wouldn't want the job. Eva's reasons and the biting reason.
Cam: I would want to have Wahoo's job because it's interesting and I've always wanted to work with really strong animals. I love snakes. When I held reptiles during the Summer Reading Program, I realized that I really like reptiles.
Eva: I thought of another reason. I really don't like snakes.
Did you think that Tuna should have run away from her father?
Eva: I think that she should have because her father had a gun so she really couldn't fight back when he was abusing her.
Harry: I think she should have run away. Her dad was horrible. In the end, she got away from her dad and he was arrested.
Cam: And no one got killed. Except for Mickey's toe.
Did you like the author's style? With the humor? And also the cliffhangers at the end of the chapters?
Harry: The writing style gets you hooked in and makes you keep reading.
Eva: I thought that since Mickey was one of the main characters, he wouldn't die.
They got into a discussion about Lemony Snicket and the "deaths" in that series.
Eva: It would depend on how much I knew was being faked and how much was real.
Cam: Most survival shows seem more realistic than this one.
Harry: I wouldn't watch the animal eating scenes.
Do you like Mickey?
Eva: He was kind of crazy in that he antagonized Tuna's father when he had a gun.
Harry: He didn't like animals to be picked on.
Cam: Or kids.
Would you want to have Wahoo's job?
Eva: No. Because it's really dangerous and I can see that Derek Badger is the kind of person who wanted all of the wildlife scenes to be real and that's just dangerous.
Harry: I wouldn't want the job. Eva's reasons and the biting reason.
Cam: I would want to have Wahoo's job because it's interesting and I've always wanted to work with really strong animals. I love snakes. When I held reptiles during the Summer Reading Program, I realized that I really like reptiles.
Eva: I thought of another reason. I really don't like snakes.
Did you think that Tuna should have run away from her father?
Eva: I think that she should have because her father had a gun so she really couldn't fight back when he was abusing her.
Harry: I think she should have run away. Her dad was horrible. In the end, she got away from her dad and he was arrested.
Cam: And no one got killed. Except for Mickey's toe.
Did you like the author's style? With the humor? And also the cliffhangers at the end of the chapters?
Harry: The writing style gets you hooked in and makes you keep reading.
Eva: I thought that since Mickey was one of the main characters, he wouldn't die.
They got into a discussion about Lemony Snicket and the "deaths" in that series.
Would you be able to do Raven Stark's job?
Eva: No. Because she has to handle Derek Badger's craziness.
Harry: She got to see all of the blunders on the reel at the year-end party though.
Cam: And tantrums.
Eva: Derek Badger is definitely a handful.
Do you think that Derek is a bad person or he's just clueless? Did he learn from his mistakes?
Cam: He's clueless and spoiled.
Harry: He's an idiot and spoiled.
Harry: He got fired because he wanted a higher salary. I think that after saving everyone's lives, he deserved more that getting fired.
Eva: Even though he thought he was a vampire, he's still pretty nice. I thought that when he was trying to save the others, he was a different person. But then when he realized he wasn't on camera, he showed that he was back to his old self.
Harry: Everyone has a moment of goodness. And they deserve recognition if they become a better person, even if for only just a moment.
Do you think that Mickey should have taken the job at the end of the book?
Harry: The show would always involve animals getting hurt and Mickey can't stand that. I'm the same as Mickey that way.
Cam: If Derek were still on the show, Mickey could get back at him in a funny way.
Harry: By doing that, he'd only give him more to get back at.
Eva: I would think that he should take the job. He still needs money.
Funny moments:
Cam: Quote: "Don't worry; I'll treat them like they're my own." Response: "That's what I'm afraid of." When he gets chomped by the bat. When the salamander goes up his shorts. The part where he climbs up a tree and tries to secure his position with a cheap copy of a Swiss Army knife.
Eva: I thought that the funniest part was when the bat chomped on his tongue. It stayed on his tongue. Mickey knew to tickle the bat to get the bat off Derek's face.
Harry: Still thinking...one of them was when he tried to get an eagle egg. When he got to the bottom of the tree, park rangers were there who banned him from National Parks for the rest of his life. One of the funniest parts was Derek Badger's funniest moments. This would make a great movie.
Eva: Another funny part was when he was on a tree branch upside down and he thought he might grow wings and become a vampire.
Harry: Once he was fired, I bet they posted all of Derek's blunders on YouTube.
Eva: I think that they should have made a TV show called "Derek Badger's Funniest Moments".
Cam: All of the clips put together could be called "Expedition Survive-Fail".
Eva: "This is the real in reality TV."
If you could have a reality show, what would it be about and what it be called?
Harry: I would make something like Mythbusters or Cryptids. I might make something like that. Like Finding Bigfoot.
Eva: I have 2 ideas. The first would be to go to many different places and see the owls there. The second would be to go to places that had temples and ruins from when people believed in gods and goddesses.
Harry: I would name mine Urban Legends Revealed and the other Hunters of the Cryptids. They would both talk about different things.
Cam: I have to think about it. Maybe Hunting Down Sasquatch.
Comments from Andreas and Cameron:
Chomp was a great book! There were some really big cliff hangers and scary details like the shootings and the bitings. I also read the other books in the series as well. Hoot and Flush were the best because it had the most suspense.- Andreas
AND
I read Chomp, and I realllllly enjoyed it. The beginning was a little slow, but when Derek Badger came, the book really picked up. My favorite character was Mickey Cray, because not only was he an all around cool dude, but he was funny when he talked with Derek and made fun of him. A lot of the things Mickey said put a grin on my face. Also, Mickey was risk-taking when he put himself in harm's way to give Wahoo and Tuna and Link a chance to go to Sickler's dock and get away from Tuna's father. I really liked the book. -Cam
Please rate this book from 1-5, with 5 being the best:
Eva: 2-2.75 It was hard to get into in the beginning. It went from interesting to not interesting to interesting and on and on.
Cam: 5.5 It was the best one I've read. It was extra good.
The book for the next Book Club meeting is Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier. We will be meeting on Wednesday, December 11th at 3:00 p.m. Copies of this book will be available behind the Circulation Desk within the next few days. Please come with recommendations for December's Book Club selection. Thanks!
