All the stories in this book were either scary, exciting ,reliving, FUNNY. I've now read four of Paul Jennings books, Unbearable was the last one I read. It really kept me wanting to read more. I would stay up late with a flash light under the covers so I could read what was going to happen next. Highly recommended if you want a good book.

An Excellent book with many little stories with superb endings. Buy it and you WILL NOT regret it. Nice Cover too !!!

This was an amazing book! The short stories are really wonderful and I know I would be visibly enlightened if I knew where Paul Jennings gets his inspiration. I really loved at the very very end about him and how he used to roll a ball of yarn under his bed to check if there were any monsters or such creatures, where on earth could he dream up such a fantastic idea and at such a young age! This book is truly stunning and if you love laughing, you'll love "Uncanny!"

This is a wicked book! Heaps of short stories, its sooo funny! Each has a funny and suprising, sometimes even scary, twist at the end. I would read it if I were you.

My son really enjoys all the Franklin books. They all teach lessons to children that they can relate to. Franklin's Class Trip teaches children that they don't have to be afraid of new things.

An excellent book, finally Banjamin on photography and cinema is available in english. Reading his essay on Chaplin is extremely illuminating concerning the question of the passage from silent film to sound film. His concept of critique, as well as his concept of "making history" lies in this text.

I was introduced to this book by a visiting British teacher. She shared it with my fifth grade class. I began reading the tales to my students and I was hooked! The stories are entertaining and perplexing. The endings surprise adults as well as children. After reading part of "There's No Such Thing" to the class, they created their own endings to the story. Their work was the best writing they had created all year!

I read the first story in this book, on my way home from school. The other stories I've just finished except for a few that I read the day I borrowed the book from the library. The stories are creative, and imaginative. Most of them are funny except for maybe one, about a fox, but they are all worth reading.

We've loved Paul Jennings since discovering him while visiting friends in Australia. The stories are funny and well written. Kids can identify with the main characters, because there is a certain real-ness to their lives, within which very strange things happen. Every story is totally enjoyable for kids and parents alike, and leaves both with things to think about. Highly recommended.

My grandmother was married to Harry Young. After she passed away is when we really found out about him from letters, pictures, and newspaper clippings that she had. We had alot of questions and finding/reading this book answered alot of them. It is a great book.

Great reference for all aspects of this subject. Use it every week. Highly recommended for novice-expert.

Its even better than the previous edition. Check my comment in the previous edition's review. Good work Roger Jennings and Group.

Along with Robert Cowart & Kenneth Greg's book on the WindowsNT Bible which is for beginners, this book by Roger Jennings is the BEST that is available for NT.

As the story goes, Orwell was engaged to write a story about the then massive unemployment in the North of England.

The first few chapters recount Orwell's experience in a working-class boarding house and then underground with coal miners...and they are fascinating. Orwell's deft talent for recounting the subtle is well demonstrated in these compelling and often hilarious early chapters...

and then it happens.

Orwell's insights into class distiction are well known, and way too often shared, especially here. Orwell cheaps out by prattling on about why he thinks no one really wants true socialism and blah, blah, blah.

Even cheaper(!), Orwell constantly references already written works to demonstrate his point. So much so, that any reader would be vastly better off reading Orwell's fabulous semi-biographical "Down and Out in Paris and London" instead.

If you decided to read this book, I think you can guiltlessly toss it aside after the coal mining recallections.

A politically niave and socially ignorant work of at least admirable intentions. A worthy read, but one should approach it with a cynical and open mind. Do not let Orwell spoon feed you with his prejudice. He attacks the entire middle class for being of one particular type and seeing the working class as another diametrically opposed type without seeing that he himself is guilty of the same crime, although the victims may be less 'worthy'. There is no blurring of the line, no consideration for specialist cases. Orwell's world is black and white, but mostly black. His views of socialists are appalling, as is his argument in favour. The heavy-handed emotive poignancy of the first half of the book is excessive in parts, although Orwell's descriptions of various wives in the same half of the book are utterly beautiful and make the book a must-read on their own. Any would-be socialists should read this, just for the feeling of indignant rage it gives you. Students of social policy or economic conditions in 1930s Britain will need to take it with a whole sack of salt.

Still, a massively entertaining and thought-provoking read. Go on, try it.

When I was in high school in the 'sixties, I had to make a joint book report on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984 for an American History class. I was so annoyed with this assignment that I wrote a vehemently nasty review. The teacher was vastly amused. He suggested that I read Road to Wigan Pier. I couldn't see anyway to niggle out of reading it, so I settled down to read it as perfunctorily as possible and still be able to convince the teacher that I had given it due thought. Instead, as I read, I became enthralled by Orwell's descriptions of life in a bleak industrial town in the north of England. I gained new respect for Eric Blair; I still didn't like 1984, but I understood better where he was coming from and why he wrote it.

I've thought about Road to Wigan Pier many times in the intervening years, and I just recently re-read it. It is still just as powerful and despairing. The non-fiction beats the fiction any day. I have an insig! ! htful teacher to thank for recommending this book.