- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Walker Books Ltd; New edition edition (3 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0744582628
- ISBN-13: 978-0744582628
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,663,536 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A dark, witty story with a strong sense of place and a twisting, turning plot that will appeal to bloodthirsty teenagers of 12 years and above." The School Librarian
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"When you get thirsty, you get angry without reason. Increasingly. You feel prone to violence. You feel prone to drink blood..." Chris just wants to be a normal guy - to hang out with his friends Tom and Jerk, avoid his bickering parents, get a date with Rebecca Schwartz. Lately, though, he's been feeling anything but normal. He has this strange desire, a terrible hunger, a thirst for blood. The truth is unavoidable: Chris is turning into a vampire. While his hometown prepares for the annual Sad Festival of Vampires, an ancient ritual to keep Tch'muchgar, the Vampire Lord, locked in another world, Chris desperately seeks a way out of his dreadful fate. He needs help - but who can he trust? Chet, the oddly cynical Celestial Being? His friends? His family? Can he even trust himself? Time is running out and Chris is so thirsty...
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Fiction teaches us to expect a happy, neat ending. Sure, there are ambiguous endings in many tales, yet rarely in the YA books I've read. Authors and publishers seem to assume that young people need a tidy conclusion where the main character gets out of whatever mess he's in and everything is dandy, except for the bad guys.
Thirsty isn't like that. I don't think it's a spoiler for me to say that it'll surprise you. Chris, the protagonist, narrates with a believable voice whether he's baffled, snarky, whiny, or at the end of his tether. I'm not a teen myself, but I could definitely read echoes of my own adolescence in his characterisation.
This is a novel about alienation, about prejudice, and about regretful choices. It's an intensely personal story from Chris' viewpoint, but he gives enough glimpses into the world he lives in, which parallels our own in disturbing ways, to make it a darkly humourous satire as well.
Recommended.
Thirsty isn't like that. I don't think it's a spoiler for me to say that it'll surprise you. Chris, the protagonist, narrates with a believable voice whether he's baffled, snarky, whiny, or at the end of his tether. I'm not a teen myself, but I could definitely read echoes of my own adolescence in his characterisation.
This is a novel about alienation, about prejudice, and about regretful choices. It's an intensely personal story from Chris' viewpoint, but he gives enough glimpses into the world he lives in, which parallels our own in disturbing ways, to make it a darkly humourous satire as well.
Recommended.
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The main characters are Chris (the main main character), Chris's mum dad, Chris's brother, Chet is a inhuman
(not a vampire), Jeck and Tom are friends, Rebecca Schwartz is a girl who Chris has a crush on
The town where they live is where vampires are and they are going to release the vampire lord at the Sad Festival of Vampires. Chris the main character is turning into a vampire this starts near the ending of chapter 1 when a female vampire is going to be killed and she looks at Chris as if she knows him and then dies.
Soon Chris is feeling thirsty at night time and nothing he eats or drinks can quench his thirst. The ending was quite sad.
I don't have a favourite and least favourite character because I don't like the characters
It was scary and exciting at the same time because it made me want to read it more to find out what was going to happen next in the book.
(not a vampire), Jeck and Tom are friends, Rebecca Schwartz is a girl who Chris has a crush on
The town where they live is where vampires are and they are going to release the vampire lord at the Sad Festival of Vampires. Chris the main character is turning into a vampire this starts near the ending of chapter 1 when a female vampire is going to be killed and she looks at Chris as if she knows him and then dies.
Soon Chris is feeling thirsty at night time and nothing he eats or drinks can quench his thirst. The ending was quite sad.
I don't have a favourite and least favourite character because I don't like the characters
It was scary and exciting at the same time because it made me want to read it more to find out what was going to happen next in the book.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Complex, disturbing, funny book
9 Dec 2000
Format:Paperback
I was amazed at this powerful story of a young man confronting forces so far beyond his control that every plan he makes, every instinct he has absorbed from the horror movies that he and his friends constantly discussed prove to be woefully inadequate. _Thirsty_ is an amazingly example of a genre writing against itself.
On tap of that, I liked the tone of Anderson's first-person narrator -- sarcastic, confused, but also shy. He's a 15- or 16-year-old guy trying to figure out how the world works -- and if that weren't enoough, he's beginning to suspect he's a vampire and a pawn in a mysterious battle between the Forces of Light and Dark.
I'm going to read everything M.T. Anderson writes for the rest of my life.
21 of 25 people found the following review helpful
You just don't "get it".
21 July 2006
Format:Paperback
I thought those words would never leave my lips (or fingertips), but it does seem that many people who gave negative reviews for this book were missing the entire point, at least as I understand it. It even says in the back of the book that the author wanted to write about how someone can struggle "with the isolation of wanting to do the right thing when there was no right thing to do." The hopelessness of the novel at the end was intentional. There are not always concrete conclusions, let alone HAPPY concrete conclusions. In life, there are no definite beginnings and ends, except for birth and death of course. And that would be a long book. So if it ends on a kind of "well, what now?" note, it's all the more realistic.
The writing style I think is more a matter of aesthetic than anything. I didn't really like it the first time I read it, but it grew on me.
As for Chris, and his personality, it's actually pretty realistic. If I look objectively, I can see a lot of myself in him. Especially me a few years ago when I was his age. For the guy who said he was swept away by other people's actions and never did anything, well, he actually mentions that IN THE NARRATION. That was intentional, too. How many teenagers do you know that actually take charge of their life? I certainly didn't.
And the people who are complaining about vampires being a fact of life, come on man, it's an allegory!
So, ok, this book isn't for everyone, I guess. But before you criticize it, make sure that you're not missing the point.
Then again, maybe I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. In which case, just ignore me.
The writing style I think is more a matter of aesthetic than anything. I didn't really like it the first time I read it, but it grew on me.
As for Chris, and his personality, it's actually pretty realistic. If I look objectively, I can see a lot of myself in him. Especially me a few years ago when I was his age. For the guy who said he was swept away by other people's actions and never did anything, well, he actually mentions that IN THE NARRATION. That was intentional, too. How many teenagers do you know that actually take charge of their life? I certainly didn't.
And the people who are complaining about vampires being a fact of life, come on man, it's an allegory!
So, ok, this book isn't for everyone, I guess. But before you criticize it, make sure that you're not missing the point.
Then again, maybe I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. In which case, just ignore me.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Hilariously wicked vampire story
10 Jan 1999
Format:Paperback
With biting humor, this first-time author offers readers a cynical look at the onset of vampirism coupled with adolescent angst. Chris struggles with a crush, his annoying brother, and his parents' failing marriage. But all of that seems important -- not when the fate of the universe appears to be at stake. A very Buffy-The-Vampire-Esque horror comedy for the slightly darker, simply smarter side of the YA crowd.
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