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01 March 2011
Rave Raz Reviews!
Here's a few ripper reviews for 'Erasmus James & the Galactic ZAPP Machine'...
"DC Green is a sharper, swarthier JK Rowling."
- Derek Rielly, Stab Magazine.
"It's like Harry Potter, but with way funnier jokes!"
- Hayley T, 11 years old.
"DC Green is such a great writer. Oh, I wish I was 14 again! It's like a breath of fresh air to read this whimsical stuff."
- Carol Roach, author & Storytime Tapestry editor.
"This fabulous, fun-filled fable is so good, I was laughing out loud. DC Green's brilliant talent shines through at every turn of this tale. I'm still chuckling at some of the lines."
- Jodi Flesberg Lilly, Ryze Creative Writers Network moderator. www.lightinmotion.net
"Erasmus James & the Galactic Zapp Machine has an exciting plot (complete with timely message) with many an unexpected twist. The language is a mirror to ‘kid-culture,’ and the clever use of word and pun will captivate readers of all ages."
- Jensen Ruehle, Bookmark Australia.
"This is great reading! I laugh out loud every time! And, I never know when the next guffaw will come roaring up!"
- David Moorhead, journalist, web designer, life coach. davidmoorhead.com
"This is a great read for the groms floating around puberty."
- Tracks magazine.
"Erasmus is certainly unique, has heaps of kid appeal and a message or two hidden amongst all the zaniness to boot!"
- Sue Whiting, www.suewhiting.com
"Erasmus James is an awesome read, an absolute corker!"
- Tim Fischer, Australia's Surfing Life magazine.
"I love reading about Erasmus. He has the kind of adventures I had in my head as a kid before the grown up disease got me."
- Maria Stepek Doherty, Storytime Tapestry senior writer. www.chrysalistransformations.com
"DC Green’s use of alliteration is brilliant and his play on words sends me into fits! His imagination is so vivid and deep and so appealing to children... Beneath all this intelligent hilarity is an underlying message about life questions, like facing one's demons/fears and hates as Erasmus does throughout his journey into Uponia."
- Moira Elliott, Pass It On.
"I love this book. It’s funny. It’s adventurous. It’s it’s it’s brilliant!"
- Beth S, 12 years old.
"WOW! I am the Gran of five boys and nine girls aged 18 months to 17.5 years, and I love this book!"
- Judith Bamford, The Buzzing Bees Ezine.
"This story is highly original, humorous, fantastical and will no doubt (in my mind at least) have DC Green being called 'the new Paul Jennings.' I was hooting all the time with laughter."
- Di Bates, author of over 90 books for children. home.pacific.net.au/~dibates
"Thanks heaps for letting me read the book to my class. I read a chapter or so each day and they really enjoyed it, especially the jokes and the naughty bits!"
- Bob Swoope, teacher, Milton Public School.
" Thank you DC Green! The imagery you create is wonderful. I love the dialogue and the way you play with words is awesome."
- Shirley Soodeen, author. pinksooshi.blogspot.com
"Funny funny funny... After a long time, an intergalactic laugh out loud adventure."
- Arjun Chandramohan Bali, screenwriter. balihai.blogspot.com
"DC Green must have a blast writing. It shows. What a fantastic escape from humdrum!"
- Steve Trotter, The National Truth. www.SteveTrotter.com
"Amazingly creative."
- The Illawarra Mercury.
"It is a great shame that I am not a nine-year-old boy. Erasmus James and the Galactic Zapp Machine is weird and warped, including everything from pumpkin-pie eating ninja horses to giant texta wielding birds. It is full of whimsy and cunning... a roller-coaster ride."
- Gillian Polack, As If Reviews.
"DC Green has a gift for crazy gung ho plots and even quirkier frenzied descriptions. But the big reason this book is so wonderful is because it's too funny for words!"
- Sandy Fussell, author.
"I normally wouldn't like something with so much farting in it, but I love-love-loved this book. It's kind of Hitch-hikers Guide crossed with Narnia crossed with Black Beauty and the Goodies. I laughed, I cried, I worried about the author's mental health... Much like that muddy pothole on my grandparents' driveway, Erasmus James and the Galactic Zapp Machine is a lot deeper than it looks."
- Emma Hardman, 2006 ABC Fiction Award runner-up.
"A world of wonder, surprise and great fun awaits readers of Erasmus James and the Galactic Zapp Machine. DC Green has created a joyous comic funfare ride of a book... A brilliant debut novel from a clever and inventive writer. Kids will love this one."
- Bill Condon, CBCA Honor Book of the Year winner.
"An action-packed, humorous adventure which will appeal to upper-primary aged readers. There are plenty of laugh out loud moments, interspersed with action and some gentle messages about family, friendship and even self-belief. Plenty of fun."
- Sally Murphy, Aussie Reviews.
"A rollicking, fart-filled yarn."
- Surfer magazine (USA).
"DC Green is the new Roald Dahl."
- DC Green.
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ReplyDeletei just wanted to say your reviews are incredible. They made me read your 1st 4 chapters. Now i know why you have incredible reviews! Now i have to go out and buy a copy and i don't even have a kid for an excuse!
ReplyDeleteSue Jones,
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I bought this book for my son's friend's birthday. He said it was the funniest book he had ever read and now my book-hating son is reading and laughing it also. A miracle!
ReplyDeleteJohn Giles, Newcastle
dear mr dc,
ReplyDeletestop posting reviews and hurry up and finish the next erasmus book!
and yes i loved the first one - derh!
pauline
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ReplyDeleteli'll miss jebus
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ReplyDeleteTo DC Green,
ReplyDeleteI liked your books, your fiction/ non fiction stories. Your songs were great and I like the killing off people.
I thankyou for the things that we leant to make great stories. I hope that you can come again to teach usmore. I like your show and cant wait to read your books
Hi DC! my name is Jeremy,my nickname is Jem and I loved loved your show (monday 17).You taught me NOT to boungy jump in the nude! Liked your rap too.
ReplyDeleteFrom Jeremy
Cloverdale P.S
ps don't kick serbrus (or Buffhead.)
Hi DC, my name is Isaac and I liked, I mean LOVED your talk which you did on the 17th of August at Cloverdale Primary School. I liked the first page of the Stinky Squad. Ialso liked that you talk about nude bungy jumping and dobby and the machine gun I learnt from you that you need a exciting start, conflict, powerful words, have fun and don't kill your characters at the begining.
ReplyDeleteHi DC Green, performance was Awesome it was hiliariously wart bubbling and imaginative.I like the way you get ingredients from people and make a wicked story.
ReplyDeleteI learnt that to make a good story you need some sort of conflict, an interesting start, exciting words and stuff you already know.
from jesse
cloverdale P.S.
Subject:cloverdale primary school Wart bubbling awesome performance.
ReplyDeleteYo DC thanks for the wart bubbling gross awesome performance. I hope you can come back next year ROCK ON.
THANKS DC GREEN.
heyy DC i'm writing to thank you for your fun, fantastic, exciting, wart bubbling, awsome, imaginative, adventrous, funny, cool, mental, crazy, pyscho, hiliariously horifiying show. I thought it was a snot bag full of adventure. It was a great experience to listen to a real author at my school, and I will be sure to use your great writing tips. Thank you so much
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cloverdale primary school.
to dc thanks for coming to clover dale p.s. we all enjoy your rap danice and your stories . it was very cool.can you come back to cloverdale? some pople said it was boring but i didint. I thuoht it was fantasic and funny
ReplyDeleteby Joshua Thompson
Dear D.C green im kyle from cloverdale primary school i loved your wart bubbling awesome imaaginative adventurous and hiliariously,funny,show P.S i like your books i would like to se some more books
ReplyDeleteHi DC Green
ReplyDeleteMy name is Beltesha.As a student my intrest of writing cool and adventurous, dangerouse stories has become more exciting when you came and told your hiliarious and funny stories. I had a great time listening to your stories.Your stories are full of imagination.You are a very funny author.think you are a very great uthor I learnt alot of things at the show that i did not know about. I wish you would come back to this school with alot of more written books. Iam realy excited. Hope you become a famouse author. you have a cool rap.
I ricate you coming to my school. From Beltesha.
P.S
I hope you come back see you sometimes.
Hi DC Green,
ReplyDeletemy name is Kriya.Thanks for coming to Cloverdale Primary School.Your show was so inspiring to me and most likely other kids as well.i learnt that you can take ideas from what you know and combine them.On the first page of your story you need to pull in the readers so that they will want to read more and more untill your head explodes!By the way YOU'RE THE COOLEST AUTHOR I'VE EVER MET!!I hope your dreams of being called up by a movie director comes true! THANKS AGAIN!
hey DC green you may not remember me but my names Azurah from Cloverdale p.s . look i would just like to say thanks for coming in and talking to us . You are an awesome an outstanding mouthwatering author you were truely hiliariously horrifying . You inspire me even though i want to be a singer i think you put so much creativity into your work that im absoloutly MENTAL youve taught me so much like not to make the person die on the first page .i am so greatful
ReplyDeletethankyou so much bye
Wow, what a great bunch of comments from Cloverdale PS! I had a fantastic time at your school today, doing shows from preschool to Year 7.
ReplyDeleteI hope you guys are inspired to write some amazing stories and win those beanie prizes I left behind!
Yes, I'd love to go back again.
Thanks and happy rapping
DC
Hi my name is Chandice,thank you for coming to Cloverdale P.S because you inspired me that anyone can write anytime they want. Your perfomance was wart bubbling and mental and I learnt that I could make up a story anytime and anywhere
ReplyDeleteThamk you for coming we all had fun and enjoyed
Hi, I'm William and I.m the one that beat bow for you. I ride scooter. Any way where do you live? I like your books, they are gross and awesome.
ReplyDeletehi dc green i really enjoyed your show i hope that the older kids liked your show .it was really wart bubbling . you really have a good imagnation and highly hilarous jokes hope you keep writing .
ReplyDeletedc green your show was amazingly asewome. there were some funny part and some wart bubbling parts.
ReplyDeletei am going to borrow your book stinky sqaud of my freind and i hope i can get 1 of you own book singh for my self it look super gross and funny. i loved your show please come again:)
from jack
hi dc green my name is kathleen from cloverdale p.s and i thought your show was fantastic. I think that your books are fun and fantastic and I wouls like to say thanks for coming. I enjoyed having you here, you were hiliarious. I would love to have all of them except Stinky Squad, I think that's for boys. By the way I am in Year 5. Thanks for coming D C Green
ReplyDeleteHello DC Green my name is Gereleigh
ReplyDeleteI really loved your show at Cloverdale P.S . Wish You will Come back we Would love you back with your humorous stories and your adventurous life but thanks anyway.
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