Reviews for Soup 1776

The average rating for Soup 1776 based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-10-20 00:00:00 Dennis Schoenauer First of Peck's stories I've (re)read since my pre-teen infatuation with them over twenty years ago. I feel now that I was either lacking in intelligence for even that age, or enjoyed being spoken down to. Much of the metaphors and allegories used are either badly done, or for comedy's sake alone. Which got old fairly rapidly, and the whole thing seems very much a rip of Twain's Tom Sawyer, with less controversy and depth of character. I give it three stars because it does lead to a rare chuckle now and then, and having been out of the target audience for a while, I can admit to possibly being harsher than is called for. The Soup stories will still retain a nostalgic appeal, though my getting reacquainted with them could be a decision I'll look at with regret in my dotage.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-06-03 00:00:00 Jaime Ryan Heintz Robert Newton Peck has run out of his own childhood memories and makes a weird, formulaic, anti-PC (this was written in 1995) adventure full of implausible situations and names that aren't quite puns in this fourteenth Soup novel. Best stick with the first few in the series.