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Dishes (2008)

by Rich Wallace(Favorite Author)

2.99 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0670011398 (ISBN13: 9780670011391)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Viking Juvenile

review 1: If nothing else Dishes, by Rich Wallace, makes me very grateful that I don’t have the life of an average teenager.This Young adult fiction book takes place in a gay town known as Ogunquit, Maine. This would be the last place i would want to be. But that is just the situation Danny, the main character of the novel, is in while he works the summer away as a dishwasher in a very gay bar called Dishes. Danny is your average teenager at 19. someone I could never stand to be around. he is so laid back that he hardly cares about anything. all he does is sleep, work, hit on his soon to-be-girlfriend, and have a few beers with his dad.his dad, Jack, also works at Dishes. He does almost the exact same thing except he stays out almost all night and almost never see his son... more except for work. i am glad I have a good relationship with my dad and i feel sorry that Danny’s dad isn’t around that much.I didn’t enjoy this book All. I thought of it as a pill of mind numbing garbage and I hope to read nothing like it ever again. I thought the plot was boring and there was almost no conflict. It was nothing more than a guy telling about how he met his girl friend and how his relationship with his dad slowly gets better. The only exciting part was around the end of the book when to employees at Dishes started fist fighting Over Danny (Remember this is a gay town) and that took up all of 2 ½ pages. The rest of the book is Danny talking to his girl friend or his dad about his life and how his happened. This shows that even in real life people are more exciting and have more interesting times then the the guy in this book. I don’t have anything to compare this book with because I don’t, and will hopefully never again, read books like this. I hardly read fiction anyway, and certainly never a book like this.The only big picture I could find is that you should be nice to people you like. And the only reason I got that is because of him trying to make-up lost time with his dad. All and all this book deserves a one star rating. If I had Three words to describe this book they would be as follows: BORING, POINTLESS, and a WASTE OF PAPER.
review 2: Month- FebruaryTitle- DishesAuthor- Rich WallaceDate started/date completed- See InfoTotal Pages-145Rating of book (1-10): Type here- 8Briefly summarize the book- Dishes is about a 19 year old college kid named Danny who comes and lives with his dad in Ogunquit, Maine for the summer. He is a sophomore in college and is coming to build a non-existing relationship with his Dad.Danny works in a gay bar as a dishwasher with his dad: a bartender (neither of them are gay). Danny's co-worker Hector is gay, and coming on to him but eventually Danny lets him down easily on the beach. Then Danny meets a girl named Mercy on one of his daily runs who works at a local restaurant. They like each other and go on a date. She thinks he's confused about his sexuality because he works at a gay bar and they hit a wall temporarily. In the mean time Danny is upset because hes not building a connection with his father, but eventually they have a deeply engaging conversation about his father's absence and everything is much better. Then Danny and Mercy make up after the gay bar team wins the staff baseball game. They go on a romantic date and get caught in the rain! [lol:] After that Danny decides to not go straight back to college in stay in Maine with Mercy for the fall. The End. Author’s purpose- To create a funny mushy teenage book about sports and the importance of relationships.Intended audience(s)- Mostly teens, but anyone with a sense of humor! less

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