
I kind of admire him though for standing up for what he believes in but its kind of unrealistic that it wasn't taken as seriously by him and the cops as I thought it should have. He's pretty unpredictable and is a little over enthusiastic to be in jail. To be honest Noah says something like how his mother has to worry about three children instead of two is right on. He sees something wrong and he acts immediately. Noah's father is the type of person who fights for the little guy. I don't think he necessarily wants you to get in all this trouble (go to jail, get beat up, and almost die!) but you get the gist of it. It's wonderful to get into a book and live in this fantasy but it's also nice when author's show us that there is a world outside of books and that you can change the world. I loved the whole realistic/everyday thing going on with this book. You don't think that good triumphs over evil? Well you are dead wrong there just look at what you can accomplish. You want to take on an everyday bad guy? Well you can. They have this whole innocent I-can-do-anything attitude.

There's just something about them that eases your mind. It's so nice to be reading children's books again. What I got was a slightly long book with characters that proved to be heroic and even inspiring. The thing is I've never really read an "environmental" book so I still didn't know what to expect.

So I had all this in my mind before reading Flush. he's the guy who wrote Hoot - that book/movie featuring Logan Lerman as the MC who tries to fight to save endangered owls. I've always seen Hiaasen around and I always refer to him as that guy who likes to write about the environment i.e.
