
Heck
Where the Bad Kids Go
Author: Dale E. Basye
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Unabridged: 6 hr 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 11/09/2010
Categories: Children's Fiction

Author: Dale E. Basye
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Unabridged: 6 hr 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 11/09/2010
Categories: Children's Fiction
Dale E. Basye has written stories, essays, and reviews for many publications and organizations. He was a film critic, winning several national journalism awards, and the publisher of an arts and entertainment newspaper called Tonic. He lives with his wife and son in Portland, Oregon.
I had a lot of fun writing this book. It was very cathartic. I read the Advanced Reader Copy while I was immersed in the second book, and I was surprised that I still enjoyed it. Sure, there are things I would change now, but this experience—writing my first book—made me realize that one could very......more
Brother & sister (Milton & Marlo Fauster) die in a freak accident and are condemed to eternal "darnation" as punishement for their earthly sins...a place tailor made for the sins of youth. I liked this book initially, for the imagniative writing and scaled-down paralells to Dante, but I came to think......more
Siblings Marlo and Milton die from a marshmallow accident and end up in Heck, a kind of reform school and holding place for kids under the age of 18. Marlo, supposedly, is deserving of Heck, but Milton is placed there due to a clerical error. There are lots of icky details as the two, joined soon by......more
Hm. I think I would have enjoyed this if I read it at the age it’s intended for. A lot of puns and sarcastic humor that, while I didn’t find it very funny, would have hit the mark fairly close in my early teens. I probably won’t continue with this series but it was fun nonetheless.......more