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Nine Digits
Nine Digits tells the story of Nee-Nee Marcus, a headstrong 15 year old girl from Philadelphia, who despises her her clueless parents, her nasty brothers, her evil sister. She would do anything to be free of them. When she hears about a new reality television program that will award a prize of $100 million, she decides she'll do whatever it takes to win. Money may not be everything, but with $100 million she is pretty sure that she will never have to deal with her family again..."Nine Digits is the best book since The Phantom Tollbooth."-Tim Grose"Daniel Pinkwater, move over. Here comes Jay Duret. If you have ever been or ever will be a teenager wanting to dump your family, read this wildly funny, page-turner of a book."-Mally Cox-Chapman, author Baggywrinkle
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First published November 26, 2014
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November 15, 2017
Wow. Talk about a dysfunctional family. The Marcus' take it to a whole new level of oddball behavior--yikes.
Nine Digits is the story about a family with some serious inner turmoil getting chosen to appear on the world's greatest new Reality TV show, along with two other families. The grand prize is an unfathomable $100,000,000. A hundred million bucks goes to the winner of the Nine Digits show. The only problem is that the two other families, The Perfects and The Ponchatrains, are all highly-intelligent, highly-motivated, highly-skilled families, from the kids on up.
The Marcus' don't stand a chance at winning, especially with all their bickering and incapability of working together as a team. But the TV audiences all over the world love their wacky behavior, and their bizarre chemistry. But as the TV cameras continue to roll, week after week ...the Marcus family actually begins to rely on each other, then ultimately catch up and become contenders.
Duret does a nice job of bringing it all together, wrapping things up nicely. Things don't turn out exactly how the Marcus' planned, but it brings them closer as a family--slightly less dysfunctional, and in far better shape than when they first started on the TV show called Nine Digits.
Nine Digits is the story about a family with some serious inner turmoil getting chosen to appear on the world's greatest new Reality TV show, along with two other families. The grand prize is an unfathomable $100,000,000. A hundred million bucks goes to the winner of the Nine Digits show. The only problem is that the two other families, The Perfects and The Ponchatrains, are all highly-intelligent, highly-motivated, highly-skilled families, from the kids on up.
The Marcus' don't stand a chance at winning, especially with all their bickering and incapability of working together as a team. But the TV audiences all over the world love their wacky behavior, and their bizarre chemistry. But as the TV cameras continue to roll, week after week ...the Marcus family actually begins to rely on each other, then ultimately catch up and become contenders.
Duret does a nice job of bringing it all together, wrapping things up nicely. Things don't turn out exactly how the Marcus' planned, but it brings them closer as a family--slightly less dysfunctional, and in far better shape than when they first started on the TV show called Nine Digits.
November 10, 2015
I love an underdog story and this is a great one about a wonderfully awkward, dysfunctional family coming together to prove to the world (the TV world anyway) that they can achieve anything! The quirky characters are fun and interesting (even the ones you love to hate).
I like the approach to our modern day obsession with reality television. This book is a nice "sneak peek" at what it might look like behind the scenes. Even though the concept itself is incredibly exaggerated.
My only complaint would be that sometimes the character's names can be overcomplicated which makes it a little difficult to remember who everyone is, and which side they are on.
I like the approach to our modern day obsession with reality television. This book is a nice "sneak peek" at what it might look like behind the scenes. Even though the concept itself is incredibly exaggerated.
My only complaint would be that sometimes the character's names can be overcomplicated which makes it a little difficult to remember who everyone is, and which side they are on.
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