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Parasite Pig | 
 enlarge | Author: William Sleator
Publisher: Puffin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 76059
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0142400866
EAN: 9780142400869
ASIN: 0142400866
Publication Date: February 9, 2004
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Product Description
Barneys stuck at a boring after-school job, earning money to repay his parents after their beach house is destroyed in a battle with aliens. Of course, they don't believe that aliens did the damage. No one, in fact, realizes that sixteen-year-old Barney saved the world by outsmarting the visitors at their violent game, Interstellar Pig. No one but the aliensand for them the game is far from over. Barney is about to become the unwilling partner of a chatty intestinal parasite; the potential snack of giant, man-eating crabs; and the competitor of a stinger-happy seven-foot wasp woman. Life just got a lot more interesting....
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 Just what I expected having read the prequel March 20, 2008
Chronologically, this book continues where the old one left off, but steers the story in a new direction: Barney is infected with a parasite named Toxoplasma. Like its Earth namesake, it makes him attracted to animals that want to eat him. One unusual element of style in this book is that Sleator intersperses scenes told from the point of view of the parasite with the regular Barney narrative. Thus we know a lot more about what is going on than the protagonist does. But at no point does this lead to future events in the story being spoiled. The ending is neither a surprise nor is it easily predictable: it's just perfect. I'm rating the book five stars for being exciting enough to get me to read it all in one sitting while the plumber was drilling away next to me trying to fix my bathroom.
Parasite Pig January 25, 2007
Also known as the sequel to "Interstellar Pig". Filled with the same exciting main character, Barney, this sequel continues on the legacy of the game Interstellar Pig.
Barney and his friends start playing the game Interstellar Pig again. But this time, it's different. A new person, Julian, joins them in the game. A new holographic person... who is really a worm in disguise. Later on, Barney and his human friend, Katie, discover that one of their friends is a creature too. As they find out more things that they have never imagined, the game continues on.
I think this is a great book, because it's filled with action and mystery. I would really reccomend this book to anyone, especially people who love mystery and action.
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P.Z.
P.Z. January 25, 2007
This is the sequel to Interstellar pig. With the same characters and exciting plot, William Sleator really makes this a fantastic story.
Barney and his friends play Interstellar Pig again, like last summer. Only this time, a new person joins in. A new holigraphic person, or worm. Barney's friends are suspicious of Julian, the new person. Later, they find out that one of their friends are creatures too. Barney and his human friend, Katie, begin to explore the new creatures and new worlds as the game begins again.
I think this is a great book because it's very exciting and fantasy filled. When you read the first page, you can't stop, the book is filled with action and mystery, making you want to finish the book in one day. I would definitely reccomend this book to everyone, especially if they like action filled stories.
--P.Z.
Galaxy Adventure May 4, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Barney is out one night walking his dog, Chang, when he's abducted. Julian beams Barney into his ship to take him to J'koot to find the Interstellar Piggy so he can win the game. But Matt abducts Katie, Barney's friend , so he can get the piggy first. Once they reach J'koot Katie and Barney are captured by man eating crabs, who take them to Death Palace to pamper them. The crabs pamper and feed the two teens to make them nice and fat. But Katie doesn't fall for it, she cuts down on her meals for all of the meals are fatening. Barney on the otherhand eats like he's never eaten before, and becomes fat. Julian has a plan for them to escape, but it doesn't work because the parasite in Barneys brain ruins it. While Barney, Katie, Moyna, Jrlb, and Moyna are all disguised as aliens and about to escape out of the Death Palace, when Madame Gondii uses her hormones to make the disguise disapear. Katie and Barney escape from the crabs, lichen, aliens, and the piggy takes the parasite out of Barneys brain and puts it in a crabs body, Mademe Gondii can have her babies.Katie and Barney have the Intersellar Piggy and they get beamed into Julians ship when Soma,Matt, appears but it is too late the piggy has been dumped into a galaxy trash can flying faster than light. I recommend this book to Science Fiction fans who love page turners.
Madame Gondii is a very selfish parasite living in a cyst in Barneys brain. She wanted Barney to get eaten by crabs, so she could escape into the crabs body, take it over, and have her babies. Madame Gondii also didn't like Katie because she had an effect on Barney that made him listen to her instead of Madade Gondii's hormones. Also she sent out tracking hormones to Julian to help him find Barney, who was immune to the lichen, who had the piggy, so Barney could be sent to J;koot where the crabs were.
Barney never knew he had a parasite in his brain until it was too late. All this time when he thought he was acting different it was really Madame Gondii sending hormones through his blood. When Julian and Katie tried to tell him what was making him not be scared of the crabs was the parasite in his brain, she blocked out his hearing. While Katie and Julian are talking about there escape plan they dont want the parasite to hear it, so Barney had to go into his room; he had to force himself to sit there and read a book even with Madame Gondii's powerful hormones.
The crabs seemed so nice to the Katie and Barney when they were really trying to make them fat so they could grill their bodies. The crabs give them a suite, like in a hotel, with two bedrooms, a living room, two bathrooms, and a mini fridge with free snacks; to calm them down and make them feel like they are at a resort and not a Death Palace. Every day Katie and Barney were fed scrumptious fatening meals that any child would love only to make them fat. Also there was a mud bath, steam room, and a pool to keep them busy, when it was really a way to gather their sweat for a sauce for when they cook them.
Parasite Pig is an excellent Sci-Fi book filled with adventure and many aliens and exotic characters. Barney and his friend, Katie, are in for a deadly adventure on the planet, J'koot. Barney thinks it will be a blast until he's captured by the legendary canible crabs. Now he must escape from the crabs and get the Piggy from the lichen before it explodes. I recommend this book to people who love science fiction, adventure stories filled with many surprising events.
T.Brown
 horror story July 29, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
mr. sleator took all the old and new characters and changed them from the mysterious, playful, exciting first book to a slightly less interesting, depressing format on another planet. I especially did not enjoy how barney went from being a sweet innocent child in interstellar pig to a cold hearted killer in the sequel.I have questions as to how humans were previously on the planet of the crabs and by the end of the second book it was a little ridiculous that barney should be the only one to undersand the truth about the piggy seeing as how the piggy exhibits such consistent behavior.I felt that the book went from playful in the first book (PG rated) to the new book which could be rated R for violence. The ending was very violent and morbid. I really do enjoy mr. sleator's books since my own teen years but I felt the new book, although good, was too discordant from the first book.
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