The Big Kerplop!: The Original Adventure of the Mad Scientists' Club (Mad Scientist Club)

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This Hardcover Book item from Purple House Press was reviewed on 12-Dec-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book The Big Kerplop!: The Original Adventure of the Mad Scientists' Club (Mad Scientist Club) by Purple House Press. It was wonderful to finally learn how the Mad Scientists Club was formed, and exactly why Harmon Muldoon became their arch-enemy. It also made sense of a lot of things in the later books; the association with the airforce, why the Mad Scientists were so close to the old quarry, why Jeff was president and how Freddy came to be a permanent fixture despite his lack of scientific aptitude; Freddy just about stole the show with his smart mouth and talking back at the airforce officers. And we get an education out of it as well when the boys use orienteering, mathematics, reasoning and connections to extrapolate the information they need to work out the location of the sunken missile, proving it to the authorities, and finally the salvage operation. Adults will love the education-made-entertaining side while children will love the action and surreptitious adventure taken under cover of darkness, the tongue-in-cheek humour and smartass kids who don´t hesitate to give lip when the need arises, and kids proving to grownups that they should never underestimate kids. What kid wouldn´t want to do what the Mad Scientists accomplish in this adventure?

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2) Hardcover Book The Big Kerplop!: The Original Adventure of the Mad Scientists' Club (Mad Scientist Club) by Purple House Press. I fell in love with the original "Mad Scientists´ Club" when I was a boy. To be able to read this little known "prequel" is great! The story is fun and surprisingly plausible for the most part. The writing is a little choppy at times (which may reveal some editing the author didn´t have a part in) but nothing that detracts from enjoying the story. This tale brings me back to when I was a child and life was a lot more innocent and fun! Enjoy this book as a family!¤

3) Hardcover Book The Big Kerplop!: The Original Adventure of the Mad Scientists' Club (Mad Scientist Club) by Purple House Press. I enjoyed the Mad Scientists´ Club since the 4th grade. When I found them on Amazon I started to read them again. This is a good story with a few problems I see. It is interesting but the first 2 MSC book´s story are better. I will explain without giving the story details away.

I know it is written for a "young adult," but the details of how the club is formed are not very memorable. Instead, it is the problem that causes them to form that is huge. But I still wanted more background information. Secondly, I want to no why no other mad scientist other than Henry can think of a plan. Lastly, I don´t think the format of one story, the entire book, instead of the usual many short stories, suits the Mad Scientists. There were times when the story didn´t flow well.

Now the good: This is a great book for kids (and adults alike). If you have any interest in the Mad Scientist you are going to want to know how they got started. (Although I´m not sure how such a grand adventure ties into the other books.) But what makes these Mad Scientists´ books stand out is how they go about solving real world problems. And this book being such a grand adventure, it is what makes you keep reading the book to find out how they solve the problem. And I could see this intriguing the minds of young readers.

So where is Mammoth Falls located? This story gives some clues such as the leaves changing, within 2 hours for Aberdeen base, and some other clues. So even though Mammoth Falls is supposed to be factitious we get some details of where is the US it is located.

The book is easy to follow and well worth the read. It will be enjoyed by younger readers. And although it is not the best Mad Scientists´ book, it is good. Get it to complete your Mad Scientists´ collection.¤

4) Hardcover Book The Big Kerplop!: The Original Adventure of the Mad Scientists' Club (Mad Scientist Club) by Purple House Press. The Mad Scientists Club series of stories is great for sixth through high school. It uses humor, pranks, and
imagination to portray developing minds, and interests them in science, and good works through a knowledge
of science and scouting.¤

5) Hardcover Book The Big Kerplop!: The Original Adventure of the Mad Scientists' Club (Mad Scientist Club) by Purple House Press. I searched for this book for years. I loved and still love both the original and The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists´ Club, and so I scoured bookstores to try to find this elusive prequel (only a thousand copies printed in 1974). Then came this reprint, and I ordered it and was promptly disappointed.

There´s only three chapters that have anything like the earlier works - the boys out in a boat on a lake at night, evading the police in a search boat. Good stuff. But the rest of the novel is all about the town councilors and police chief and reporters and Air Force officers. They just go on and on about nothing, so that you start flipping ahead to get back to the boys.

If you were to cut all that out, you´d get a story the length of one of the originals, but even then this story doesn´t work because the boys don´t actually have much of a hand in the outcome of the story. And it bogs down, as when, at the end, the general goes off to oversee the diving, and the boys are taken to a hotel restaurant by a reporter. We´re then given two full pages describing the hotel, and then another page of talking about food, and finally they get back to the fact that they need a way to get to the lake. Even then, when they get there, everything goes basically well, and they get celebrated, so that there´s no surprises or action or interesting climax at all.

In short, as much as I´d love to praise this book, you might find it best to stick with the originals.

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6) Hardcover Book The Big Kerplop!: The Original Adventure of the Mad Scientists' Club (Mad Scientist Club) by Purple House Press. The whine of jet engines thunders from above as the giant Air Force bomber makes its approach to Westport Field. Suddenly, the citizens of Mammoth Falls are startled to see the bomb bay doors open and an object drop down, down, directly into Strawberry lake. Splash!

And what is that object? Why a bomb, what else? Not just a common, ordinary, conventional bomb, but an atomic bomb! That´s just the beginning of the latest (actually the first) madcap adventure - book-length this time - of that outrageous, notorious threat to municipal sanity known as The Mad Scientists´ Club. As you know, with these boys anything can happen, and it does!¤

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