This book was amazing. When you read a really good book, you can picture everything that is happening in the book inside of your head, picture all of the characters, the setting, picture what is happening and what their voices are like and all of the details. To me, that is what signifies a really good book. But when you read an absolutely amazing book, you can picture it all in your head, every single detail of what's happening, gut it kind of takes it to another level, you can actually feel like you are there, like you are experiencing the story yourself. Maybe you even make up new characters to put in the book and experience it in a new way, like you are actually one of the characters. This book was absolutely amazing. It just had so much meaning to it, like everything in the book has a deeper meaning than you would at first see. Kind of like Mr.Hampton said, when there is no vision, the people perish. Well, maybe kind of like that. I just thought that this book had a lot of meaning. I love all of the details and everything that was put together in this book, like puzzle pieces that had to be the right shape to fit together and to make the picture, which in this case, is this amazing story. Now to me, it's kind of like, "How could this book be any better?" And then I figure out that it's a true story and I'm just like "OMG! I just figured out how this book could be better! And it is better! I didn't know this was possible!" But really though, usually books that are based on true stories are like bla (at least to me) and those books are below the level of really good. But this book is absolutely amazing, which like the rarest of the rare among books that are based on true stories, and it takes amazing authors to write those kind of books and now I think I know who my new favorite author is. Even though I didn't really have a favorite author before. Another thing that I enjoyed is all of the cliffhangers that were in the book, I personally wrote a story before that was kind of long but not really, and I tried to put a lot of cliffhangers in it (because no story is quite complete without cliffhangers, kind of referring to the puzzle pieces that I mentioned before). But by writing that story, I truly figured out how difficult it can be to put cliffhangers into a story. But these cliffhangers become more important when it is being read aloud, because Mrs.Mueller is always stopping on cliffhangers and the whole class is like "Noooo! Don't stop now!!!" And Mrs.Mueller is like "I guess you have a reason to come back to school tomorrow!" Those cliffhangers are the best. Reading aloud is never quite complete without them. Another one of the puzzle pieces that I think put this book together is all of the details. This puzzle piece is one of the bigger ones that put together the story, and definitely very important. All of the details that were put into this book definitely make it absolutely amazing. I especially loved the beginning of the book, all of the details that were put into the beginning, it just made it absolutely amazing. While Mrs.Mueller was reading aloud, we had a discussion about all of the details that went into the beginning of the book and how it effected the mood that the reader would be experiencing. Through just the beginning you could tell it would be an absolutely amazing book, you already could feel like you were actually there. This just added another layer of awesomeness to the story. One other thing that contributed to make this an absolutely amazing book was the characters. A book usually isn't as good when you aren't attached to the characters. The feeling you get with an absolutely amazing book isn't quite there when you can't feel connected to the characters as if your friends or something. I really loved most of the characters and how Shelly Pearsall made each character have their own unique personalities and character traits, making it so that you feel differently about each and everyone of the characters. When the author doesn't make the characters super awesome like that and your friend comes up and asks "Who was your favorite character in this book?" And then you're like "Uh, well . . . Larry is pretty cool . . . and Jerry is pretty cool . . . and Barry is pretty cool . . . and Terry is pretty cool . . . Garry is pretty cool too . . . and so is Sherry . . . and Mary too . . . I don't know, it's kind of hard to decide." You can tell that the author did not do that great with the characters, but in The Seventh Most Important Thing, I just absolutely love each of the characters. These are probably my top 5 favorite characters in this book. My favorite character is probably the main character-Arthur. I love everything about Arthur. I love how few people just think that he's just the boy from juvenile detention who throws bricks at people because he's a crazy lunatic, but really he is a whole lot more than that. I mean, when he was saving Squeak from the jocks, and the Vice Principal comes and assumes that Arthur is the one who caused the whole situation and was bullying Squeak, but really he wasn't. And then when the Vice Principal says that Squeak said that Arthur was helping him instead of bullying him, he thought that he said that just because he was scared to tell the truth. This was very interesting to me as Arthur really wasn't who many people thought he was. My second favorite character is definitely Squeak. He is super funny and super smart and super small ans super kind and super amazing. I love how he insisted to sit with Arthur at lunch even though Arthur was told never to put a finger on Squeak ever again, and I loved it when Squeak stood up on the cafeteria table with a sign when people were throwing things at them. I thought that part was pretty funny. My third favorite character is Mr.Hampton. I can't quite find a word to sum up Mr.Hampton, he is just . . . amazing. He just had this way of looking deeper into things and to find new meaning in everything, like all of the things he collected, he turned junk into a masterpiece. And he was just interesting, I mean, he made the third throne of heaven, and he called people saints, and just tons of things that make him super unique. He just seems like the ind of person that you could sit down and have a conversation with, but that conversation could go on for days. He was just such an amazing person. My fourth favorite character was Officer Billy. I loved her personality a lot too, like when she interrupted Arthur when he was talking and said stop! I also liked Arthur's first interpretation of Officer Billy, and when she brought him the amazing caramel popcorn, and Arthur was really surprised as he didn't expect something like that from Officer Billy. My fifth favorite character would probably be groovy Jim. You can tell he's a cool guys just by his name, Groovy Jim. I just love how cool this guy is, I mean, he was super kind to Arthur. I mean, he paid $50 bucks so that Arthur could still have the garage to keep Mr.Hampton's masterpiece in. I just think this dude is just amazingly cool. Another thing that I loved about this was all of the extra meaning behind the seven most important things. I loved the chapters that were titled one of the seven most important things. In those chapters one of the seven most important things's meaning in Arthur's life was revealed. It went to a new level and just applied these everyday materials to Something more, something that has a meaning in Arthur's life. I just thought it was amazing how the author applied these things and gave the a completely new meaning, a meaning that was important in Arthur's life. That was pretty cool. One other very small detail that I thought was very interesting was the cover of the book, it was a silver color that was reflective like tin foil. I thought this was pretty cool as the cover related to the seventh most important things in another cool way. I'm not sure if it's just the hardback books that have the silver cover though . . . because I'm pretty sure that the paperback copies are blue. Maybe I'm wrong though. I just kind of noticed that detail and thought it was pretty interesting. But over all, I just thought this book was . . . well, I don't really think I can sum this up without making this response twice as long. I mean, this is my reduced-version, I could make this twice as long and I could just keep going on and on and on and on and on describing all of the things that I loved about this book. But I wont do that because it is getting kind of late and I still have more homework to do, so . . . I will stop I guess. I really enjoyed reading this book and it was just absolutely amazing. I loved this book and it will probably on the top of my book recommendations list. One last thing, the pictures of the masterpiece were stunning, it is just so cool that it was actually made out of those simple items. So cool.