Despite this being a book read in honor of Father's Day, Charlie Fox's dad isn't the ideal father figure. He could fit into the role of Jack Torrance in Stephen King's The Shining. Allie Fox, from the town of Hadley in Massachusetts, doesn't trust the traditional school system, doesn't trust the government, doesn't trust his neighbors. He believes he can teach his children (Charlie, Jerry and the twins, Clover and April) all they need to know. He doesn't suffer fools and constantly tests his children's courage, especially eldest son Charlie's. He is in constant competition with other men ("How many push ups can you do?"); he is proud, defiant, and must not, absolutely cannot, be embarrassed in front of his family. Fed up with his own country, Papa Fox is easily swayed by Honduran migrant workers to pack up his family and move to the Mosquito Coast. Once there, Theroux threads a growing sense of unease throughout the pages. The first whiff of danger comes with Father jokes about throwing Mr. Haddy overboard and it is possible to believe he is mad enough to have done it. Like Kings's Jack Torrance, Allie Fox displays an escalating sense of craziness as time goes on. Paranoia grows like mold in the jungles of Honduras. It goes without saying that things don't end well for the Fox family; or maybe they do if you like endings like The Shining. ( )

This is a story talk about Allie Fox who is a clever man with a wife and four children. He likes people treated him as a gold and made him own life.He thought the United States was full of rubbish and poisons. So he took the whole family to the mosquito coast, and dreamed of a new life. He made of a invention called fat boy which was help made ice, because he thought it can controlled life ,made people far away from savage as wll. But the truth was they lived like savages, they were dirty and thin ,they need planed seeds, build a hourse and did all the thing by themselves. Although in the end the lake that near they boat-house lifted up and took they boatto the coast, Allie did not realized it is a horrible mistake. The whole book just like kind of adventure story, but did not impressed me especially the end of story. ( )