1. Why do people eat pickleburgers and other food that tastes bad? What is the point Pinkwater makes by having people stop eating these bad-tasting foods at the novel's end?

2. Are people ever hounded by newspeople? Do they ever run away from newspeople or try to hide the way the Blatzes do?

3. Does Harold spend his money the way a typical person his age might?

What would most people his age spend money on?

4. Why do Harold's parents let him go live at the Golden Alligator monastery for two years?

5. Why do the Blatzes dislike being famous? Don't most people want to be famous?

6. Do you ever feel lectured in The Last Guru, or does it make its points gracefully?

7. What are some awful-tasting manufactured foods (as opposed to natural foods like liver and Brussels sprouts) that many people eat because they are supposed to...