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Stowarzyszenie Umarłych Poetów by N.H. Kleinbaum

88 reviews

eleasofia's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

i did not like the book as much as i hoped i would. i was surprised to hear that the movie came before the book, and in this rare case, i would recommend watching the movie and not bothering with the book at all. 

it wasn't terrible, but i didn't take anything new away from it. the story itself is compelling and tackles some heavy and important subjects such as rebellion against conformity, learning to think for oneself, and following dreams one's and passions, but the execution of it in the book lacked so much. the pacing was very fast. the writing wasn't necessarily bad, but also not really descriptive enough. the boys are not that easily distinguishable, have barely any depth to their personalities. everything feels rather vapid. there's not much relationship building going on. everything felt very rash and not well-established. more insights into the thoughts and feelings would've made everything so much more relatable. at least it was short.

on one side note: the scenes with knox gave me tons of secondhand embarrassment, and i hated that.

tldr: great story, bad execution. the book is nothing special. reading it felt like what watching the movie adaptation of a book is often like, just the other way around this time.

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bigbookmaus's review against another edition

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3.5

why oh why the SA scene

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kenyoncannotread's review against another edition

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fast-paced

2.0

Good way to make you potentially think that you now hate a movie that you love. The author been like “How can I be more creepy about women in this one?”

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lentils1012's review against another edition

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funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Well .... I didn't see that coming

We've read this book for school, and since we're a bit under time pressure, I finished it quite fast ig ... but I don't think that was the only reason for the end of it to feel rushed.
In my opinion there was not enough time to process everything that was happening so suddenly.

Another thing:
Metaphorically speaking, I have died of second-hand embarrassment multiple times while reading .
Some parts of the lovestories were just too much. I also didn't get why Chris just forgave Knox for what happend at the party, they didn't even talk about it properly. WHY? (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

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However, overall it wasn't tooooooooo bad though, I liked Mr. Keating's lessons and I think most of them can be important for life. English is my 2nd language, therefore I'm unfamiliar with English poetry so I'm also curious to see what we'll talk about it in class :) 

(I don't think I want to watch the move tho) 

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zneeh's review against another edition

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for the first time i am saying this the movie was so much better than the book.

the author sucked out all of the good things about romance and only left the cheapness behind. what a waste of time.

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jlkbck's review against another edition

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adventurous inspiring reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.0


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lauxreads's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75


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stargirlish's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

although i like the story, i feel like it works a lot better as a movie. the writing style is pretty simplistic which makes it easy to read, but it kinda reads like a wattpad story i wouldve written in 5th grade (writing style wise, not action wise). there is also an SA scene which i thought was wildly unnecessary. despite all this, im very attached to the story and to its characters so my heart wouldnt let me rate it any lower :)

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forreal's review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0


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tays_books's review against another edition

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inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0


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