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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
I remember reading this over 20 years ago in early high school or junior high, however, all I remember a boys boarding school and Phineas. I decided to read this again since very little memory remain. I saw a review from a librarian accusing Knowles of paying off schools so this book will get read. Wow. While this did not say with me as Great Expectations had this is an important book - especially for today. Gene is looking back on a turning point in his life - where he is continuing to pay for the consequences to some minor actions as a sixteen year old. I am very happy to have read this book as a young teen and now as an adult.
This book is horrible. It's boring, the characters are lackluster and change from one thing to another quickly and without any mention or showing of how they were. And it's not even character development. It's literally them changing their personality because Gene did something stupid. Which Gene did a whole lot of. I didn't even care when the death happened.
Wishing I could give 3.5--and I think the lack luster of this novel has to do with when it was written--however, the second half of the novel would get a solid four stars from me. It's a book you think about after you're finished for a while--realizing that the whole setting is a microcosm of the mentalities that allow war to happen in the first place. Great quote: "Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart."
It's just that it's always difficult for me to relate to the private school mentality of teenage boys in the 1940s.
It's just that it's always difficult for me to relate to the private school mentality of teenage boys in the 1940s.
challenging
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a classic I never read, read now to fulfill the September prompt of a reading challenge I am definitely NOT on track to finish, "a YA or banned book". Consumed on my kindle.
I don't have a whole lot to say about this one, may have been more interesting to dissect in a school-setting, as I know it's often taught, but was an engaging enough story. A slice-of-life tale of two characters coming of age in WWII America, on the precipice of being old enough to be drafted, which I did think was a unique perspective to explore.
Not sure who I'd recommend to, but wouldn't dissuade.
I don't have a whole lot to say about this one, may have been more interesting to dissect in a school-setting, as I know it's often taught, but was an engaging enough story. A slice-of-life tale of two characters coming of age in WWII America, on the precipice of being old enough to be drafted, which I did think was a unique perspective to explore.
Not sure who I'd recommend to, but wouldn't dissuade.
I used to hate this book because of my high school English teacher. However, there’s something so poignant about it now that I’m older.
emotional
slow-paced
Quand vous aimez quelque chose, il vous aime de quelque manière que ce soit aimerLes livres saugrenus qui décrivent avec précision les adolescents et l'expérience de l'adolescence me rendent souvent dégoûté d'une manière qui interprète mal les adolescents contrairement aux caricatures bidimensionnelles—il est facile de rire de quelque chose qui sort de l'ordinaire.