Reviews - The Outsiders | The StoryGraph

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The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton

4.06 AVERAGE

rowanluvsbooks's review against another edition

5.0

This book is beyond five stars!! amazing, definitely a new favorite comfort book

yanovsky's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

r_ietvald_j23's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

rpf's review

4.0

fast-paced

camila_gonzalez's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional tense 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

hai_baird's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

this should be taught in schools instead of catcher in the rye

panger97's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

First time I reread this since middle school, and it hits! Its themes of identity, individuality vs group, and looking past our perceptions of people, are still so resonant to this day. Definitely appreciating following Ponyboy’s story more so now than before

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