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by John Knowles
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Ms. Margie
Ms. Margie rated it 16 years ago
I reread this in part because I wanted to find out what made it appeal to me when I was in high school. I was a bit disappointed to find that I'd missed reading it when I should have. I probably was only 13 when I last read it, and read it then because Parker Stevenson was in the movie version. A...
Bashara Likes Books
Bashara Likes Books rated it 17 years ago
This is a book I should probably revisit one day. I only remember it from some high school English classes and I'm afraid I don't have great memories of it, but I do know that I did learn a lot about literary analysis and symbolism from this book so it must be sort of worthy...
KCPolski
KCPolski rated it 17 years ago
I read this one in high school. For some reason it popped into my head again, so I decided to see if I still liked it as an adult.
Reading with AngelaRenea
Reading with AngelaRenea rated it 19 years ago
I found this book to be incredibly irritating. Not the worst book I've ever read, but didn’t feel like I could'n relate to the book. I felt like I was just trekking through waiting for it to start getting good, but it never did.
1st Avenue
1st Avenue rated it 22 years ago
* Meandering review ahead... or below.I read this book back when I was quite young and did not pick up on many of the arguably obvious innuendos in the text and thought it was a good book about friendship, competition, and the usual turmoils of adolescence. I also thought the book was quite boring a...
lonesomepoint
lonesomepoint rated it 29 years ago
I read this around my sixteenth birthday. It's constantly compared to The Catcher in the Rye, but is darker and somewhat better-written. I still like it, but for some reason, not as much as I once did.Apparently this novel is on the Goodreads "best LGBT books" list, and John Knowles once stated that...
Unabridged Chick
Unabridged Chick rated it 29 years ago
One of my all-time favorite quotes is from this book ('Nothing lasts forever, not a tree, not love, not even a death from violence.') but other than that, I don't recall much about it.
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 44 years ago
In fiction, innocence is a thing lost in one dramatic event. And all-boy boarding schools are horrible places.
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