I'm sorry, but I could barely get through this book. It was assigned to me (and the rest of the class) as part of our Young Adult Literature Course. Maybe I came into the book with bad picture already as the professor showed us the 1988 movie version. The movie was horrible and, to me, the book was ...
2.5 stars. This is one of those books that I feel ambivalent toward. However, I see the importance of the themes, so I must give it some credit for that.
Secret societies seem to be a staple of fiction set in private schools. They may truly be secret to all but a few, or they may simply be unacknowledged publicly--but either way, they retain an air of mystery that gives them power, which they use to varying degrees from benevolence to criminality. Th...
Maybe it was my own fault for getting my hopes too high, but I found this book underwhelming given all the praise I found for it online. I expected to be depressed, and I was. I expected to sympathise with the protagonist, and I did that too. But the overall story wasn't gripping enough for my taste...
For all the hype surrounding this book I expected something spectacular. It was good, but not that good. Perhaps the hype is because this is one of the few books about boys, for boys, written boy (well, man).
I had trouble not thinking about how I would get pumped up by the professional motivational salespeople that came to hype similar sales at my middle school, and how I would never end up selling anything -- because who wants to go around selling stuff when you're in middle school? And, unlike the sa...
A 1001 CBYMRBYGU.Jerry Renault is a freshman at a private Catholic high school. It is chocolate time, the time in which the students are asked to sell chocolates to raise money for the school. This year, students are asked to sell more chocolate than ever and the cost of each bar is twice as much.At...
This book is way too horrendously pessimistic for me. I also find it wholly unrealistic--this is a parable, not something that could ever actually happen on such a scale. My overwhelming emotion while reading this book is disgust, which is probably not too far off the mark as far as Cormier's intent...
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