I had to read this in high school and really enjoyed it. I found it fast paced and engrossing. This surprised me given the storyline, as this, even back then, wasn't "my type of book."
I can appreciate its groundbreaking qualities, but what was groundbreaking in the '60s isn't anymore, and there are far too many places where the author's teenagerness shows a bit embarrassingly. Doesn't quite hold up under today's standards for YA literature, in my opinion.
I finally got the book from the library and have just started it. I'm incredibly impressed that this was penned by a kid in high school. It's very well written. There are bits that feel like a teenager wrote it, but that's a good thing because too often lately I've been reading children's books that...
I recently read this book aloud to Peter (who had never read it?!? or seen the movie?!?! or hardly even heard of it wtf??) after maybe 12 years of not having read it. It used to be my favorite favorite favorite book (I had a crush on Ponyboy) and I liked the movie too. I was super into it, I read al...
in a sentence or so: in a timeless "us vs. them" set in the 1960s, the rival groups of the greasers and the socs experience ever-increasing tensions that eventually bubble over and result in death.the book is narrated in a journalistic first-person style by Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy is a 14 year old g...
I read and began to love this book when I was probably 9 or 10. I've read it many, many times since then. Ironically, since I grew up in Tulsa, I never knew that S.E. Hinton was a Tulsa native, nor that the events and characters in the book were drawn from her experiences as a teenager in my hometow...
I LOVE this book. I don't know why I find it so good. The whole thing just seems so real. It's really exciting, and the characters are all really believable. I like how the story was written by a young author who really knew what she was writing about--she based it partly on the experiences of her f...
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