Yes, I know, how dare I use the movie cover version of the book?! Well, thats because its the version I read. tl;dr I liked it. Different enough from the movie to be interesting, and I can definitely see why the changes were made for a screen adaption, but still a great story. [[MORE]]Description Pa...
I've really been wanting to see this movie but I haven't been able to convince my husband to go see it with me yet. I already made him sit through Les Miserables, for which I owe him big time, so I can't really push the issue too much, but I think if the movie follows the book then it's aimed more t...
So much hype, so little to back up that hype. I still don't see what all the fuss is about with this book. The writing is good for contemporary fiction, the prose poignant at times, the characters OK, but the story overall could have been dealt with better. It could have had more nuances since thi...
Goodness me. I loved this one. I saw the movie first, so I think I might have liked that better, but separately this book is also awesome! It's the whole same idea at its basic story line, it's just told a bit differently, and the book goes beyond the movie in a sense. Either way, I love Pat and his...
As someone who grew up in South Jersey and travelled to Philly on a weekly basis, this story struck a homey, familiar chord and was immediately endeared to me. The images of sadness and depression and losing touch with reality make it an emotionally touching story, but Pat's childish inner monologue...
Really a 3.5. The sometimes irksome first person narration kept it from being a four. Seriously, why did Pat talk like that? And it was inconsistent, especially in terms of the words he used. His vocabulary shifted in difficulty depending on the page. I kept wondering what the story would be like fr...
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