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    <body><![CDATA[<u>Rule of the bone </u>                   Russel Banks                                             Harper Perennial,1996,400pp.,$13.95          ISBN 0060927240                                                                                                 <br/><br/>“Life isn’t perfect”. As cliché...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9173902">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[eh... the main character is compelling but... but... I don't know. There is something surface about the whole thing. I kind of hate that the healing balm for the kid's smothered soul comes in the guise of a jamaican rasta dude -- a gimmick to give the story a little exotic flavoring???  and if the w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2212586">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks is a story about a young boy named Chappie.  Chappie lives with his mom and step dad in a small town in upstate New York in the Lake Placid area. Chappie, just 13 at the time grows a fondness for marijuana and hangs out with a tough crowd that is all very much older...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44377894">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Rule of the Bone<em> is a book about a fourteen year old kid who fails out of school, is already hooked on drugs, and is being secretly abused my his stepfather.  I know this sounds dark, but Bone, the main character, is, perhaps, one of the most &quot;together&quot; narrators.  He knows his flaws and t...</em></em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/842061">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a taboo, edgy story of a young loner rebel on the run from a broken home, and his subsequent experience being a victim and a hero, with various bikers, serious criminals, and Rastafarians. It is a suspenseful, awful, and sometimes quite funny, coming-of-age story, but it is not for the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73246056">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Drugs.  Identity.  Broken families.  Slavery.  Ashanti warriors and Rastafarians.  White privilege.  Journey.<br/><br/>This is how I would describe Rule of the Bone.<br/><br/>Just read this book for the first time in a decade.  I thought about recommending it to people, but when I read the profe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50561360">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Russell Banks captures the voice of a 14-year old teenager perfectly.  He writes in a style that is so authentic, you feel like you're in the head of a teenager the whole time.  <br/><br/>Chappie aka Bone, is a good kid at heart but doesn't react well to his abusive home life and the trouble he ge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38215069">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Are all bad kids really bad? or did they just have a little misguidance?<br/><br/>       Well I think that most &quot;bad kids&quot; are mislead and it is the parents fault but not in all cases.  I really liked this book and I hate reading ALOT.  This book is mostly about a kid who is mislead and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40084442">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about a teenager named Chappie who gets the name &quot;Bones&quot; after hanging out with other teenagers that smoke and drink.  Bone's mother was an alcoholic and his father abused him as a child.  Chappie drops out of school and becomes a drug dealer and hangs out with the wrong crowd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69872774">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bank’s exploration of a teenager’s rite of passage into adulthood far exceeds anything of the kind I’ve previously read.  His character’s emotional journey from childhood into young adulthood, and his physical journey across continents, leaves me yearning to create this same sort of characte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53740847">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It’s just as well that I’m not particularly fond of Holden Caulfield because I keep seeing people comparing these two characters, but <em>Rule of the Bone’s</em> Chappie is quite different. He’s a bit less irritating, and unlike Holden, he doesn’t constantly think everyone is phony or wants to save...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27316967">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is another one of those books lying around our house that my boyfriend read and loved as a teenager.  <br/><br/>Rule of the Bone is about Chappy, a boy who later changes his name to Bone after he runs away from his small hometown in upstate NY.  Bone embarks on the adventure every adolescent ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22554117">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book pretty fast as the plot is subversive fun; something is always happening to the rapidly evolving main character who takes the name of &quot;Bone&quot; after a tattoo he gets with a witless friend.  Originally his extreme youth and lack of options make him seem like a dumb  generatio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20312843">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just because I couldn't put it down doesn't mean it gets 4 or 5 stars.  I'm a sucker for most coming of age books, especially one featuring a bad-ass, good-hearted kid.  Yes, like Holden.  But no, Bone is no Holden.  Holden's love of his sister Phoebe to me is way truer than Bone's love for Rose, wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10525387">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Rule of the Bone is a coming of age novel written by Russell Banks that tells the story of a disaffected youth named Bone.  The book is written entirely from Bone’s point of view and gives a fascinating account of his life as young American teenager.  Bone’s parents are divorced and his mother, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8676590">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Came down with some life-threatening (for sure) disease and have been knocked out for several days. I hate it when I have hour after hour of leisure time and I'm too sick to even read! In the middle of my delirium (not to mention the nagging cough, the sneeze, the wheeze and all those miseries) I re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68869181">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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