The story of how a boy who believed in the goodness of human nature set out to change the world.
Pay It Forward is a wondrous and moving ...
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Dec 13, 2007
Mirna
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Saya belum pernah baca bukunya. Review ini dari hasil saya nonton filmnya. Sebelumnya saya pernah review ini di blog saya di : http://mirnabanget.blogspot.com/2007/07/... tapi berikut saya copy-paste juga di sini.
Pay It Forward : Life cannot gives more beautiful things than what you already have right now
Beberapa hari yg lalu, saya nonton lagi "Pay It Forward" (PIF). Salah satu film lama yg menginspirasi saya. Endingnya selalu bikin saya nangis. PIF bercerita te More...
Pay It Forward : Life cannot gives more beautiful things than what you already have right now
Beberapa hari yg lalu, saya nonton lagi "Pay It Forward" (PIF). Salah satu film lama yg menginspirasi saya. Endingnya selalu bikin saya nangis. PIF bercerita te More...
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May 30, 2011
Oleg
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For a book with such a contrived plot, stupid and shallow characters, completely predictable ending, strange acting choices (on audio), and prose that mercilessly buggers the reader/listener with marathons of cliches, Pay It Forward was inspiring. I was inspired to throw my hands in the air every few minutes shouting "REALLY!? THEY CAN'T BE SERIOUS" at the idiotic plot turns and character developments. To take a phrase that has been around for at least a hundred years and treat it like it's a ne
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Nov 09, 2010
Rose Ann
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Not many books have actually made me cry....this one did....in the last few chapters.
Bittersweet.
I originally gave this book 4 stars, but the more I thought about it, it really deserves 5 stars from me...here is why and what I took with me after reading this book:
1. The next time someone asks me how they can pay me back...I will defintely tell them to pay it forward instead!
2. Don't just SAY you are going to do something to help someone....stop talking about it and More...
Bittersweet.
I originally gave this book 4 stars, but the more I thought about it, it really deserves 5 stars from me...here is why and what I took with me after reading this book:
1. The next time someone asks me how they can pay me back...I will defintely tell them to pay it forward instead!
2. Don't just SAY you are going to do something to help someone....stop talking about it and More...
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Dec 04, 2008
Ethan
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great book... a little inappropriate for an 11 year old but still great.
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Nov 21, 2008
Luciano
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I was moved to read this book after hearing a couple of people at work raving about it.
I love the premise of the author's idea and how she goes about developing it within the story line. It really is an excellent story. What makes this story so engrossing to read, is how the author piggy backs from one situation to another, eventually bringing it full circle. It's like watching a row of literary dominoes fall, one on top of another; with the fall of each subsequent domino influencing More...
I love the premise of the author's idea and how she goes about developing it within the story line. It really is an excellent story. What makes this story so engrossing to read, is how the author piggy backs from one situation to another, eventually bringing it full circle. It's like watching a row of literary dominoes fall, one on top of another; with the fall of each subsequent domino influencing More...
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Aug 27, 2011
Adriana
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May 17, 2011
Hanna
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Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. April 2010. 311 pages. ISBN 978-1-4391-7040-3. Young Adult.
Incredulous page turning will lead the reader up to a ending that will make them tear up. The story is about a twelve-year-old boy named Trevor Mckinney whom engages in the extra credit assignment a fellow social studies techer assigned. The project was to challenge yourself to change the world. Trevor's mindset was tremendously over many peoples head but he panned it out to the extreme. More...
Incredulous page turning will lead the reader up to a ending that will make them tear up. The story is about a twelve-year-old boy named Trevor Mckinney whom engages in the extra credit assignment a fellow social studies techer assigned. The project was to challenge yourself to change the world. Trevor's mindset was tremendously over many peoples head but he panned it out to the extreme. More...
Mar 02, 2011
Jennifer
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If I hadn’t had anything else on my plate, I would have read Catherine Ryan Hyde’s Pay It Forward straight through. Even so, I pushed some things off and shuffled the schedule around in order to make time for reading.
I had seen the movie a few years ago, but hadn’t been aware until recently that it had been based on a book. Usually the books are better and more satisfying than the movies that are based on them, so I was happy to find a copy of “Pay It Forward” in my local library. Afte More...
I had seen the movie a few years ago, but hadn’t been aware until recently that it had been based on a book. Usually the books are better and more satisfying than the movies that are based on them, so I was happy to find a copy of “Pay It Forward” in my local library. Afte More...
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Dec 13, 2010
Dellafirayama
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Carilah gagasan untuk mengubah dunia, dan laksanakan.
Tugas dari guru barunya, Reuben St. Clair, membuat Trevor McKinney, siswa SMP usia 12 tahun, bertekad melaksanakannya sebaik mungkin. Ia mempunyai ide yang ia namakan Balas ke yang Lain. Ia melakukan tiga kebaikan pada tiga orang dan meminta masing-masingnya melakukan tiga kebaikan lagi pada tiga orang berbeda. Semacam MLM kebaikan, lah :)
Semua teman sekelasnya merasa apatis, karena, apa iya ada orang yang mau dengan rela me More...
Tugas dari guru barunya, Reuben St. Clair, membuat Trevor McKinney, siswa SMP usia 12 tahun, bertekad melaksanakannya sebaik mungkin. Ia mempunyai ide yang ia namakan Balas ke yang Lain. Ia melakukan tiga kebaikan pada tiga orang dan meminta masing-masingnya melakukan tiga kebaikan lagi pada tiga orang berbeda. Semacam MLM kebaikan, lah :)
Semua teman sekelasnya merasa apatis, karena, apa iya ada orang yang mau dengan rela me More...
Jun 09, 2010
Hoover Public Library
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Wonderful! This is a great book for anyone. It deals with generosity, trust, self esteem, prejudice.
12 yr old Trevor takes on an assignment for extra credit. The assignment is to do something that could change the world. His idea is to help three people in a big way and in return for his help those three people must help three people each and then the people they help must help three people each etc. The premise is that if everyone did this then in no time everyone would be helping More...
12 yr old Trevor takes on an assignment for extra credit. The assignment is to do something that could change the world. His idea is to help three people in a big way and in return for his help those three people must help three people each and then the people they help must help three people each etc. The premise is that if everyone did this then in no time everyone would be helping More...
Nov 08, 2009
Fiona
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I found this book to be interesting from the first chapter. I don't usually read fiction novels that are not romances, since I write romance, so I'm always checking out the competition. But this book made me cry at the end. The story of a teen-aged boy who tries to change the world, seemed like a plot tailor-made for being a sloppy, feel-good kind of polemic about how people need to learn how to be more trusting. But the characters of his mother Arlene, his teacher Reuben St. Clair, his neig
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Jun 28, 2009
Sitty
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This Book is OWESOME....
Must rea!!!!
buku ini menceritakan tentang seorang guru Sosial cacat yang bernama Rouben St. Claire yang terbiasa memberikan satu tugas kecil tapi nggak simpel di tiap awal tahun ajarnya. tugas itu berbunyi "Buatlah sebuah ide untuk mengubah Dunia dan lakukan dalam sebuah tindakan nyata". Sebenarnya nggak banyak yang dia harapkan dari murid2nya pada tugas ini.
Tapi Trevor bukan murid biasa, dia muncul dengan sebuah ide ini yaitu " More...
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buku ini menceritakan tentang seorang guru Sosial cacat yang bernama Rouben St. Claire yang terbiasa memberikan satu tugas kecil tapi nggak simpel di tiap awal tahun ajarnya. tugas itu berbunyi "Buatlah sebuah ide untuk mengubah Dunia dan lakukan dalam sebuah tindakan nyata". Sebenarnya nggak banyak yang dia harapkan dari murid2nya pada tugas ini.
Tapi Trevor bukan murid biasa, dia muncul dengan sebuah ide ini yaitu " More...
May 30, 2009
Barky
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Jan 28, 2009
Becky
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The writing was amateurish. Neat premise however.
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Oct 13, 2009
Karen
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I really wish the movie would have stuck to the characters/situations that were in the book. It's totally different from the movie but the same if that makes any sense. Reuben was just weird in the movie. In the book his character was really well written and more understandable than the movie. I wasn't as shocked at the ending in the book since I had seen the movie but then again the movie ended with Trevor. The book didn't. I'm really glad I read this book.
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Jun 18, 2011
Rebecca
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I only saw this movie once, at a free screening way way back in the day and kind of forgot what it was about. I mean, I remember the big idea of it, but not the little details. Teacher gives the students an assignment to think of one thing to change the world or something. And a kid thinks of an idea to do big good deeds for people who it would be really important too and not to accept anything in return, but to “pay it forward”. I like the intersplicing of people paying it forward and the journ
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Jun 07, 2011
Brick
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Pay It forward was a classic feel good story. After reading it I wanted to try to change the world, even if it was by holding the door for someone, or helping an old women cross the street. What little Trevor did was amazing.
The story takes place in a small town around the 90's. The main character is a little boy named Trevor who has a fourth grade social studies teacher named Reuben. Personally Reuben is my favorite character in the book. He grows so much through out the novel. Reuben was More...
The story takes place in a small town around the 90's. The main character is a little boy named Trevor who has a fourth grade social studies teacher named Reuben. Personally Reuben is my favorite character in the book. He grows so much through out the novel. Reuben was More...
Apr 07, 2008
Amy
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This book was stupid. I have seen better writing from a freshman creative writing class. It's like it was written for people who don't read or don't read well. I mean, the concept "pay it forward" is great, but the book itself - horrible.
Nov 30, 2010
Angela
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I loved the idea of this book. The thought that as simple an idea as paying it forward rather than paying someone back is wonderful; if only this could happen. Trevor is a great character but I found it difficult to relate to the others in the book although Catherine Ryan Hyde had attempted to portray them in detail. I think the biggest problem I had with the book was the style in which it was written. I found myself having to re-read the dialogue at times to make sense of it; I felt also that i
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Sep 26, 2011
Deanna Annaed
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Dec 18, 2009
Maggie
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Aug 08, 2011
Mackenzie
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Wow.
I read a lot of books. A lot. And oftentimes, I admit, I am reading just to read, to immerse myself in a story and experience another place, another life. But this isn't that kind of book. This is a book that is read for a purpose, one that leaves you feeling like you have done something by reading it; it is a book with a message, an experience unto itself. It is almost too much to take in, the beauty, the simplicity, of both the book and the idea. Reading this book was, in itself, a w More...
I read a lot of books. A lot. And oftentimes, I admit, I am reading just to read, to immerse myself in a story and experience another place, another life. But this isn't that kind of book. This is a book that is read for a purpose, one that leaves you feeling like you have done something by reading it; it is a book with a message, an experience unto itself. It is almost too much to take in, the beauty, the simplicity, of both the book and the idea. Reading this book was, in itself, a w More...
Nov 05, 2007
Teresa
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This book was really uplifting, and not in a saccharine way. A short but very poignant read - those with stone hearts might find it a bit twee but I loved it.
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Feb 20, 2009
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Mar 24, 2009
Sue
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I checked out this book from the library. Inside I found a bookmark. It has a picture of a young lady named Katie. It shows the years 1976-2007. On the back it says "passport" and lists all the places she lived and or visited. There is also another picture of her with a young man, looks like they are on a trip (carrying a large backpack) There is also a quote from Gandhi that says "be the change you want to see in the world."
Interesting this bookmark was in this book. N More...
Interesting this bookmark was in this book. N More...
Sep 26, 2010
Lisa
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First saw the movie on TV with Kevin Spacey and can't remember the other actors/actresses names. I liked the movie so I got the book- definitely some differences; however, the book was excellent. Essentially, a 12-year old boy is given a history assignment to come up with something that would change the world...the boy chose something called "Pay It Forward"...he would help 3 people who needed some kind of help getting on their feet and instead of them paying him back, each one of th
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Feb 03, 2012
Manda
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Okay - I have to give five stars to a book that makes me weep like this one did, but I couldn't shake the feeling that I was being manipulated by the author. It would be so nice if an idea like this worked - so very nice - but so very unlikely. I do believe in doing favours for people, and in a much smaller way than this book people do already often do favours for each other, and some people do huge favours - look at Bill Gates attempting to eradicate 10 diseases. But I don't see a world without
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Dec 17, 2010
Nancy
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I absolutely loved this book. The author has so much insight into people's feelings. I listened to it on an audio CD. The narrator was so good at portraying the characters. It was a refreshing read since when I'm browsing in the library, most of the books seem to be about serial killers and national crises.
The characters were well-developed, and it was so easy to sympathize with each.
The ending was so moving. It really deeply touched me. I was sorry that the book ended.
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The characters were well-developed, and it was so easy to sympathize with each.
The ending was so moving. It really deeply touched me. I was sorry that the book ended.
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Jun 09, 2010
Kelly
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Wonderful! This is a great book for anyone. It deals with generosity, trust, self esteem, prejudice.
12 yr old Trevor takes on an assignment for extra credit. The assignment is to do something that could change the world. His idea is to help three people in a big way and in return for his help those three people must help three people each and then the people they help must help three people each etc. The premise is that if everyone did this then in no time everyone would More...
Sep 27, 2010
Cindy
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Themes: helping others, race, family, change
Setting: California 1990s
Trevor is a 12 year old junior high student and nice kid. Arlene is his mother, a recovering alcoholic and single mom. Reuben is his teacher, a Vietnam vet with physical and emotional scars from the war. And Trevor has an idea that will change the world.
This book and the movie are pretty much a part of popular culture. The phrase "Pay it Forward" is common enough. But I hadn't ever read t More...
Setting: California 1990s
Trevor is a 12 year old junior high student and nice kid. Arlene is his mother, a recovering alcoholic and single mom. Reuben is his teacher, a Vietnam vet with physical and emotional scars from the war. And Trevor has an idea that will change the world.
This book and the movie are pretty much a part of popular culture. The phrase "Pay it Forward" is common enough. But I hadn't ever read t More...
