Getting in
by Jennifer Finney Boylan (Goodreads author!)
Getting in
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Read in February, 2001
This book is about high school juniors/seniors and their families touring Bowdoin, Middlebury, Colby, Amherst, etc. Bowdoin people, you remember Dick Steele, the old admissions guy? He's in this book, very thinly disguised. So is the author. Lots of sex too. Very funny stuff from the future Jennifer Finney Boyland, head of the Colby English Dept. and a great, humorous writer (She's Not There is also quite good).
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I loved Jennifer Finney Boyland's She's Not There (it's the same author) so I thought I'd pick this up. It was quick read and mildly entertaining. The story telling wasn't as good as She's Not There and I wasn't hugely impressed with the characters. Overall, not wonderful, not terrible.
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I was very suprised by this book. It's very funny, and sly. Knowing a little about Jenny by way of her memoirs, it's kind of funny to see her express personal quirks in her storytelling. I would recommend this to any bright, young person who is college bound.
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Read in August, 2002
recommends it for:
seniors in college
I'll be nice and give this book two stars because the author is a Colby professor... but the book really annoyed me. The dialogue especially. This book had the potential to be much funnier. Oh well.
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Read in January, 2005
recommends it for:
clever coming of age novels
Take one confused and apprehensive young man, one muscle-bound idiot, and one pompous twit and send them on a tour of colleges in the Northeast. Then prepare to laugh and cringe and laugh some more.
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Read in January, 2002
High school seniors make a road trip through New England to interview at elite colleges. Great characters. Quick read.
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