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    <body><![CDATA[Title&amp;auther: <strong>Jack</strong> by <strong>A.M. HOMES</strong><br/>ISBN #: 9780679732211<br/>Febuary20.008<br/><br/>*<u>this need grammer corrections. still need to talk to Nourok</u>: JUST A NOTE TO ALL =D<br/><br/>In the beginng, i thought think book was going to be a biography of this kid name Jack, but as i started to read th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18248060">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yet another coming of age book, which I seem to be reading a lot these days. Jack is a very plain and simple book, nothing really special, but it has a nice and endearing message about accepting homosexuality. <br/><br/>Jack focuses on a teenage boy whose whole life appears to change when his fath...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51199724">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Jack, this book deals with very strong content of homosexuals. Jack's parents spilt up and Jack's father is gay. Paul, Jack's father, is lovers with Bob. Jack's friend, Max, is kind of odd. Paul's friend's daughter is Maggie, a school mate of Jack and Max's. Jack and Maggie end up going out. Maggie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75973183">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was awesome, mostly because of the fact that Jack discovers that his father is homosexual after his parent's divorce. His reaction to it made me cringe, because he talked about how much he hated his father, how he was ashamed of him, and he was a &quot;fag&quot;. Their relationship got awk...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43055222">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jack, 1990, 240pp., $12.95<br/>A.M. Homes ISBN 978-0679732211<br/><br/>	“Max, shut up,” I said “It’s not something I dreamed. It’s not a game. My father’s a faggot. He took me out on the lake, he rented a rowboat, and out there, in the middle of the goddamned lake, he told me he’s q...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18351427">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very well written story about a teenager who learns his father is gay.<br/><br/>From back cover:<br/><br/>&quot;In JACK, A.M. Homes gives us a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49849063">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this novel about an adolescent trying to find his way in the world. Although I've never been a teenage boy, it felt 'right', his voice seemed authentic, especially since it was (I think) set in the Eighties (when I was a kid).<br/><br/>An easy read but very touching.<br/><br/>I read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50597830">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Homes's first book, an attempt to get into the head of a 15-year-old boy who's trying to come to terms with his father being gay. Not altogether successful; characters (including Jack) a bit flat, and his internal dialogue is filled with hundreds, even billions of hundreds and about a hundreds and s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46462848">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jack finds out that his father is gay. Jack was never the same after he found out of his father being gay because he was very uncomftorable with his dad being gay. Originally he was very close with his dad but all of that was ruined when he found out the truth. He felt like his dad was hiding to muc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51747441">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was great to read. <br/>It is about a teenage boy, names Jack, whos parents are separated. At first, he dosent know why. Then, he and his father go out on a boat in the middle of the lake, and his father tells Jack that he is gay. Knowing that his own father was gay turned Jack into a hom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35238293">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for the community Read at the international school. Very interesting selection. I look forward to the discussion next week to understand others ideas on the subject of raising teens and communicating with them. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about this boy name Jack whose father is gay. his father takes him out in the middle of the lake and tells him that he's gay. After that, jack disliked his father, and anything that has to do with being queer. Jack goes to school and someone wrote &quot;fag baby&quot; on his locker. so ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24228654">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great gripping funny coming of age novel, with an amazing act of ventriloquism by Homes -- maybe her best book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[    This book written by A.M. Holmes is a pretty good and interesting book about a boy, Jack, who finds out about the fact that his father is gay. This book portrays an interesting father and son relationship between jack and his father. Because before jack new he was gay, he really liked him a lot ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16548691">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, Jack is talking about the life of a boy, name Jack.  Even though, he has divorced parents, he always wishes to have a normal life like everybody else.  But not until one day, his father told him that he likes to live with a man and he feels happier this way.  Jack can’t accept the true ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15285978">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I pulled this off a recommended reading list because it's a YAF book about a kid with a gay dad. Gay dads &amp; adolescence, what's not to love? I mean, this is the stuff our lives are made of. Sprinkle in a first kiss and some Serious Issues like domestic violence &amp; ankle sprains, and you have Jack's c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32569007">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jack is a very interesting novel. It falls under the genre of a &quot;coming of age&quot; book, however it's not the typical ones where you find the person figuring who he/she likes. Instead, Jack gets his troubles from a homosexual dad, obese friend, and other phenomenas. In some ways, depending on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24658632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an O.K book in my opinion. It is about Jack and how he copes with his father being a homosexual. I felt as if I was Jack during the book. He is going through high school, something that is very hard at first. he uses such literary techniques like indirect and direct characterization to draw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24291709">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was one of the choices for 9th grade? or 10th grade? Anyway, the language isn't too difficult to understand for this book but the content itself covers a lot of topics that teenagers our age can relate to. It was a good read in the sense that the topics were a little racy but there were ti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14102924">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This made me feel better about my own attempt at my first novel.  Even A.M. Homes, my queen, can write something a little precious, something a little off the mark.  (This book, however, has been translated into a zillion different languages and is taught in classrooms around the world.  Oh, well.)]]></body>
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