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  <default_description>n the wilderness of junior high, Edwin Hanratty is at the bottom of the food chain. His teachers find him a nuisance. His fellow students consider him prey. And although his parents are not oblivious to his troubles, they can't quite bring themselves to fathom the ruthless forces that demoralize him daily. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sharing in these schoolyard indignities is his only friend, Flake. Branded together as misfits, their fury simmers quietly in the hallways, classrooms, and at home, until an unthinkable idea offers them a spectacular and terrifying release.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From Jim Shepard, one of the most enduring and influential novelists writing today, comes an unflinching look into the heart and soul of adolescence. Tender and horrifying, prescient and moving, &lt;b&gt;Project X &lt;/b&gt;will not easily be forgotten.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Después de Columbine en 1999, como después de cualquier tragedia que marque el desgaste de la sociedad, los visionarios se dan a la tarea de regresar a «la escena del crimen» a explorar las pruebas que revelen las causas del delito.<br/><br/>Shepard es un probado autor perteneciente a una gene...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23857340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[hmph...<br/><br/>i'm really digging Shepard's short stories, so i picked this up from the library. he creates great characters, great scenes, and great dialog, which all make for a quick read. i want to say his writing makes an enjoyable read, but with such serious subject matter, i won't. i could...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31095345">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this novel in a day because I couldn't put it down! Shepard chronicles a few months in the life of eighth grader Edwin Hanratty who, with his friend Flake, plots a Columbine H.S.-style attack on their school. The writer succeeds in presenting a believable, sympathetic character and the circum...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24614701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the aftermath of the Columbine High School Shootings in 1999, countless reporters and commentators repeated similar versions of the same phrase over and over again: &quot;People are wondering how something like this could happen.&quot;<br/><br/>Jim Shepard knows.<br/><br/>Project X is one of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49554781">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;I think that when people say something's unreal, they just mean it's too real.&quot;<br/><br/>Every day, all over the world, those in power use terror and violence to keep their place on top of the heap.  Thousands of humans kill at random, because of differences in religion, economics, ethn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40771182">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[About one kid who struggles with himself - his personality, his looks, his family, his school.  He has one friend, a great mother, father, little brother, artistic talent and one pair of his pants.  His life is a living hell because other kids call him homosexual, torture him - even teachers won't g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75709162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>What would possess two boys to kill their classmates? Shepard doesn't provide any straightforward answers, but he expertly imagines the mindset of one miserable and wounded adolescent. It's an eye-opening portrait. The narrator is in turns funny, sympathetic, and rude, but he's not obsessed with vid...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45459234">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many writers are sheep in wolves clothing, pretending to be bold in their choice of material but actually playing for shock value, and not taking any real risks.  No one could possibly say that about Jim Shepherd, a remarkable author and poet who understands that the point of literature is not to sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44633045">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Shepard skillfully demonstrates how teens find it possible to destroy themselves and the lives around them, and, even desiring to stop, find their inertia impossible to overcome. Very well done, if excruciating; perhaps most impressive, Shepard manages to skirt any after-school specialness, which wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39497589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried really hard to get into this book, but I just couldn't. The language felt like it was trying too hard to be cool, trying to be something a junior high school student would say rather than something a junior high school would actually say. And for the life of me, I could not sympathize or lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57551369">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've avoided reviewing this book because of the extremely negative discussion I had about it with a colleague, which left an awful taste in my mouth--some admixture of anger, resentment, and bile. Now I can't separate my feelings about the book from that conversation. Maybe I should instead just tou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21409365">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a book that walks you through the life of two Junior High kids who just need attention. Both of the kids are the typical left out kids. This book will open your eyes and your heart to the kids around you. It's a book that is easy in a sense that it reads fast like a short story but it c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20161980">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jim Shepard does what so many young adult authors try and do, which is to truly capture and paint a picture of youth. &quot;Project X&quot; sees Shepard delve into the dark side of adolescence and present a fictional account of the all too real problem that is school violence. &quot;Project X&quot; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59322394">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read a number of short stories by Jim Shepard and loved every one. When I found this book at the Lane County Library book sale, I was thrilled. However, this book really let me down. I found the two main characters completley unlikeable and I felt like there was nothing sympathetic about them...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79334804">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Grim, excellent, pleasureless.  A 13 year old describes his grindingly boring days as a picked-on middle school outcast, which are only partly relieved by imagining violent revenge schemes with his equally anti-social best friend.  A blinkered, helpless, agonized life.  Offers no real explanations f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42676997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now this may sound like I'm totally heartless, but I could just not connect to the characters. I couldn't feel sorry for them or wish them anything better. To me, this book was pretty boring and unrealistic and by the end I no longer really cared what happened to the two boys. And what is there to s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54927668">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This wasn't a bad novel, but it just didn't hold a candle to Shepard's short story collection, &quot;Like You'd Understand Anyway,&quot; which blew me away when I read it earlier this year. <br/><br/>However it was kind of interesting to read &quot;Project X&quot; right after reading &quot;Columbi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73096124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ The narrator's voice, Edwin Hanratty, a high school student, is very strong, disgruntled, misunderstood by parents and classmates and friends.  It is the best thing about the story--a contemporary narrator reminding me of the narrator in The Catcher in the Rye.  The story reads quickly, a page-turn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14517687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not the sort of book that shouldn't be laugh-out-loud-funny, but it is.  It's also sad, disturbing, and impossible to put down once you begin reading. The dialogue and characters are amazingly realistic and true to life.]]></body>
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