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You
This wasn't the way it was supposed to go.
You're just a typical fifteen-year-old sophomore, an average guy named Kyle Chase. This can't be happening to you. But then, how do you explain all the blood? How do you explain how you got here in the first place?
There had to have been signs, had to have been some clues it was coming. Did you miss them, or ignore them? Maybe if
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August 24th 2010
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What a lucky Goodreads Giveaway win! I would have never picked up this book on my own and it ended up exceeding all my expectations.
The novel is addictive from the very first lines:
You are surprised at all the blood.
He looks over at you, eyes wide, mouth dropping open, his face almost as white as his shirt.
He's surprised, too.
There is not a lot of broken glass, though, just some tiny slivers around his feet and one big piece busted in...more
The novel is addictive from the very first lines:
You are surprised at all the blood.
He looks over at you, eyes wide, mouth dropping open, his face almost as white as his shirt.
He's surprised, too.
There is not a lot of broken glass, though, just some tiny slivers around his feet and one big piece busted in...more
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You
By
Charles Benoit
Kyle Chase is a loser…in his own mind. He has dropped out…he has made poor choices, he doesn’t care, he doesn’t like the way his parents treat him, he doesn’t respect his teachers, he doesn’t really even like his friends. He knows if he had made other choices he would be in a different school doing very different things. And yet he is not. And there is nothing he can do about it. He has everyone figured out. He has life figured out and he is not a...more
By
Charles Benoit
Kyle Chase is a loser…in his own mind. He has dropped out…he has made poor choices, he doesn’t care, he doesn’t like the way his parents treat him, he doesn’t respect his teachers, he doesn’t really even like his friends. He knows if he had made other choices he would be in a different school doing very different things. And yet he is not. And there is nothing he can do about it. He has everyone figured out. He has life figured out and he is not a...more
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You worked for me as a young adult lit reader, but it worked for me even more as a teacher always on the look-out for great guy books. I’m going to be book-talking this book like crazy, but the cover alone will help draw in readers; it’s what grabbed my attention! The cover fits perfectly with the story and is incredibly intriguing. As soon as I started reading, Kyle reminded me of so many of my male students. It’s sad but true. It doesn’t take much for a student to end up like Kyle; a few ...more
You are a strawman, a character created in order to demonstrate how one bad choice in middle school can send your whole life spiraling out of control. But don't blame yourself. The author really stacked the deck against you. The thing that you supposedly love to do best is something we never get to see you do, or even express an opinion on. If video games are your great joy, why don't we ever get any insight into that? Likewise, the girl that matters so much to you, that you'd really like to g...more
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"La juventud nunca ha estado más preparada que ahora, ni las comunicaciones tan desarrolladas. ¿Por qué, entonces, el sentimiento de soledad y desamparo es más grande que nunca? ¿Cómo se ha llegado a semejante depresión global, cuando las cosas se suponía que no podían ir a mejor? Igual que Stéphane Hessel hace con ¡Indignaos!, un texto breve que ha sacudido a la sociedad francesa y se propone hacer lo mismo con la española, Tú, una novela del norteamericano Charles Benoit, señala con inq...more
I read the book called YOU and i thought it was really good i made some connections with the
characters.This book is one of the best book I've read so far. The genre of this book is mystery in this book many strange things happened with the character Kyle he is the main character. In this book the setting takes place in school and on Kyle's house. This mysterious book has unexpected twists for example Kyle has a bad life and tries to do what he can to get it better but that does not wo...more
characters.This book is one of the best book I've read so far. The genre of this book is mystery in this book many strange things happened with the character Kyle he is the main character. In this book the setting takes place in school and on Kyle's house. This mysterious book has unexpected twists for example Kyle has a bad life and tries to do what he can to get it better but that does not wo...more
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I read the book YOU by Charles Beniot. My book was a perfect fit for me because it started off with a lot of things happening in the first couple pages that kept me interested in seeing what would happen next. The story line fits me well because of the things that the characters in the book did is very similar to a lot of things they do, but not severe. It kept me very interested seeing how the school worked and how many things were similar to the way our school works but their school had many ...more
In my book "You" by Charles Benoit, the main character, Kyle, talks about his life throughout high school. He talks about his best friends Max and Derrick who are considered hoodies, and are the reason why he goes to Midlands High rather than Odyssey because he decided to slack off with them instead of excel in school which forced him to go to Midlands High, the school for the normal kids who are not as intelligent as everyone else. Kyle has a friend named Ashley who he has wanted to d...more
This is a very quick read and I sped through it wanting to know what happens to Kyle.
I loved the way it's written, second personn present which is different, very much throwing the reader directly into the story. You get Kyle's thoughts and actions and his realizations of the mistakes he's made and how he'd like to change them.
This all felt very real to me, that his thoughts and actions made sense for a fifteen year old boy who made the choice to become something of a slacker and a ...more
I loved the way it's written, second personn present which is different, very much throwing the reader directly into the story. You get Kyle's thoughts and actions and his realizations of the mistakes he's made and how he'd like to change them.
This all felt very real to me, that his thoughts and actions made sense for a fifteen year old boy who made the choice to become something of a slacker and a ...more
Mensaje para las amigas que te recomiendan esta novela sin avisar.
Sí, sabía de qué iba la novela. Nunca he dudado que la adolescencia es un periodo difícil, y las historias narradas en primera persona y cuyos protagonistas son niños o adolescentes, suelen se más emotivas y tiernas, especialmente las que tienen un final tan dramático como este. No es un spoiler, es un hecho.
¿Cuándo dejaste de hablar con tus padres? ¿Cuándo dejaste de jugar sentado en sus rodillas? ¿Cuándo os c...more
Sí, sabía de qué iba la novela. Nunca he dudado que la adolescencia es un periodo difícil, y las historias narradas en primera persona y cuyos protagonistas son niños o adolescentes, suelen se más emotivas y tiernas, especialmente las que tienen un final tan dramático como este. No es un spoiler, es un hecho.
¿Cuándo dejaste de hablar con tus padres? ¿Cuándo dejaste de jugar sentado en sus rodillas? ¿Cuándo os c...more
Kyle Chase is not just like any other boy in the world out there. He is weird and always wears the same clothes on him everyday. That's not the typical student in school that I personally would have seen. What happens in this book is that Kyle seems to believe his life is just dull, boring and probably sad in his opinion. His crush does not take him seriously, his friends are losers in his eyes and he just seems like a misfit. Kyle doesn't enjoy all the other things that teenagers would enjoy...more
If you aren't sure what second-person narration looks like, check out this book. The main character here, Kyle, is telling the story but in second person, ie. using the term "you" to tell what's happening. It seems strange at first and has bothered me in the few other books I have read narrated in this perspective, but this story is so fast-paced that after awhile I barely noticed the point of view at all. I liked this book for a couple of reasons: first, it should appeal to an under-...more
This novel is short, sweet, and mysterious. Benoit has won an Edgar Award for a past novel and it shows. There is a tension within the novel that drags you onward. I was pleasantly surprised by the creativity in the construction and writing of the book. The plot opens with what appears to be a gruesome death scene, and is one of the major components of the tension factor. Beyond this first bloody scene there is very little horror or mystery until the end of the novel. But, because you’ve read th...more
this book was Unique in the fact that it is written in the second person. This makes Us readers feel like we are the man character Kyle. Kyle is an angry young man who has taken a wrong turn in life . at one time he was quite and good student but now in his tenth grade year he is falling. He hangs out with a slacker crowd in school called the hoodies. He is scarred to ask out the girl he likes. other than the girl he likes he seems pretty uncaring about everything else. the real trouble of the s...more
When I first started reading this book I really liked it.
Since Charles Benoit wrote YOU in 2nd person, it was like nothing I've read before,
I absolutely loved it.
I would love to find more books that are written like this.
It started out great, and I started getting so excited because I thought I found an amazing book.
I read a lot of reviews with people saying that it was stunning.
But about half way through the book I starting thinking,
"Alright, so where exa...more
Since Charles Benoit wrote YOU in 2nd person, it was like nothing I've read before,
I absolutely loved it.
I would love to find more books that are written like this.
It started out great, and I started getting so excited because I thought I found an amazing book.
I read a lot of reviews with people saying that it was stunning.
But about half way through the book I starting thinking,
"Alright, so where exa...more
You HarperCollins Publishers, 2010, 223 pp., $16.99
Charles Benoit ISBN 978-0-06-1947D4-9
“You’re just a kid. It can't be your fault. But then there’s all that blood.” You By Charles Benoit is a book about Kyle Chase or You, the book is told in second person perspective which is where you are the main character. Kyle is just an ordinary 15-year-old, with not many friends, but when he meets Zach, things start to change. Zach invites Kyle over to his house for late night pa...more
Charles Benoit ISBN 978-0-06-1947D4-9
“You’re just a kid. It can't be your fault. But then there’s all that blood.” You By Charles Benoit is a book about Kyle Chase or You, the book is told in second person perspective which is where you are the main character. Kyle is just an ordinary 15-year-old, with not many friends, but when he meets Zach, things start to change. Zach invites Kyle over to his house for late night pa...more
You is a combination problem novel/murder novel about a young 15 year old teen named Kyle who feels disconnected from his school and family. He drifts through life and the only thing that he can get excited about is a girl named Ashley. He had friends, but his underachieving ways land him in another school, as they go on to the school for “smart kids.” His new friends are fellow underachievers, but he has only a thin connection to them. Then Zach arrives. Zach is a brilliant and sadisticall...more
YOU should have been an impossible book. Second person, present tense, "book noir" YA novel. Give me a break.
That's what I thought when I first heard the author describe his book last summer. I looked at the cover and saw nothing that interested me, so I passed it by. I saw it again on a shelf last week, and on some whim I picked it up and read the first line:
"You're surprised at all the blood."
I was immediatly bonde...more
That's what I thought when I first heard the author describe his book last summer. I looked at the cover and saw nothing that interested me, so I passed it by. I saw it again on a shelf last week, and on some whim I picked it up and read the first line:
"You're surprised at all the blood."
I was immediatly bonde...more
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The book "You" has several different settings, most of them where Kyle gets in some kind of trouble. But the main setting is in his school, Midlands High. The place he is forced to be even though he doesn’t want to be, the place he meets Zack, who is the kid who changed his life, and the place where he is when his life is completely changed. The book has many events that lead up to the last, unsettling event of the book. The first thing that is said, the thing that grabs the readers at...more
To be honest, I didn’t know what I was really in store for when I signed up to read You. Insightful teen stories isn’t usually what I look for in a good book. The excerpt doesn’t really give you a good indication of what the story is about other than it being the Life and Times of Kyle Chase. And really, that’s about all the story is. You, while it doesn’t sound all that thrilling and let’s be honest, it really wasn’t that gripping of an account, did have its good moments. You isn’t somethi...more
Another "one-sitting" book,"YOU" grips you right from the start and keeps you there until the startling end. The twist to this book is that it is written so that YOU are the main character. You are Kyle. You are having Kyle's thoughts, feeling Kyle's emotions, and enduring Kyle's experiences.
This book reads like an unstoppable avalanche. Every choice "you" make leads you one step closer to the inevitable outcome. "You" don't see it coming, you co...more
This book reads like an unstoppable avalanche. Every choice "you" make leads you one step closer to the inevitable outcome. "You" don't see it coming, you co...more
Know how you sometimes talk to yourself? How you sit there and wonder what the hell you're doing? How it's sometimes easier to take a step back from yourself, as if you've suddenly become this really interesting bug no one's ever seen before? How, if you employed second-person narration as an internal thought, your high school English teacher would ding you? That's You. Known for his adult mysteries, this is fellow Dear-Teen-Me author Benoit's first YA novel, one that employs that second-person ...more
You open a book and it hits you in the face with broken glass, blood, and screaming. You haven’t met anyone yet and so don’t know who the other players are. You’re confused. You’re anxious. You might even be angry. You decide to just go with it.
You are Kyle, a high school sophomore and hapless and angry loner. He made some bad decisions and is now resigned to a path in life that he can’t find a way off of. His father is a disembodied voice shouting at the TV, his mother is the Muppet...more
You are Kyle, a high school sophomore and hapless and angry loner. He made some bad decisions and is now resigned to a path in life that he can’t find a way off of. His father is a disembodied voice shouting at the TV, his mother is the Muppet...more
You might think that a book written in the second person voice would get tiring, but you'd be wrong. Instead it deftly personalizes Kyle's story and makes it feel like your own. You really understand what Kyle is feeling, particularly since you find it described so effectively; you know what he is thinking and feeling without being told because his actions and reactions make it clear to you. You and he both know he makes almost every wrong decision possible, always leading toward ever greater...more
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Entrancing and guttingly real, You combines a unique writing style, a relatable mess of a main character, and a shocking string of events for one powerful punch. Written as if both speaking to the reader and writing as if the reader were actually Kyle, the title denotes the narrative while the book still centers around Kyle. With a steady building of events and a jaw dropping conclusion, You will leave the reader reeling and dumbfounded in all the best ways.
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There's a reason the ARC of You has blurb after blurb from authors, librarians and booksellers-Charles Benoit has written a stunning YA debut.
In the author's note in the beginning of the book, Mr. Benoit states that Kyle is not a bad teen nor is he good teen, but he's a typical teen and I couldn't agree more. Kyle is that teen boy that doesn't feel like he fits in anywhere, is somewhat awkward, and that most everyone have pegged as a "loser." Kyle is an incredibly believab...more
In the author's note in the beginning of the book, Mr. Benoit states that Kyle is not a bad teen nor is he good teen, but he's a typical teen and I couldn't agree more. Kyle is that teen boy that doesn't feel like he fits in anywhere, is somewhat awkward, and that most everyone have pegged as a "loser." Kyle is an incredibly believab...more
15 year old Kyle Chase belongs to the Hoodie Group because of his choice of attire. He goes to the loser school Midlands while his high-achieving friends attend Odyssey. Kyle refers to the scar on his hand several times but never really tells us what happened. He's failing most of his classes and only comes alive when he encounters Ashley, the girl of his dreams. However, he never dares to tell her his feelings until it is too late. Kyle is coasting through life - drinking, hanging out, entering...more
Very, very interesting. I've never read a book written in the second person -- you. The "you" in this story is Kyle Chase, who had everything going for him -- brains, ambition, friends -- until the 8th grade. Something happened (it's never mentioned what it was) and he just stopped trying. His friends moved on to the best high school and promising lives, while he is stuck at the high school for losers where he runs with the hoodie crowd -- those guys who wear black-hooded sweatshir...more
Reading You is like climbing up a mountain only to be pushed off the peak. The climax occurs at the very end of the novel, and the falling action is a brief plunge to a bloody end. But don't let that dissuade you from reading this novel. The way it's written, as though the main character is talking to you as if you're him (I know that's a bit confusing, but I couldn't think of any other way to say it) is so unique and fresh. It's truly a style of writing that I have never seen before.
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I really liked this book. It is about a kid who has just started 10th grade and who has some problems. I don't want to give any of the book away, but I really liked it. The very first page is a hook. I really didn't want to read this book originally, but after reading the first page I had to continue. There were parts in the middle of the book that were kind of boring, but I didn't even really notice because I was looking for answers that I had from the first page of the book. There were d...more
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When he's not traveling around the globe in the search of exotic, tax-deductible settings for his mysteries, Charles Benoit spends his days pumping out subliminal-laced advertising.
Nominated for an Edgar and a Barry, Relative Danger won the Franklin award and was the darling of fans and critics alike. Out of Order (2006) is set in modern India while Noble Lies (September 2007) takes place i...more
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Nominated for an Edgar and a Barry, Relative Danger won the Franklin award and was the darling of fans and critics alike. Out of Order (2006) is set in modern India while Noble Lies (September 2007) takes place i...more
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“There's always a but. It's a magical word. You can say anything you want, go on for as long as you want, and then all you have to do is add the magic word and instantly everything you said is erased, turned meaningless, just like that.”
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“Here are the Top Ten things that your parents say to you:
-Is that all you're going to do all day, sit in front of the computer?
-When I was your age I had two jobs.
-Why don't you wear some clothes that fir for a change?
-Turn it down. I can hear it all the way over here.
-You're not eating that for dinner.
-Did you do your homework?
-Stop mumbling and speak up.
-Now what did you do?
-Because I said so.
-No.”
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-Is that all you're going to do all day, sit in front of the computer?
-When I was your age I had two jobs.
-Why don't you wear some clothes that fir for a change?
-Turn it down. I can hear it all the way over here.
-You're not eating that for dinner.
-Did you do your homework?
-Stop mumbling and speak up.
-Now what did you do?
-Because I said so.
-No.”
