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When Nick's mother dies suddenly, the 14 year old is sent straight into a boys' home, where he finds institutional intimidation and violence keep order. Nick thinks life can't get any worse - but the professionally respected deputy head, Mr Creal, who has been grooming him with sweets and solace, has something much more sinister in mind.

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Published December 7th 2010 by Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) (first published 2009)

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Jan 06, 2013 Cate Levinson rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult

The day started out like any other: Nick's mother banging on the door, begging him to get up, get ready for school, and get out the door. When Nick does finally emerge from the warm embrace of his comforter, his mother's giddy weirdness has him cramming his breakfast as quick as he can so he can escape her odd, giddy energy. But tragedy strikes only moments after he is out the door. It turns out she was eager to get him out of the house so she could unwind with an "old friend"-- heroine. She die...more

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Aug 29, 2012 AngielovesYA rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: edgy-ya, intense, rape, sexual-abuse, teen-life, ya, violence, heartbreaking, bullying, nasty-villains

I really fell for this book. It had me gripped all the way through. I loved Nicholas' character, and wanted him to come out alright, which is a hard ask considering the theme of the story. What happened to him was heartbreaking. I hated the villain of this story so much that I wanted him to burn in hell. The situation that Nicholas was put in what so unfair, but it (I assumed) was realistic. It read like a real-life story, which made it even more sadder. I could imagine this happening to boys wh...more

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Apr 07, 2013 Nagwa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: crazed-2012-challenge, realistic-fiction

Wow this book was intense. The things that happened to Nick, Oliver, Davey, Stella and Jones were horrible. It brought out different reactions from me. I actually threw this book across the room. I kept saying "no no this can't be happening" I almost cried for Nick... Ok ok I did cry a little bit. And there was moments that were funny. I'm surprised Nick still had a sense of humor. That's one thing that made me like him. And I thought for sure he was going to end up like Jones. Thank goodness he...more

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Apr 19, 2012 Nate rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

Ok...what to say. I must admit reading this book was like watching a train wreck. You want to look away cus the image is disturbing but at the same time you can't cus for whatever reason you're captivated.
No doubt the subject matter of this book is quite disturbing, I found some of it difficult to read but yet I kept turning the page. I found myself rooting for the main character - Nick and cursing the author for subjecting this poor bloke to such misery. I kept waiting for this kid to finally...more

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Jan 07, 2011 Diane rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, abuse

Nicholas Dane is 14 when his mother overdoses with heroin in their flat. He has no other relatives, but his mother’s best friend is willing to take him in. When Jenny fails (miserably) to impress the social services lady, Nick is sent to a boys’ home. His trouble begins immediately – brutal beatings from other boys and the adult supervisors. He thinks his situation will improve when a sympathetic staff member takes him under his wing. Unfortunately, Creal is a pedophile grooming him for himself...more

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Jan 28, 2012 Peyrac rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, favorites

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Mar 26, 2011 Raina rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: adoption, not-amerika, psychological, realistic, urban, ya

It never occurred to me to stop reading this book. Which is generally a sign that it was good. Nick's mom has just died, leaving Nick with no relations. He gets dumped into the system, and lands at a horrible home for young men where he is preyed upon by abusers of all kinds. The consequences of that experience last through the rest of his life.

This is a totally Dickensian novel, almost to the point where I wanted to Cliffs Notes the plots of Oliver Twist or David Copperfield to see if it was in...more

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Mar 07, 2011 Kristina rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Nicholas Dane is a modern retelling of Oliver Twist. Fourteen year old, Nick, after his mother dies of a heroin overdoes (a problem Nick wasn’t even aware she had) is sent to Meadow Hill, the worst place a young boy could be sent to. While there, Nick is beaten, whipped and tortured. Tony Creal, head of Meadow Hill promises to help Nick get out there (Unbeknownst to Nick, him mom’s best friend as well as a long lost great Uncle are willing to help him), while secretly making sure that no one can...more

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Feb 16, 2011 Jennifer Lavoie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: dystopia, older-teens, person-library, abuse, based-on-classics

Wow this book... I'm torn between what to grade it, so I'll go with four stars. Part of me hates this book, but part of me loves it. It was a fast, easy read, but difficult at the same time. The amount of abuse Nick faces is just incredible.

What first attracted me to the book was the cover, and then the description inside that said it was "Dickensian" and loosely based on Oliver Twist. I was excited, so I bought it thinking I would put it in my classroom library after I read it. I will not be d...more

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Nov 01, 2010 Fence rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

This is the sort of book I don’t usually read. You know the ones, from the “sad story” section of the bookshop. The misery-books as I call them. But a few years ago I’d heard of Melvin Burgess as an author to look out for. I’ve read his Lady : My life as a Bitch and to be honest I wasn’t all that impressed, but I’ll always give an author a second go. So I tried this one.

In the 1980′s Nick Dane is growing up as an average, if bright kid. He comes from a single parent family, and his mother has a...more

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Aug 08, 2010 H.I. Al-Muhairi rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ya, tough-subjects, teen-trouble, realistic-fiction, death-and-pain, crime-mystery, 2010, favorites, psycological, horror, aww

Nicholas Dane was a school-skipper, a casual smoker, a theiver-on-whim at 14. That is, until his mom died because of an over-dose. His mom's best friend, Jenny, fought to get custody of him but he was eventually shipped off to Meadow Hill, a home just to the likes of Nick.

  "It was with a sense of horror that Nick understood that the old man before him had been carrying on with the same tricks ever since. Twenty years? Can it really have been so long? And how many years before that? And how many

...more Nicholas Dane was a school-skipper, a casual smoker, a theiver-on-whim at 14. That is, until his mom died because of an over-dose. His mom's best friend, Jenny, fought to get custody of him but he was eventually shipped off to Meadow Hill, a home just to the likes of Nick.

  "It was with a sense of horror that Nick understood that the old man before him had been carrying on with the same tricks ever since. Twenty years? Can it really have been so long? And how many years before that? And how many boys? How many Nick Danes and Olivers...How many Joneses had this wicked old man damaged to destruction?" Nicholas Dane, page 405 (Paperback edition)

I was asking myself that exactly as I was reading the book, to finally see Burgess address it to us in the conclusion--because it's not an end really. The story of Nick Dane is only one of many.

'Nicholas Dane' is not for everybody, it concerns crime in all forms, sexual abuse, jail, orphaned kids, uncaring parents..etc.

It may seem like a pretty bleak novel, but it's not. In Nick, there's the hope that even after all the shit he's been through (and he's seen all kinds of shit) that he'd move on. Not exactly forget, just live with the past's hauntings.

It felt like Burgess was pleading the readers to give people on the streets (for lack of a better term) a chance. There's a reason for the way they became, whether: drug addicts, sexual abusers, physical abusers, serial killers, criminals.

I liked Nick and Davey, and even Jones (I understood why he became the person he was) and Sunshine, maybe Red. But I felt like there was a distance put between the reader and the characters.

Burgess wrote like a second-hand observer and he's letting us in on what he heard/saw, or what felt like re-telling the story.

It worked in making all the characters feel real, but it made it hard to reach out for them.

In the end, I'm still wondering: how many Nick Danes and Olivers..how many Joneses the world doesn't know about? (less)

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Apr 04, 2012 Dominique rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: orphan, adult-fiction, moral-of-the-story-is

HANDS DOWN ONE OF THE MOST INTENSE NOVELS I EVER READ.Nicholas Dane

To begin let me applaud Melvin Burgess for addressing such a crucial topic regarding child abuse and molestation. I found this novel painfully realistic and disturbing at times,so much so i had to put it down and count to 20 before I continued reading some passages. I'm finding it very hard to review this novel it think i have a sort of love/hate relationship with it(yes I have relationships with my novels.... Don't judge me).

Th...more HANDS DOWN ONE OF THE MOST INTENSE NOVELS I EVER READ.Nicholas Dane

To begin let me applaud Melvin Burgess for addressing such a crucial topic regarding child abuse and molestation. I found this novel painfully realistic and disturbing at times,so much so i had to put it down and count to 20 before I continued reading some passages. I'm finding it very hard to review this novel it think i have a sort of love/hate relationship with it(yes I have relationships with my novels.... Don't judge me).

The protagonist Nicholas Dane is 14 year olds and his mother is found died in their home, COD being an overdose. In a series of VERY unfortunate events Nicholas finds hisself at Meadow Hill a home for boys. Let me tell you when reading the discreption and way of life of at Meadow Hill(which is a perfect metaphor for Social Darwinism at its best)I was transported to a different world. It is made blatantly clear that boys at the home are induring extreme mental/physical abuse from not just each other but from the homes' staff as well,and Nicholas is no exception. Throw in a little molestation and rape and this place should be integrated into Dante's circles of hell.

What I didn't enjoy so much about this novel was the protagonist Nicholas Dane. Now don't get me wrong i love a well flawed chacater as much as the next girl, but he was just too naive for my liking.I found myself constantly yelling at black and white pages, it just seemed to me he kept putting his trust in the wrong adult figures throughout the story and its not as though he grow in the suburbs so i felt like Mr. Dane should have a little more cautious from the jump.

Also constantly found myself more intrigued by others characters(Oliver)wishing the story was about them rather Nicholas Dane. It is a huge problem when i become more interested in the complementary charcaters rather the main charcter.

I LOVE how detailed the setting was:) Myself growing up in a very similar nieghborhood as Nicholas(expect in the U.S and in the 21st century) could really relate to all the quirky people and families in the nieghborhood. They reminded me so much of people I know.

I would have been content to give this book four stars if it was not for the ending, which was rushed and slapped on like a tired prositute's makeup. I just wish it was a little more descriptive and less infromative( if that makes sense).

Nicholas Dane as I stated above is a very intense novel and can be bleak times but overall this novel open my mind up to a world I was only slightly informed about. So even with a weak protagonist and hacked ending i would still recommend this novel to friend because its the story itself that makes the novel so compelling.
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May 21, 2011 Adam rated it 3 of 5 stars

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3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable.

Nicholas Dane is fourteen years old when his mother dies unexpectedly, leaving no one to care for him. It is only after months of searching that anyone is able to find a relative willing to help but, by then, it is too late. Though a friend of Nicholas’s mother tries to take him in and care for him, the Social Services will not allow it, and Nick is shuttled off to a home for boy – in other words, Hell. Nicholas must endure endless cruelt...more

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Apr 21, 2010 smoreads rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

is nicholas nickelby for really, REALLY ADULTish young adults?

but, seriously, this book is rife w/sexual abuse, physical abuse, mental abuse, drug abuse...basically every kind of abuse humans have invented to torture themselves & others with, from time in memorium, made it into this book. it was harsh, it was terrifying, but it was worth reading for absolute sure.

i liked it; i think it's important that people write books like nicholas dane. however, it would never be something i'd recommend...more

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Apr 07, 2013 Joy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

*signs* Where do I begin?

I seriously can't say I enjoyed reading this book or even say "it was a good book;" without feeling sick to my stomach. The horrible things that were done to this kid (Nick) and others like him is disgusting. How people like Tony can take advantage of kids like Nick, Oliver, even Jones and think it's okay. The one part that nearly brought tears to my eyes was when Oliver got caught and begged Nick to not leave him. I desperately needed Oliver to make it out. And not kno...more

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Dec 19, 2011 Stephanie Banks rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: engl-412, reviews-finished

After his mother dies, fourteen-year-old Nick is sent to a boys’ home called Meadow Hill. Nick new home a place of brutality, where boys constantly beat on each other and the staff is allowed to dole out cruel punishments. When Nick is ready to give up all hope, a light appears in his dark world. Mr. Creal, the head deputy, sometimes gives Nick treats and invites him over to his flat to offer the boy a few hours of escape from the torture of Meadow Hill. What Nick doesn’t realize is that by trus...more After his mother dies, fourteen-year-old Nick is sent to a boys’ home called Meadow Hill. Nick new home a place of brutality, where boys constantly beat on each other and the staff is allowed to dole out cruel punishments. When Nick is ready to give up all hope, a light appears in his dark world. Mr. Creal, the head deputy, sometimes gives Nick treats and invites him over to his flat to offer the boy a few hours of escape from the torture of Meadow Hill. What Nick doesn’t realize is that by trusting Mr. Creal he is about to experience the worst pain of all.

Dubbed a modern and darker “Oliver Twist” by many reviewers, “Nicholas Dane” by Melvin Burgess is a bold tale about how those with much authority can abuse that power. This is not a book that’s going to take you by the hand and walk you gently through a boy’s abuse. No, Burgess thrusts readers into Nick’s world and is sure that we see every horror for what it is. Many times while reading, I had to remind myself that this was a book for young adults. Burgess’ unrestrained writing style and horrific attention to detail are appropriate only for emotionally mature young adults and those who are not easily sickened.

Young adults who are fond of dark, gruesome tales should take a look at this book. Readers who are interested in reading about topics like abuse, bullying, or runaways might want to try it too. Even though this is a powerful book, I doubt there is any way it will be taught in a school, unless adults become a lot more lenient about what students read in a classroom. The book includes drug use, explicit language, heavy violence, and descriptions of sexual abuse. I would recommend “Nicholas Dane” to older teens and adults since the content is slightly too mature for younger readers. Girls may be interested in the book if they are into grim stories. But, it strikes me more as a book for boys, especially since every character worth identifying with is a male.

I give “Nicholas Dane” four stars out of five. It would have gotten five if the story had been a tad shorter. There were at least fifty to a hundred pages that slowed the story down and weren’t really needed. Aside from that one complaint, this was an unbelievably sickening tale. And I mean that in the best way.(less)

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Sep 07, 2012 Darcy rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, ya

I thought this one sounded good when I read the premise, but Nick turned me off from the start. He is a self-centered hoodlum and this is before his mom died. After, well, things get worse. I hated how crappy Nick treated Jenny, when all she was trying to do was help. I liked that she wanted to give Nick a home, too bad all he did was screw her over and in such a short time. It was at this point that I gave this one up. I just couldn't get past my dislike of Nick and didn't really care what bad...more

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Feb 27, 2011 Dylan rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Everyone (age limit: 17+)

Recommended to Dylan by: Melissa

Shelves: my-bookshelf, young-adult-fiction, favorites, books-read-in-2011, books-that-made-me-cry

Oh. My. God.

This book is quite possibly the best YA book I've ever read...and one of the best books I've read period.

WARNING: This book is not meant for younger readers. It is incredibly raw and mature for a YA book. (17+ rating)

This book is about a 14 year old boy named Nicholas Dane. He lives in Manchestor, England in 1984. His mother dies of a heroin overdose, and he is sent to live at Meadow Hill, a children's home run by Mr. Toms, an evil man who whips the kids that get in trouble.

Nick ha...more

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Feb 02, 2012 Marita Hansen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Genre: Edgy Young Adult, and in my opinion for older teenagers and adults.

Subject: A rather horrifying look at boys homes in 1980s Britain.

Synopsis: After Nicholas Dane’s mother dies unexpectedly from a drug overdose he is put into a boys’ home, where violence is used to keep order. After countless fights and what happens to him at the hands of the deputy-principle he goes on the run.

My Thoughts: This story was very sad, the topic being about how certain people in society abuse their positions...more

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Jun 29, 2012 Ruth rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The author was trying to copy Charles Dickens. Even I know that this is one of those Unspeakable Rules Which Can't Be Broken, because NO AUTHOR CAN EVER REPLICATE A DICKENS STORY. Of course it was gonna collapse and be overwhelmed with too many story lines due to the story's overall plot line. Of course the reader will be annoyed with the "fairy-tale-like" narration that Burgess has tried to use, because I for one hated the way the book was narrated.

Okay, this is a book about a kid who gets kic...more

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Oct 11, 2011 Barbara rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: book-eval-book

Nicholas Dane wound up in the British social services system after his mother overdosed on heroin. This tells you everything you need to know about Nick’s social class and opportunities. His mother wasn’t exactly a drug addict and she was trying to stay clean while she attended school. She wanted to improve herself. Once she died, Nick had no one. His mother’s friend Jenny tried to convince social services that she could take him in with her own two children, but that didn’t work because Nick wa...more

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Nov 10, 2011 Aline rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2011

Breath taking novel. Raw and touching. I devoured this book in a week. I had never read anything similar to this before and I am so glad I picked up this book.
The book is about Nicholas Dane, a 14 year old that after his mother’s sudden death caused by a heroin overdose, is sent to a Children’s Home that turns out being his worst possible nightmare. Nick went from a stable, enjoyable life, surrounded by love to a life of violence, abuse and suffering. All these struggles came when he most needed...more

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Mar 04, 2011 Bloody Bones rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Roman coup de coeur!

Ce livre est mon premier Burgess, qui est aussi l’auteur de Junk (roman sur la drogue). Et pour tout dire, je penses en lire d’autres!
L’auteur nous transporte dans un monde noir et sans concessions, où des enfants se font violer par des hommes, que même la lois ne peut stopper.

Presque chaque personnages a un passé douloureux qui les a poussés à faire de mauvais choix et même à devenir une personne mauvaise. Jones en est l’exemple même. C’est un personnage détestable, pour qui...more

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Jun 13, 2011 Kaethe rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adventure, age-ya, atheism, domesticity, fiction, friendship, kids, noir, orphans, p-o-c, ptsd, realistic, romance, social-issues, contemporary

When people start opining on the pages of the Wall Street Journal about how dark and disturbing YA fiction is, this is the sort of book you'd expect them to hold up. Because it is just as dark and disturbing as it can be. Nick's single mother, a sometime user of heroin dies of an overdose right in the beginning, and Nick's life goes straight to hell. He's fourteen, he has no family, and his mother's best friend, who sincerely wants to look after him is thwarted by the system, her useless boyfrie...more When people start opining on the pages of the Wall Street Journal about how dark and disturbing YA fiction is, this is the sort of book you'd expect them to hold up. Because it is just as dark and disturbing as it can be. Nick's single mother, a sometime user of heroin dies of an overdose right in the beginning, and Nick's life goes straight to hell. He's fourteen, he has no family, and his mother's best friend, who sincerely wants to look after him is thwarted by the system, her useless boyfriend, and her own children. Nick is promptly sent off to a facility for the most troubled boys where he is subjected to the useless cruelty of being beaten "like a man" by both the adults in charge and his fellow inmates. And then it gets worse when the reader discovers along with Nick that the only kindly adult to take an interest in him is a sexual predator, grooming him to be yet another in a long line of victims. And then it gets worse.

Burgess doesn't hold anything back. The book isn't prurient, but he does show us enough of what Nick endures to sicken the reader, and to explain how it works. The story is set in the early eighties, a time when the abuse of children was considered rare, and when the subject was still too taboo to be spoken of. It's a horrific story, but a rich one. Burgess doesn't let any characters off lightly. He shows how well-meaning people create the atmosphere in which a predator can thrive.

Truly, I can't imagine many parents wanting to discuss the subject with their children, nor many people recommending the book to teens. The behavior described is violent, and for the victims, soul-destroying. And yet, not talking about it allows this kind of abuse to flourish. Just as the works of Dickens highlighted the misery and abuse of the poor, with an idea to improvement, so does a book like this show us what needs to be done. Sexual predators are evil, and they terrify us, but how can we prevent them if we do not acknowledge them?

For some readers this book might serve as a warning, allowing them to identify harm before it attacks. For others the book will be a blessed reassurance that they are not to blame for their own victimization. For still others, the book will perhaps guide us to think about what we can do to prevent such horror from happening in the first place.

Yes, it is dark and disturbing, but we should be disturbed.

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May 02, 2013 justablondemoment rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: death-of-parents, sexual-abuse, foster-care, read-2011, addiction-drug, heroin, young-adult, social-issues, child-abuse

I read a lot of young adult books, mainly to keep in touch with my younger children. Many we read independently then talk over. I like it when my kids choose books that have topics that deal with issues of hardships. It allows me to look through the windows of their souls and see where and how they stand on social issues. This was one of those books that gave a great discussion between us. Well-written and a heart grabber I recommend this book for teens and adults.

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Mar 24, 2011 Ramarie rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is no walk in the park. Nicholas Dane is our main character and after his mother suddenly dies, he is put into care. The children's home where he ends up has its share of brutalizers and pedophiles. His escape is no real relief for the reader, as he ends up squatting in an abandoned place with a pot dealer. The author has a tale to tell about the corruption that used to exist in British care centers, and he writes it in the tone of a cautionary tale.

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Mar 24, 2011 Shiela rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, suspense, thriller

Wow, this was quite the book. Very disturbing, depressing and hopeless at times yet compulsively readable. I found myself rooting for the protagonist (out loud) on more than one occasion and having my heart broken the next. Excellent bibliotherapy material although I think this book would seriously disturb some readers, especially younger ones. It is a sad world when atrocities like the one Dane underwent happen in the world everyday. This one will haunt me for a while.

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Nov 11, 2011 Ms Anderson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Very well-written, but incredibly difficult to get through. Parts of it seem to move slowly, and parts of it just make my soul hurt because of the injustice of the situation the protagonist is thrown in. I just wanted to reach into the book and smack some of the characters around until they stopped being idiots. A great book, but not for the faint of heart.

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Oct 23, 2011 Wisteriouswoman rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I didn't like it after the first couple of chapters so I didn't finish it. I am just not interesting in reading a story about the seedy side of life. The guy's mum dies of a drug overdose while he is out cutting school. And it doesn't seem to have much hope of things getting better in the rest of the story.I just couldn't relate.

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May 04, 2012 Charlie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is just amazing. Its relative simple style makes it accessible to all, yet its subject matter is harrowing and thought-provoking. Its little side stories also make you feel completely involved with the characters lives. It's a brilliant book, and I'd recommend it to anyone.

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