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Sep 05, 2011

Alexis rated it:

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I'm just going to go ahead and say this to get it over with... I'm a Gleek. Thanks to my friend I'm addicted to Glee. I love the show and can't wait for season 3. Who's with me?!?

When I saw this book I thought: "This is going to be a more child friendly version of Glee that I'll most likely get bored with." I was wrong on the child friendly part. This is absolutely a young adult book no matter how childish it may seem! The boring part is another sto More...

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Apr 27, 2011

Jolo rated it:

Let me first start by saying I am a total Gleek. I am in love with Glee and everything about it. Which is why I feel guilty about this review.

I just felt that was needed before I start writing this.

The book sucked. Why did I even read this in the first place? Oh, it was because my friend got this for me for Christmas and I felt guilty not reading it (it DOES cost a lot here in the Philippines). I knew because of people from Tumblr before hand that it was bad, but I didn't thi More...

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Nov 16, 2010

Shelley rated it:

Jenny bought these for the kids series section and I offered to read it to see if it was appropriate for our fifth grade and under collection. I'm pretty iffy on that.

Reading for myself, I was really, really bugged when things didn't match up to the show. How hard would it have been to watch the first two or three episodes before writing this? It's not a huge time drain, okay? Here, the club was Kurt, Mercedes, Artie and Tina until Kurt invited Rachel. But we saw Sandy feeling up the More...

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Sep 24, 2010

Lyndsey rated it:

I have been a massive fan on Glee since it first started so I was both curious and excited to see how it would be transferred into a book and prequel. There was a lot of good reviews for it on Twitter so I was starting to think that it was done really well. I was unfortunately left not completely loving it though.

Glee: The Beginning really accentuates the personalities of the main characters and because of this, I could imagine them as they are on the TV show. I liked being able to More...

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Jul 29, 2010

Liz rated it:

Glee: The Beginning is a short, fun read chronicling the events of McKinley High before Mr Schuester takes over Glee Club. The book starts off with Rachel Berry, resident over-achiever and know-it-all, being asked by Kurt to join Glee. After much deliberation, Rachel agrees to join, and the rest of the novel concentrates on the difficulties the members of the Glee Club have trying to avoid humiliation and gain acceptance from their peers and the “popular crowd”. Along the way, slushies are tosse More...

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Dec 29, 2010

Sean rated it:

I'm really not expecting great literature when it comes to a novel based on the series Glee, but I at least expect it to fit in with the continuity of the show (although I guess it could be argued that this author is being as wildly inconsistent with plot and characterisation as the screenwriters). What you have here are blatant canonical facts being overlooked here such as Sandy Ryerson running the Glee club before Schue takes over - Ryerson is nowhere to be seen, and therefore the huge plot d More...

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Mar 03, 2011

Sophia rated it:

this book is about a bundle of kids from the school McKinley High. if you didnt already know, glee is a hit tv show on fox five. every tuesday night i think. its started about a year ago. currently its on the second season. and i must say, i am a huggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee gleek. like seriously. its so good. watch it. back to the book. this book is based on the background of before season one started. the whole point of the book is the different situations these glee kids have. for e More...

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Aug 06, 2010

YA Reader rated it:

When I received this book I wasn't really sure what to expect. I loved the TV series but I've never really been a big fan of tie-in books. This one luckily is a bit different. It's actually an original novel so what happens in it is separate to the content of the television shows. The book also takes place before the Glee series so you really get to know all of the characters well.

There are lots of things I liked about this book but in particular I liked the way Lowell presented the More...

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Aug 06, 2010

Jesse rated it:

Before I begin I should point out that I love Glee (how it managed to pass by the rest of my family I have absolutley no idea), I loved the story and I especially loved the songs – many of them I preferred over the orignal (can I say that?) so approaching the book was interesting in that obviously one of the key parts of the show (the songs) was missing.

This aside I felt the book really captures the spirit of Glee, it may not be the TV series but it stood up well on it’s own ground, More...

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Sep 27, 2010

Kris rated it:

For fans of Glee, this prequel is a lot of fun. It is a bit of a bummer without the music, but I still really enjoyed it. There was enough drama and dialogue to keep my interest. Mr. Schu is not in the picture yet as Kurt, Mercedes, Artie and Tina enlist Rachel’s help to improve the Glee Club. They have a recital planned and are scared to death they will make fools of themselves. Rachel uses the morning announcements to give herself a higher profile, singing and bravely challenging the Che More...

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Apr 05, 2011

Mello rated it:

Honestly, this is a shallow fanfiction about a shallow tv show. I watch the show when I have nothing else to do, and I'm not disappointed. Sophia Lowell did what was expected. But in all honestly, the book itself is pretty mediocre. I don't know why I read it. I didn't laugh once, the Rachel/Finn was worse in the book than it was on the screen (nevermind, I take it back), and it was so boring at parts that I had to skip chapters and chapters at a time.

Not saying that I expected magical More...

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Jan 29, 2012

Turtlelove.jcs rated it:

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Glee: The Beginning
Written by Sophia Lowell, this novel was published by Hachette Book Group in New York, New York in August of 2010. I think this book was very good and I would read the other two after. I would recommend this book to any “Gleek”.
The story of the Glee Club takes place at McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. The entire plot is about a few talented “nerds” trying to make their mark on the school and make e More...

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Dec 04, 2011

Tabby rated it:

First off i'm a huge glee fan which is why I found myself asking these 5 questions.

1. How does Finn even know Rachel is alive? cause they made it pretty clear he didn't until the first episode. So him already having feelings for her is just ridiculous

2. Why is Santana so out of character? Everytime she opened her mouth I wanted to pull my hair out! she doesn't talk like that ok!!!

3. Why is Mercedes already crushing on Kurt? correct me if im wrong but didn't s More...

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Oct 15, 2010

Josh rated it:

This young adult novel takes place before the television show began, basically covering the week or two before. All of the characters are present and accounted for and the author has done a fine job of capturing their personalities and styles. The story details how Rachel Berry was first brought into the glee club by Kurt and how her energy and drive pushed Tina, Artie, Mercedes, Kurt to take risks and put themselves out there even while the popular students make their lives a nightmare.
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Jan 10, 2011

Rachel rated it:

I am a total "Gleek," and I have been in love with the show since the very first episode. I'll spare you the details. But of course, I had to read the Glee book that answers my burning questions about what happened before the t.v. show kicked off, such as what grades the main characters are in, and how did Puck and Quinn wind up in bed together? I have a life, just not on Tuesdays.

Anyways, the book is true to form, right down to Sue Sylvester's hilariously-vile comments, Fi More...

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Aug 25, 2010

Sophie rated it:

As a huge fan of the TV show Glee, I was very excited when I was given the chance to read and review Glee: The Beginning.

It was obvious reading Glee: The Beginning that Sophia Lowell really knows her Glee. Every element of the characters was spot on: voice, personality, dialogue and actions. It was so much fun to get into the heads of Puck, Kurt, Quinn, Rachel, Mercedes, Finn, Artie and Tina who I’ve grown to love over the series. I was a little disappointed that Mr Schu didn’t get More...

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Nov 01, 2010

Cam rated it:

Glee ritten by:Sophia Lowell

Calling all Gleeks! Great book to read!

Get more of your favorite characters in this Glee book staring Rachel,Your vavouite school Mckinley High, And more
All great performances deserve a warm-up! Enroll early at McKinley High.The book was well written, but not as good as I had hoped. I found that the TV show hade more Action and alot more exsiting seen's! The author Sophia lowell, did a ok job on of the each character's personality,But they are More...

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Jul 16, 2011

Kelly-anne.♥. rated it:

1st - I am a total gleek! My favourite tv show ever!! So of course when I saw this at the library I snatched it up immediately. I have to say I am very disapointed. At first I gave this book 2 stars, because although I went through it pretty quick when I actually had time to read, I was bored pretty much the whole entire time. In the end, I gave it another star because I do still think it was a cool idea to write a book set before the show began, and I just love glee so much that 2 stars didn't More...

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Jan 20, 2011

Zooey rated it:

I can be very short about this one: it was awful. It doesn't often happen to me that I feel the urge to get myself a toy gun that looks awfully real and then fly over to the author and threaten her to take her hands off of the computer and keep them where I can see them. But now I really did, while I'm actually very anti-violent!

This book just completely missed its point to me. Obviously a tie-in book does not equal high quality literature, but this...?! I think there might be better More...

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Sep 15, 2010

Alea rated it:

I'm still struggling on how to describe this venture from the screen to the page. There is some good stuff in this book and stuff really not so good stuff. But overall I'm glad I read it.

In this book we get more of everything from the characters, Rachel is more annoying, Finn is a little more dumb, Quinn is meaner. I sort of wish they hadn't been. But I think this comes from being inside of the characters head instead of being a spectator. I did like seeing how Quinn and Puck got toget More...

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Dec 22, 2011

Jade rated it:

This was little more than poorly researched fanfiction, but at least it was pretty accurate when it came to the characters and their behaviour. It's easy to read and quite entertaining if you don't mind that it doesn't corespond with the show.
Some of the parts were a bit boring, but that was probably due to my own problem with certain characters (like Quinn).
In the end it wasn't that bad. I liked the whole story about Rachel, which was luckily the bigger part of the book. Even though More...

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Aug 29, 2010

Jenny rated it:

GLEEEEEEEEE!! Yep, if you can't already tell, I loved this book. It's the perfect antidote to pining away for the TV show, and is written so well that you feel like you're watching it rather than reading it. Sophia Lowell manages to capture each character's dialogue and personality perfectly, and offers an extra insight into their pre-Glee lives.

I'll be honest here: I'm quite surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. I'm a big fan of the show so I knew I'd like it, but I was a bit c More...

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Sep 24, 2010

Sarah rated it:

Basic writing and contained everything I hate about Glee then magnified it - I can't bloody stand Rachel, Quinn, or Finn and yet there they are with the book's focus firmly on them; as usual, the minority characters are more after thoughts - they don't even get to be on the front cover or on any of the giveaway posters! Plus, everything in the book contradicts how the Glee Club actually started as seen in the pilot - and last time I checked, the pilot was still bloody canon. Even the most hardco More...

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Aug 12, 2010

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Sep 14, 2010

Franzie rated it:

This book will be loved by all the Gleeks out there.
It revolves around Rachel, Glee club and the Finn/Quinn/Puck mystery.

Lowell's writing surely is not the best in the literary world but it definitely suits the book. I liked how she managed to keep the flow to the story. One second, she wrote about Quinn wearing a short skirt, the next she talked about how Puck found that excact skirt totally hot. I really liked it.

As a die-hard Finchel shipper, I was very delighted to s More...

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Nov 19, 2010

Abbie rated it:

Best writing ever? High literature? Not really. But it's GLEE. That earned it a bit higher than it might have on its own. It assumes that you know about the characters, and have seen most of the first season, considering that it either states some obvious things or hints strongly at things to come.

What I'm not so sure about is that the kids really knew each other very well and were all in Glee Club before. But possibly, it pulls on some vague details.

A little too much Y More...

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Sep 11, 2010

Iman rated it:

Glee: The Beginning describes the lead-up to the pilot episode. It is a glance into the minds and lives of Rachel, Finn, Quinn, Puck, Artie, Tina, Mercedes and Kurt before Mr Schuester became director of the glee club. We really do get the know the characters better and their personalities mostly stay true to the television series.

However, there are a few continuity errors. I had always assumed that Rachel, Tina, Artie, Kurt, Mercedes hadn't been in the glee club prior to the pilot. More...

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Apr 03, 2011

Monika rated it:

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Jan 23, 2011

Menoedh rated it:

Akhirnya selesai juga salah satu buku yang masuk kategori bacaan kamar mandi gue hehe..buku ini ngga memberikan sesuatu yang baru atau menarik. Kalau niat para penulis asli Glee menarik perhatian orang baru, buku ini dipastikan bakal gagal. Tapi kalau niatnya “hanya” menambahkan cerita apa yang terjadi sebelum episode 1 Season 1, ya memang hanya itu yang mereka sampaikan. Bisa divonis kalau yang membaca belum menonton Glee, buku ini bener-bener ngga penting.

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Jan 01, 2011

Laura rated it:

My first tv-novel was a Partridge Family book, so it seems appropriate to be reading one about Glee. The problem is that I'm not a huge Gleek - am I the only one that finds Rachel's facial expression when she sings annoying?

ANYway, this takes us to the start of the year, when Rachel first joins Glee Club; it's only got four members and an absentee advisor/coach, but she's sure she can make something of it. There are predictable run-ins with the Cheerios, and we see the start of h More...

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