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Gave me a absolute headache. Maybe I would have appreciated this book more as a teen, but as a mom of teens, I just wanted to smack him. Sorry to offend anyone who enjoyed it.

I first read this in high school on a banned books kick and didn't get it. When I read it again in graduate school after a professor said read it again and put it in the societal context for me it was great.
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Feb 06, 2009
Marla
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it was ok
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With reservations: Language...Lots of languaage: GD, JC, SOB, C-sakes, bastard...no S-, C--t or F- yet. Beginning was slow and the language is just for the shock value though probably authentic for boys prep school.

If I had read it 17 years ago I probably would have loved it. I'm kind of glad I waited so long.
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Denise
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