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I didn't really know what to expect but I really liked it! It very sad so be aware!
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Just as good as the last time I read it. The ending is a bit rushed but mostly satisfactory. I love the dynamics in the Curtis family as well as in the gang. This book will always remind me of James Dean movies, because it’s got all the earmarks of the teen angst and melodrama he made famous in the 1950s.
Content: tobacco, alcohol, teen smoking, teen drinking, mythology mentioned, replacement profanity, replacement expletives, gambling, expletives
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Content: tobacco, alcohol, teen smoking, teen drinking, mythology mentioned, replacement profanity, replacement expletives, gambling, expletives
The version I read had one profane word in the aft ...more
This book was not as great as I expected. It's a classic, which is probably why I didn't like it as much,
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This novel is an amazing accomplishment for a 16 year old author. Written in 1967 it is a grittier, far less romanticized, version of West Side Story. Darry, Soda, and Ponyboy are orphaned brothers and greasers whose lives revolve around the next rumble with the Socs, the well to do gangs from the better side of town. The story is told from Ponyboy's point of view, the youngest of the three brothers and the one the other two brothers are doing everything to elevate above their assigned lot in li
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This wasn’t for me. Thankfully it was short and I listened to it on audible.
As per the author’s intro this was written by a 16 yo in the 60’s. This book sounds like it was written by a 16 yo in the 60s.
It was completely unrealistic and unbelievable. I couldn’t relate. The characters were flat. The plot was boring. Overall it seemed rushed and unpolished. I didn’t care about the characters or what happened to them.
I know this is classic and so many ppl love it but I can’t understand why. Maybe ...more
As per the author’s intro this was written by a 16 yo in the 60’s. This book sounds like it was written by a 16 yo in the 60s.
It was completely unrealistic and unbelievable. I couldn’t relate. The characters were flat. The plot was boring. Overall it seemed rushed and unpolished. I didn’t care about the characters or what happened to them.
I know this is classic and so many ppl love it but I can’t understand why. Maybe ...more
Stay gold!
This is just an amazing book. I'd heard about it for most of my life, but never read it - the fact that Hinton wrote this at 16 is mind blowing. So very well done.
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