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This was such an enticing book, I found I just didn't want to put it down. To think this was written by a teenager too makes it even more believable. It is funny, sad, dramatic and thought provoking, I wish I had read this when I was younger.
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This is a wonderful little book. A quick read, but a powerful one. Protagonist Ponyboy Curtis and his brothers and friends are trapped in a world with little hope, "greasers" who are hated by the "Socs." Not a very complicated plot, but an incredibly rich drawing of the characters and the world they find themselves trapped in.
It's amazing to me that this book was written in 1967. This kind of realistic fiction about kids' lives just wasn't happening in those days the way it is now. And the autho ...more
It's amazing to me that this book was written in 1967. This kind of realistic fiction about kids' lives just wasn't happening in those days the way it is now. And the autho ...more
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