The Lords of Discipline

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Summary: What can one say about a book like this.
Review: I was one of those violated boys that never made it. I left the Academy humiliated and ashamed. This book has hepled me provide some closure to that part of my life. Please read it.

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Summary: Hands down, his best book
Review: An absolutely phenomenal book. I cannot recommend this book with any greater urgency. Again, Conroy weaves a marvelous story, and he supercharges this book with race and class undertones. You hate Charleston for its deepseeded history of slavery, yet you fall in love with the city and its magnetic charm. You hate The Citadel for perpetuating hate, yet you fall in love with the young men who enter its hallowed walls. The tension between good and bad, the blurring of right and wrong, make this one of the greatest books written in the last 20 years. If you read one Pat Conroy book, forget about the Prince of Tides. Read the Lords of Discipline.

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Summary: My absolute favorite book--read again and again and again
Review: The obligations of friendship, the willingness to trust despite overwhelming evidence of betrayal, and the sheer necessity of unconditional love. Pat Conroy reaches into our pasts, describing perfectly the first experiences of pure emotion: hatred, pride, fear, love.

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Summary: Soulfully hearthwarming story of friendship!
Review: Back in college days, I've got a copy of this extra-ordinary masterpiece that has even more solidified my relationship with my circle of friends. As a kid, it was my dream to become a military man---a dream which never became a reality. This book gave me a chance what there is in the academy.

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Summary: A Gripping Tale Portaying an Honorable Instittion
Review: As a sister of a graduate of The Citadel, reading this book made me just want to cry in thinking what he might have gone through. I know now why after graduating there is so much pride in each one of those cadets knowing that they made it. This book made you experience what it was like to be there and to feel the pride. Yes, the school did have its problems, but I think that is what kept them all together-loyalty, honor, and pride. I even think that Pat Conroy still feels that pride!! Read it!!

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Summary: Passionate poetry in prose format!
Review: Conroy captures the essence of what becoming a man is by illustrating what it isn't. Why any right-thinking person would want to attend the Citadel or Virginia Military Institute after reading this book is beyond me.

Conroy's style is hynotically poetic. His readers hunger for just one more chapter at the end of each one.

This is a terrific book that should be on the reading list of every American high school!

Kudos to Conroy!

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Summary: phenomenal
Review: An absolutely amazing book. Despite the cheesy "Danielle Steel" cover that sort of kept me away at first, I read it from a suggestion by a friend. The book is absolutely amazing. Incredibly written and you'd be hard pressed to find a better story.

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Summary: You are not born a Southerner, you learn to be a Southerner
Review: Pat Conroy was an American Southerner while so many others in the South were and remained British Aristocratic Southerners. With the graduation of Afraican Americans and now the first female cadet it is time for Conroy to revist The Citadel and The Citadel to revist Conroy. The Citadel is now what he dreamed it should be and what it once was. The bias of so many Southerners has died inside these walls where it was never born. It was the bias of many high class born Southerners that changed The Citadel from a place of honor to the place of horror it was when Conroy was there. Conroy should return to this great campus and The Citadel should now acknowledge that this great American author was right. Honor is fraternity, loyalty, respect, and pride. Honor is not represented by a fist of violent behavior and hazing that ruled the campus for so long. I never fail to visit the Citadel when I am in Charleston and am now proud again of what it once was and is now once again. Go back Pat, and take another look.

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Summary: This Book Changed the Way I Looked at Life!
Review: "I wear the ring - I wear the ring and I return often to the city of Charleston, South Carolina to study the history of my becoming a man." From the first sentence, I was hooked. Pat Conroy writes so romantically and eloquently. This one covers all the bases-romance, love, brotherhood, coming-of-age, family. No matter what you usually read, READ THIS BOOK!!! Read it front to back, preface and all.

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Summary: Excellent, excellent, excellent
Review: No other words to describe it. What an awesome book!!!!!!!!!! It deserves 10 stars.