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Summary: AWESOME BOOK FOR A TEEN!!!
Review: THIS BOOK WAS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I'VE READ... MY ALL TIME FAVORITE STORY WAS CALLED, HERO OF THE HOOD... (IT WAS IN THE SECOND BOOK THO.) IT WAS ABOUT A BOY THAT NEVER GAVE UP HOPE EVEN WHEN THINGS GOT REALLY TOUGH...THE BOOK MAKES YOU THINK TWICE ABOUT ALOT OF ORDINARY THINGS.
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Summary: Great book if your a teenager...
Review: Ive read this book and its really great.The way people share their triumphs,their sad time,and other things with other teenagers.If your a teenager and you want to read a good book.Read this one!
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Summary: a valuable lesson
Review: This was a great book. It really makes you look at how easy you have it and how hard that others really do. These stories were written from all over the world by teens who wanted others to learn from their experiences, and i know i've learned alot from them. I know i will continue to read this series and maybe someday write a story of my own.
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Summary: This has been one of the nicest books.
Review: Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul is a really good book. It's nice to hear stories from other people, not just the authors. Well, it was actually one of the best books I've read, I couldn't put it down. It didn't feel like it was that many pages long, it felt so short that I read all three already. They are really worth buying.
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Summary: Chicken Soup-mmm mmm better
Review: Being a teenager, I felt that this book was written just to and for me. But you don't have to be a teen to read this book and thoroughly enjoy and come away inspired. My class wrote a book of Chicken Soup stories called, "For What It's Worth", and each student was given a copy. Our book does vary a lot from the original, which is why I enjoyed reading it so much. We all have a chicken soup story within us, and reading someone elses warms the soul, and calms the hunger within it, with a nice heaping serving of chicken soup. When life looks hard, I pull out my copy, and flip to my favorite stories, or ones that I know will help me through the day. And when I put the book down (which I have to say is hard to do, and I do read more than a few stories although I tell myself I'm not going to), I look at my day brighter and it really changes my life and anyone else's who reads this. I think everyone is ready for a big heaping of this chicken soup not only for the teen soul.
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Summary: *~Life Changing*~
Review: This book can be life changing if you will let it! Reading it, the stories touched my heart and soul! It makes you understand the joys in life! Whether its a small joy or a simple act of kindness. Its a great book for teenagers. Teenagers are confused and this book shows that we are not alone~ Im now a fan of Chicken Soup books and continue to read them!
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Summary: This is a wonderful book.............!
Review: Out of chicken soup for the teenage soul #1, #2, and #3, number one was the best. Laughter, joy, sadness... this book has it all!My favourite story was "Phone Calls"!!
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Summary: touching...
Review: this book is a very touching book. The stories are sweet as well as loveable. you can relate to it in many ways from relationship to family. These stories come from the bottom of their hearts. If you're at heartache pick up this book and read a story, you may even end up in tears. They also include some comic stripes realted to the topic which are really funny and true.
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Summary: Not bad but nothing special. A good waste of time.
Review: When I first heard about this book and went on to read the reviews here, I thought I had finaly found the book I had been looking for. For a while I had wanted to read a good books about teens in the 90's. I had wanted a book that was realistic, explicit, containing much character developement. I had wanted something that portrayed how teen life, High School life, really was in the 90's. This book doesn't quite work for a number of reasons. It's not explicit (No swearing, where's the drugs? Smoking? Alcohol?), the stories, for the most part, aren't very interesting at all (You can hear more interesting things from gossip in my school) and the stories just seem too manufactured(Why do I get a feeling that some of the stories were cut up/butchered to be shorter and nicer?). There are a few stories with good potential, but there's no description, no character developement, why should I care about these people? This book really makes you appreciate an author who can really write and captive you, evoke real, raw emotions. The more I think about it the more I realise that this book, for the most part, provides a false image of how teen life really is these days (Columbine). And where's the multiculturalism in this book? All the names make me think that the characters are probably Christian Anglosaxons, not that I really mind, just something I noticed. I suppose the best books about a certain era are writen very much after the event takes place, unfortunately, that seems to be the case with this topic. Hopefully, one day a real book will come along that will blow this book out of the water. I just can't figure out why this book is so popular. All the fluffy feelings and fabricated stories almost made me want to throw up and/or fall asleep.
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Summary: To the fans: don't send me hate mail for not glorifying this
Review: All right. I feel a little guilty for only giving this book 1 star, but they wouldn't let me give it one and a half, and I don't quite believe it's worth two. I received this book as a gift - it's not really something I would've picked out. Perhaps I shouldn't even write a review for it, but I'm going to do so anyway. I admit, it's a very heartwarming book, and the message is a good one. I suppose it's uplifting, and all in all, it's pretty positive. The real problem I have with this book is that most of the stories (with some exceptions, of course) are a bit contrived. There are a few truly touching ones, and a couple of sincere slice-of-life types, but most seem a little artificial. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but my life doesn't suck enough for me to really connect with most of the stories. They all seem a bit . . . well, I think they seem too manufactured, to tell the truth. There's something a little unsettling about turning heartbreaking experiences into millions of dollars of profits. I know the stories were sent in voluntarily, but still - it all seems so exploitive. I think that's what I really dislike about this book - as I'm reading it, I can't quite shake the insidious thought that this compilation is nothing more than a capitalistic venture.
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