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Summary: This book is outstanding
Review: After reading Rule of the Bone it made me think about alot of things first of all that this is an outstanding book and that I could not put it down. I read much of it over a period of two days. Second of all Russell Banks did a wonderful job writing this. They way he wrote for all the characters was excellent because he always put in great detail and the dialogue was perfect. It is great what he did, to write for somany different characters on such a large scale from a Rastafarian to a eight grade drop out pot head. It is really unbelievable. You will love this book if you are in to real life adventure stories. When you read this book it wont be like youre reading at all but watching a movie in your head. Banks is able to paint such a good picture in your head that you get lost in bones world. This is a great book and you should read it.
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Summary: An out-of-ordinary piece of literature
Review: Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks was an invigorating novel. I commend Banks for being able to compose a narrative involving a youth addicted to drugs with an obsession for being a rebel. this was an adolecent who many of us pittied, but a small handful of us probably emulated him. I was incredibly interested in not only the main character (Bone), but I was dazzled by the creativity used by the author in portraying characters such as Froggy. He created a young girl who was sold to a man by the name of Buster Brown. I was blown away by the compassion that Bone showed to this helpless girl and also the liking that he took to I-Man.
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Summary: The Rule...
Review: This book is a coming of age story of a young dilinquint. He really is not a bad kid but his addiction to drugs and his lack of ruthlessness. The book makes you wonder how a kid can end up the way he is, but I believe he is a product of his enviornment. If you like a really strange and twisting plot then I think you will love Rule.
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Summary: Review of the Bone
Review: This story is an epic tale of a young adult coming to age in a bad home. With bad family life he leaves home and goes into the world not purposly to find himself but you'll be surprised what he finds inside of him. Mystical situations will amaze you and test your emotional side that you never thought you had. Multiple characters that have little surprises within their colorful attributes, will turn this book into a real plot twister that will not only keep you interested it will keep you in the book, not letting you put it down. If you like a book of someone coming to age and finding their true self this is the one for you. Even if you don't like that sort of thing this book as a great plot with tremendous characters.
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Summary: Rule of the Bone...an Excellent choice!
Review: I wasnt much of a reader, before my boyfriend convinced me to start reading Rule of the Bone. After reading the first 3 chapters, I had some interest since many of the topics related to my personal life, but I wasnt yet hooked. He told me again and agian, that it will get better, and to keep reading. So I did, and he was right. Once I hit the middle of the book, I was amazed that I'd thought about stopping reading. It completely facinated me, the way it was written, and the content. Bone is an excellent character to read about if your a teen, still discovering "I-Self" (As I am). I reccomend this book to anyone, and especially to the 14-17 crowd! I promiss it's worth the 10 bucks! You'll remember it forever! The Bone Rules!!!!
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I brilliant coming of age novel with characters so lovable you'll be thinking about them long after finishing.
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Summary: brillant, couldn't put it dow
Review: this was an amazing book to read i couldn't put it down. reading about the bone travelling to jarmica was brilant. i couldm't beleive i read it in a week it was one of the best books that i have read.
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Summary: Almost right on
Review: There are some things about RULE OF THE BONE that are so close to home that they should pay rent. The voice of 'Bone' is for the most part, dead on, and an achievement itself. This book is almost a bit of masterwork, but the wizard is visible behind the curtain, if you look closely. 400 pages of action/inaction are betrayed by the numb ending, and the almost fable-like plot twists are visible from dozens of pages away. Yes, this is a better novel than many, a great bit of insight into characters that don't normally get a chance to breathe on the page, but there is something that seems manufactured here as well. I know I'm holding this one up to a higher sense of achievement, but to someone who has a good feeling for teen angst, he betrays it with his contrived story at times. Better than most, to be sure.
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Summary: Awesome.
Review: This is the most involving novel I have read in years. In my opinion, Banks is an old school author like Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Twain, etc. Its' not a 'postmodern' book. But, on the other hand, it is more honest about how life is lived now. Banks' eye for detail is precise. I really had a feel for the scene, the characters were real, compelling. It's a classic.
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Summary: Tripped-out Holden Caulfield
Review: This is a bold novel. Banks undertakes to duplicate the voice of an aimless, drugged-out, disaffected youth named Chappie who comes to refer to himself as "The Bone." While the effort could have fallen completely flat, Banks succeeds in creating an authentic character whose voice sounds authentic, and we come to care about him by novel's end.Banks captures the angst of teenage life without sounding preachy, and most important, he never condescends in crafting his main character. Bone is confused and often hostile, but Banks manages to infuse him with humanity. Unlike many novels about adolescents, Banks isn't interested in getting his protagonist to a predefined destination. Bone doesn't clearly understand who he's supposed to be and he's nearly completely free of a conventional sense of morality. The novel turns on Bone's introduction to a homeless girl named Rose and the mystical Jamaican, the "I-Man," who takes Bone under his wing while the two of them share a trailer in the woods. Through Rose, we see Bone's essential humanity emerge as he struggles to provide her an island of safety in a hostile world. Indeed, the world in which Banks' hero dwells is an inhospitable one, and the novelist never shies away from that fact. The feel-good platitudes often tossed around about family life, school, community and the like are shattered by the depiction of Bones' world. Only by personal acts of kindness, Banks seems to say, can a person be redeemed. Banks' picaresque and coming-of-age work invites comparison to "Catcher in the Rye" and to "Huckleberry Finn," as others have noted, but I would add that the sensibility of Charles Dickens also permeates the book. Dickens relentlessly pointed out how dangerous was the world in which children dwell. Banks echoes that concern even as his drugged-out, punk hero bears little resemblance to the waifs of Dickens' work. A fascinating novel by a strong and individual voice in modern American literature.
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