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Summary: You Don't Know Me
Review: I have recently read this book, "You Don't Know Me", and found that it was a very good book. It is a book about child abuse, but it is written in a way that is funny. It is about a boy named John and it tells about a few years of hi steenage life. A lot happens in this 260 page book, like when he asks the girl of his dreams out on a date. My favorite part is when Gloria's dad is mad at him and he has to escape from their house. What he finds in this book is that looks may be decieving, and life isn't going to be as easy . It is a very well written book, and I recommend it to anyone 7th grade and above.
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Summary: You don't know me*
Review: I loved this book because it is such a reality check for so many teens and kids saying that every can have a secret and if your secret is as bad as John's secret, then you should tell somebody about it. What his life and what he goes through is such an incredible journey. It was just a really good book that everyone should read. Once you read start to read it you can't put it down.
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Summary: Great..Suspensful...and keeps you on the edge of your seat..
Review: You Dont know me is an extremely great book...it keeps you on the edge of your seat. Its about this fourteen yr. old boy named John who is beaten by the man who is not his father. He does not hit him with his fists but the palm of his hand so not to make a mark so no one knows what is happeining to him. His music teacher though seems to think sumthin is wrong but John doesnt reveal anything so he forgets about it. Also in this book John is like a normal teenager facing love relationships and peer pressure...but he really doesnt have many friends so he stays in his mind. He is isolated from the world and lives inside his head thinking of what he wished would happen instead of what is really happeining.
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Summary: This is the best book I've ever read! It is a must-read!!
Review: To the people reading this: Get off the computer and get this book right now!! It is so worth the money and the ride over to the bookstore. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think. Not only is the story is so GOOD, the author writes it so well. EVERYONE will like this book. If you favor slightly humorous books, you'll love it. If you favor sad books, you'll love it. If you favor mystery books, you'll love it. If you favor horror books, you'll love it. If you favor realistic books, you'll love it. Heck, if you don't favor any of these kinds of books, YOU'LL STILL LOVE IT!! I garuantee that this book will not be a waste of you're time. I finished the book in 1 day, I just couldn't put it down. My parents had to pry the book out of my hands when it was dinner time. Every page is interesting, there is never a dull moment. You always want to know what's going to happen next. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone!!!!!!!
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Summary: Mesmerizing
Review: The only reason I got this book at all was that it had a silver cover. I swear, I would have completely bypassed it at the school library if the binding hadn't jumped out at me. After I saw that I couldn't leave it alone.Reading the book had quite a similar effect on me. I was hooked from the first lines, where John talks about how his room isn't really his room and his homework not really his homework. I enjoyed that because what he says is (sometimes a bit eerily) true. Why eerily? Well, our society as a whole tends to ignore the fact that things aren't always what they seem. We have endless things that are replacements for things that didn't last, and to cover up the fact that they are not the real thing, we give them a different name. For instance, John's mother's boyfriend, who will soon be his stepfather, is never referred to as such. He is "the man who is not my father". This is true, but it is like John sees through the veil of putting a different thing in where an old one was and just giving it a new name. John's own personal society is an oddball one. He entertains himself almost solely by pinpointing all the wrongs in the world and explaining to us, his listeners, what he sees that he (very clearly) knows we don't see. Maybe we didn't know John when we started the book, but we know almost everything about him now. He explains himself more clearly through what he sees around him than I have ever heard anyone explain themselves before. And, remarkably, he mostly reflects on his experiences in the present. There isn't an overwhelming number of flashbacks. In short, YOU DON'T KNOW ME is a think book. You need to be able to concentrate on it, or else you'll get lost. Maybe you will discover the power of this book the same way I did- by opening it and reading something that rejuvenates, inspires, and confuses you all at the same time. I sincerely hope you enjoy this book.
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Summary: I laughed, I cried...
Review: David Klass's "You Don't Know Me" is an amazing novel that I know I will read over and over. I'm 25, but John's high school experience resonated with me, and Klass delivered just the right mix of laugh-out-loud wit and intense pain and sorrow. John's date with Gloria had me weeping with laughter, and the denouement and final chapters made me weep with tension and sadness, and finally revelation...Best book I've read in a while.
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Summary: You Don't Know Me
Review: I have enjoyed many books...i did not enjoy this one. i LOVED IT!! Although, you may have chilling memories from the book- its worth it. John is an amazing character to lead this book through all the twists and turns of this wonderful book. David Klass has an amazing way of writing what you think is an actual tale. ... Througout the book John deals with many troublesome issues...it is very chilling. This book has a wonderful message... Which is always to tell whats going on. John made one mistake throughout this book...you have to read the book to find out!
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Summary: Review?
Review: I read alot of books. I enjoy reading, but this book i more than enjoyed... I loved it, everything about it was done so well. The main character, John, is fantastically well created and his voice completely draws in the reader. The criminal 'man who is not my father, who constantly beats John and scares him from telling the police is one of the nastiest characters I have heard of. Violent (Violet) Hayes, the girl who secretly admires John. The beatiful Glory Hallelujiah who goes out with John but then sees him as a coward after her father attempts to kill him. The kind but unattractive Algebra teacher Mrs. Gabriel (or Mrs.Moonface as John calls her) and the egg-roll theiving Billy Beezer who is the friend who is not a friend are all greatly created characters.Before now i had never read any of David Klass' books, but now that i have read this i hope to read them all. This is a fantastic book!
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Summary: you don't know me
Review: This is probably one of the most brilliant books I have ever found myself reading. I've read reviews complaining that it's strange, confusing, and nonsensical, and although I'd have to agree I must say that I enjoy those aspects of the book.
The narrator of the book is fourteen-year-old boy named John. His family consists of a tired mother, a father who "named me after a toilet and never stuck around to explain why," a dog, and a severely abusive almost-stepfather. He has a few friends at school, all of whom don't know about "the man who is not my father," and he lives almost entirely inside his own head.
Despite the darkness of John's reality, the book is screamingly funny at times. John has an obsession with things which are not what they seem- the apple tree that grows no apples, only gray leaves, the school which is torturous rather than educational- and spends a lot of time cataloguing them. He also enjoys mentally responding to people when they talk to him, which gets him into trouble at times.
Probably the only thing that I dislike about the book is that, at times, John uses his rather sardonic sense of humor to discuss serious things like his mother's sadness and her boyfriend's abuse. The combination of comedy and tragedy can get a little grating.
Besides that, however, it's quite a lovely book. John is an articulate and very intelligent boy who is, despite his absurdist fantasy life, highly realistic. I'm thirteen, you see, so I really ought to know.
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Summary: You Don't Know Me
Review: This is the BEST book I've ever read, and I read a lot, maybe too much. It wasn't the story so much because it's just the same old growing up bull. What I liked was the voice, this real voice that gets in your head so that you do Know this kid. Also the way he talks about his life and after awhile your so into this book, this kids life, this kids head that it's real to you. That's great to be really into a story and after you read it all you're like effected by it. I can really say this book changed my life. I wish this guy would write another story like this because this one was great!
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