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Summary: Book Review of 8 Plus 1
Review: 8 Plus 1 is a book that contains nine stories with different plots, characters, and themes. The stories are mostly about families breaking up and/or realizing mistakes. With the very descriptive writing and interesting story line, I was easily engaged into the reading. So much imagery was used that the reader can picture the story in their head. This was the best part about the book. Also, the characters were just like the people in the world today. This helped me to learn that no one is perfect, for everyone makes mistakes. The characters gave me important messages about life. Even though many things about the book were good, there were still unclear parts. I did not like how characters were used over and over again. It was as if Robert Cormier could not come up with any other names. The repetition of names made it confusing. This book is overall very interesting. I would recommend 8 Plus 1 for those that enjoy short stories that tell much about life.
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Summary: theme deeper than words
Review: 8 Plus 1 is a collection of 9 stories that are all based on normal everyday people facing real problems. Problems such as divorce, growing up, sacrifice, and sickness. Cormier writes for the juvenile reader but has deeper meaning behind his words. That is one of the thinks I like about his writing best. His characters are down to earth and seem real. Not fake and unreal. This is because he uses the influence of real people. People like himself, his family, and his friends. The general theme in the book is emotion. Cormier tries (and succeeds) in taking emotions that exist only in the occurrence of real experience onto paper and into words. The book, on the other hand, is a very simple read. It uses no complicated vocabulary and the surface ideas are very basic. It involves many of the same families and uses many or those same names. Such as Jerry Renault and Armand Renault both occur in multiple stories together along with their entire family. All in all this book is a good book for people of al ages. There are interesting surface ideas for the younger reader and more sophisticated
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Summary: Rather. . . pointless
Review: 8 plus 1 is a very well known book by Robert Cormier. This book is intended for young adults. Cormiers draws from his past life experiences to come up with his fictional yet realistic characters and plots. For instance he uses the Depression as a setting for many of his stories. The stories include everyday and sometimes sensitive themes for the growing generation, like stereotyping and prejudice issues. Before each story, Cormier uses an introduction to each story to give a general backround. By reading this book, I have gained a stronger sense of life through his character's problems and solutions. These interesting and ever maturing characters with their suspensueful plots kept me constantly intertwined with the story. The following are less desirable qualities about the book. For the fact that Cormier uses the same characters for some of his stories, it makes it a little confusing. Also some other events that he uses for his plot are offensive or perhaps shocking to a more sensitive viewer. Overall, Robert Cormier uses themes that involve regularly occurring problems that previous authors dared not venture.
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Summary: A Review on 8 Plus 1
Review: 8 plus 1 is a very well known book by Robert Cormier. This book is intended for young adults. Cormiers draws from his past life experiences to come up with his fictional yet realistic characters and plots. For instance he uses the Depression as a setting for many of his stories. The stories include everyday and sometimes sensitive themes for the growing generation, like stereotyping and prejudice issues. Before each story, Cormier uses an introduction to each story to give a general backround. By reading this book, I have gained a stronger sense of life through his character's problems and solutions. These interesting and ever maturing characters with their suspensueful plots kept me constantly intertwined with the story. The following are less desirable qualities about the book. For the fact that Cormier uses the same characters for some of his stories, it makes it a little confusing. Also some other events that he uses for his plot are offensive or perhaps shocking to a more sensitive viewer. Overall, Robert Cormier uses themes that involve regularly occurring problems that previous authors dared not venture.
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Summary: Eight+one
Review: 8+1 is different from any other book that I have ever read. This book contains 9 short stories, which for the most part are very interesting. All of these stories to teach you an important lesson about life. Thsee lessons are very well thought out, and they make the stories a lot better. But, this book isn't for everyone. In fact you will only find this book interesting if you are interested in relationship books. But, if you are interseted in books about relationships I would highly recommend this book to you, and I believe you would love it. If you aren't intrested in relationship books I wouldn't read this book because some of the stories might make you bored. This book is very intresting if you are intrested in this sort of thing, but I wouldn't recomed it for everybody.
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Summary: Eight +1
Review: 8+1 was very different from Cormier's other books. While most authors stick to common topics, Cormier goes off the beaten trail and discusses more sensative topics. 8+1 was a collection of short stories that discussed common problems and situations of growing up. In all there are nine stories. I was not bored for a moment in this book. Jumping from topic to topic kept me interested. The book helped me to learn about growing up, and some of the things I will face. A few of the stories are like brick walls and hit you in the face. In a couple of them I realized how alone I would become in the next few years. What hit me the hardest was the emphasis on our parents. It showed that someday we will not need them and how hard it is for them to let us go. The stories give a little of an outline of what is ahead for us teens. I would say that this would be a great book for mature teens.
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Summary: If You Enjoy Realism and Confusion this Book is for You
Review: 8+I equals nine beautiful and well-crafted stories. Cormier is a master of imagery. 8+1 is a book of nine stories interwoven by the theme of family and how life is unfair. As he takes you inside his emotions and fictional situations full of change you learn and grow with the characters. Cormier doesn't judge his characters as he tells you about a prejudice father in relation to his son's protestant girlfriend, a divorcee trying to win back his daughters faith through love not bribes, and a man who leaves his wife and three children for a women he hardly knows.
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Summary: Gave me some of the best hints for my writing career
Review: A friend had reccomended me 'I Am The Cheese' by Robert Cormier. Not able to find that, I sought my needs in this book, '8 Plus 1', which I found in a second-hand book store.This book was a God send. As I plan to be an author someday, the added introductions to each story were great, and I think I found one of the best hints for my writing career, and showed me where to find ideas. Apart from that, the stories are great. Just what teenagers need these days. I highly reccomend this book.
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Summary: Rather. . . pointless
Review: As much as I hate to admit this, 8+1 was so flat and monotonous that I could barely finish it. Cormier's purposeless stories meant nothing to my mind, and as the ALAN Reviews calls him "a sensitive loving writer", I prefer the Cormier that writes the engaging, page-turning thrillers that I've read before. Much rather than this insignifigant collection.
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Summary: Rather. . . pointless
Review: As much as I hate to admit this, 8+1 was so flat and monotonous that I could barely finish it. Cormier's purposeless stories meant nothing to my mind, and as the ALAN Reviews calls him "a sensitive loving writer", I prefer the Cormier that writes the engaging, page-turning thrillers that I've read before. Much rather than this insignifigant collection.
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