Boy's Life

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Summary: This one's a winner!!
Review: Since I am around the age of Cory Mackenson (i'm 14), I have shared the same feelings and liked doing the same activities as he has. I can relate to this book because McCammon captures the essence of a boy's life. I just finished reading this book for an advanced English class for my freshman year at my high school, and I have to say it was one of the most interesting and captivating books I have ever read. McCammon's usage of figurative language and his style of writing is bewildering. In the chapter where Cory hops aboard a frieght train, and meets up with train-hoppers who tour him around a corrupt, backstreet town, is so excrutiatingly in depth and full of detail i could imagine myself as Cory, seeing all of this. This book is a way of telling people to get help if they really need it and to not let unsolved issues hang in the balance. I feel the novel portrays this message very cleary. I have yet to read McCammon's other famous novels.

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Summary: Similar to a 10 hour version of the movie, Stand By Me-good!
Review: This book describes the life of a 12 year old boy in a small town in Alabama in the mid-60's. This was a very enjoyable book. If you were to take the movie, Stand By Me, add more events such that it is more like a 10 hour flick, then make the movie into a book...you have got this novel. A great story of friends, family, society, mystery, and murder with a small, sweet touch of the mystical.