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Summary: Suspense/Nostalgia from McCammon
Review: Cory Mackenson (doppelganger to author Robert McCammon) is about to experience the summer of his life. Up until now, life in small town Zephyr, Alabama, has been nothing much to get excited about. But one day, while Cory accompanies his father on his milkman route, a car flies across the road in front of them and splashes into Saxon's Lake. Cory's father Tom dives in the lake to attempt a rescue and comes face to face with a naked man handcuffed to the steering wheel garrotted with copper wire. Obviously unsavable, Tom swims back to the surface, but that image will haunt him for many months to come. And this is only the beginning of Boy's Life, a suspenseful fictional memoir that succeeds in capturing the magic of childhood. While his father suffers the effect of haunting dreams, Cory is introduced to the many quirky characters that make up many small towns. The Lady is the local clairvoyant who seems to know what Tom's problem is, Vernon Thaxter is the son of a reclusive millionaire and so is allowed to run around town naked with impunity, and Nemo Corliss is the new kid--a boy with a talent for baseball so natural that it truly hurts the reader to see that his mother won't let the fragile boy play. These and other people (and creatures like Lucifer the monkey and the "creature from the lost world") co-exist with Cory in a town shaken up by murder. But this storyline is almost secondary to Cory's discoveries about himself (and his need to be a writer) and the world around him, including a bicycle that has a mind of its own, and seeing his first real naked woman (not found in the pages of National Geographic). McCammon, as usual, writes like gangbusters and though Boy's Life is on the long side, those almost six hundred pages fly through the reader's fingers much like Cory's bicycle, Rocket. (If you like Boy's Life, be sure to also read Summer of Night by Dan Simmons, another horror/nostalgia piece.)
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Summary: Best Book, Ever.
Review: Out of the thousands of books I've read over the years nothing compares to the joys and sadness this book can envoke. I buy this for every new friend I make. Read it, today!
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Summary: The best book I ever read.
Review: I had read Robert McCammon's other books and was very pleased with them, especially the rarely praised They Thirst. But this book just blew me away. I related to this book in more ways than I can count. All the characters and events feel real. And although I've never been to Alabama this book made me feel like I had been. I've bought this book several times and lent it out only to never see it again. Everyone I have recommended this book to loved it. Take the time to buy this book and read it. But read it slowly because you will want more when its over. A really great book.
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Summary: His Best
Review: Usually McCammon's books are pretty lame, but this one actually has some nice writing in it and develops a consistent and likable narrator remembering his youth. There is plenty of nostalgia for the old days in this one and until the end when the Nazi-plot thickens this is a nice book. I would say that if you loved King's IT and wished to heck there were another book like that with likable kids and all the nostalgia for the old days of Silver Flyers and honesty in small towns etc... you will probably enjoy reading this through while you wait for someone else to write another book like IT.
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Summary: In my top five.......EVER written
Review: This book is magic. The characters, situations, writing, etc. are all pure magic. This book is so wonderful I cried numerous times while reading it, (not something I do often.) I lent it to my Father to read and he cried his eyes out. I just picked it up again today to reread and I thought I had to post a review to tell everyone how amazing it is. The description at the top and the glowing reviews on this site don't even begin to compare with how great this book is. I hope I am not overly hyping this book because when that happens often people get let down but honestly, I don't see how it is possible to be let down from this book. This is not like any of McCammon's previous work, so don't expect a thriller or supernatural horror story but do expect a magical wonderful book that will make you feel young again and appreciate life and the little things in life. Zephyr is truly a place where magic lives.
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Summary: Boring and unrealistic
Review: This is the most boring book I had the misfortune to read in high school. I'm an avid reader, but this bored me to tears. It had your typical "boy coming of age" plotline, including the death of the boy's dog. It was unrealistic and ignored many of the serious issues and ways of life of the 1960s.
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Summary: Should be required reading before high school graduation!
Review: OK, folks...how any of you have recieved a reading assignment from your high school English teacher more than 20 years after graduation?!? That's why I read this book...and I sure am glad of it. Mr. McCammon has written what should be a new American classic. Boy's Life has a little of everything...suspense, mystery, murder, mystics, racial issues, Nazi war criminals, danger. Wow. I read this book in about 2 days. Do yourself and your friends a favor...buy this book and read it...and then pass it on. I did.
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Summary: AMAZING!!!
Review: This is my favorite book. I have read it every summer since I was 14 (I am 27 now) and it keeps amazing me. McCammon's style of writing makes you feel like you are right there, and you grow very emotionally attached to the characters. I have bought this book as a gift many times and have lent out my well-read copy more than once. I don't think words can express how I feel about this book. I just "got it" from the very first sentance until the last. Cory Mackenson is such a universal character that everyone can identify with. I would love to see this adapted into a movie, although I am not sure a screenplay could capture the magic of this book.
I have read a few of McCammon's other books, and while being very well-written, no other book has touched me like "Boy's Life." Please read this book!!!!
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Summary: Absolutely Terrific!!
Review: This book had everything and the language is so beautiful it made me cry! No book review could ever do it justice, you just HAVE to experience it. I laughed, I cried, I tried to solve the mystery and I hated to see it end. Read and soak up the language, you won't be sorry!!
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Summary: Great Storyteller
Review: I've read so many reviews of this book that I don't think I can add much. But, something that has been overlooked in the reviews is Mr. McCammon's ability to tell a story. Mr. McCammon writes so convincingly that the reader is totally willing to suspend disbielief and go along with whatever bizarre, absurd thing that happens to Cory, to the point that it is totally believable that a small town in Alabama would have Nazi war criminals in its midst, that it is possible to have dinosaurs stampede down the street, that a dog can be resurrected. Mr. McCammon makes the unbelievable real. READ THIS BOOK.
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