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Summary: Started out a skeptic, ended up a devoted fan
Review: When I first heard that one of my favorite horror/sci-fi authors was going mainstream I was hugely dissappointed. Why depart from the medium that made you a success? I picked up BOYS LIFE prepared to be let down. From the very start I was hooked. This book is a classic. It reads somewhat like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Though the place I grew up in is nothing like Zephyr many aspects of this story are universal to boys and probably girls also. It's filled with many wonderful and colorful characters. I love the way Cory sets the reader up in the beginning to believe whatever parts of the story are true or have been embellished. It captures the joys and dramas and magic that make up a 12 year olds world. READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: One of those books you wish would never end!
Review: I picked this book up at a garage sale about three months ago, and it sat on my bookshelf for most of that time. When I finally picked it up three days ago I literally couldn't put it down! No book as ever mesmerized me like "Boy's Life". Regardless of your age or sex this is a must read!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Other reviews have told the plot, so, simply said: Boy's Life captures the ups and downs, the highs and lows, and all the small minutae that makes up young boyhood better than any other book I've ever read. Throw in a suspenseful murder mystery and you have the makings of an excellent read. McCammon's way with words and the ease with which he conjures up vivid, concrete images in the reader's head is amazing. Boy's Life is easily the best book I've read in years.
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Summary: The best book I have ever read
Review: Words cannot begin to describe the elation that I felt while reading this book. McCammon has captured the wonder of boyhood perfectly while managing to unravel a great mystery. Although I enjoyed the mystery aspect of the book, the real power of the story lies in its depiction of boyhood. It is uncanny how easy the book is to realte to. Everything is here, the magical bike, bullys, everything I remembered from my own childhood. The magic in this book is in how the child narrator views his world. Wonderful, wonderful book. Definitely worth the time it takes to read. Be sure to read this.
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Summary: Must for young and old
Review: I was born in the same year as the Author, 1950. boys life appealed as much to me as it was for my 10 year old son when I read part of it too him. He loved it so much he actually read the rest himself and attributed his love for reading partly to this book. The book grabs you from the start with a murder. From there you are on an adventure for mind and spirit as seen through a boys eyes. This excerpt from the introduction is a sample of the wonderful writing in the book: "You know, we all start knowing magic. We are all born with whirlwinds, forest fires and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to the birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to act responsible. Told to act out age. Told to grow up for, Gods sake. And do you know why we are told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew, made them ashamed and sad of what they'd allowed to whither in themselves." This book is completly out of Mcgammon's usual genre (normally more a dean Coontz style), but it is his best writing.
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Summary: The best book i ever read!!!!!
Review: Boy's Life is a very good book and is probably McCammon's best book!Although it has bad languge,it has a great story and i think anyone who reads it will agree.Corey is a great character and i thought it was very sad when Davy Ray dies.Oops!Wasn't supposed to tell you that!Well anyway, Boy's Life is a great book!
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Summary: Book review by Richard Smith
Review: Boy's Life by Robert McCammon is a beautifully writen book. The adventures Corey and his comrades have bring back the giddiness of youth to readers of all ages. The novel also has a heart felt side to it. Corey must help his father overcome the misery of the man at the bottom of Saxon's Lake. Whether Corey is hanging out with his friends or playing the role of detective the story is garaunteed to keep the reader intersted and on the edge of their seat.
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Summary: My Personal Favorite
Review: I read this book after a teacher's recomendation. I wasn't expecting much, but this book was amazing. As a 12 year old boy, I could really relate to the characters and lived how they acted. The book's plot wasn't about murder, as the back implies, but about boyhood. I highly recomend this book.
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Summary: Realistic Childhood?
Review: Between the Lady's ability to perform random acts of magic, the man at the bottom of Saxon's Lake, and Cory's constant run-ins with trouble, anyone reading this book will be thoroughly entertained. Although this book is mainly surface plot, McCammon will shock the reader every now and then with surprising depth. Boy's Life reminded me of the type of childhood filled with excitement that people dream about, but do not really have. As Cory also faces problems with his parents, his dog, and stage fright, McCammon's Boy's Life becomes more realistic. Perhaps I loved this book because of the fact that it took me back to the days of slumber parties and riding bikes (ordinary ones, not like Cory's Rocket), or maybe I just needed a good reminder of what it is like to really have fun.
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Summary: Before us demons fled...
Review: This must be the definite work about the magic of childhood. Never have I read a book that captured childhood as I remember it (or as it should have been?) so well. A truly beautiful tale about childhood in a small town. As Vernon Thaxter says in the book: "And maybe there wasn't a real plot to it... but the book was about *life*... [it] was sweet and deep and left you wishing for more." This is a good description of Boy's Life. It captured me on the first page, with this little poem about "checking coke bottle bottoms, to see how far was far", and then again in the prologue, when he talks about how we all get the magic educated right out of our souls when we grow up. From there on, it never let me up for air until I was finished. As in Vernon Thaxter's book, the murder story seemed kind of pasted on, to give the book a plot, when in fact it felt more like a stroll through the memories of our own childhoods.
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