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Summary: Read this in Seventh grade .......Sitll the BEST
Review: For all of you readers out there, Boy's Life is a superb novel that catches your attention and leaves you wanting to read it over and over again!!! It completely engulfs your mind with stories of hilarity and stories of great suspense. It pockets your imagination and takes it to a place where you remember what being a kid was REALLY all about. Each character is portrayed in such a unique way...Cory Mackonson is the main character that has trial and error in his life but manages to learn to deal with it all. You follow him through his journey of a childhood and learn that Robert McCammon is truely an excellent author.
Though I would love to give you complete detail on everything and give you the MILLIONS of reasons why I loved it, I just am too lazy....besides....READ FOR YOURSELF AND FIND OUT! ...
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Summary: Absolute magic!
Review: I purchased this title because, though I'm loathe to admit it publicly, I love horror! I've never read McCammon before and, based on reviews of his work, expected a good scare. I was therefore surprised to realize that this story isn't at all horrific. It is a simply wonderful tale of childhood and all the magic it holds. It transported me back to the elderly lady in my home town that all the kids (including me!) were convinced was a witch. And the seances we took as real. The stories we spun around cemetaries and famous relatives and those we labeled as crazy. All the things that, armed with our magical outlook, we spun into fantastic tales. In his preface, McCammon tells us that the magic is taught out of us. There's truth to that certainly, but as the book illustrates and I can attest to, magic is lived out of us. Faced with tragic realities, little and huge and everything in between, we unfortunately lose our magic over the years. This wonderful book took me back to that wonderful time when everyday occurences were turned into magic just because of our youth and innocence.
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Summary: I remember those days!
Review: Whilst reading this superb novel the one thought that kept cropping up in my head was "I sure remember those days". Long summer days playing with friends,the brutality that only children can impart one one another coupled with the sheer innocence of the young.
McCammon evokes these memories so well and in such a well crafted style that I was hooked from the outset.An over-used cliche in the book word is " a pageturner" but Boys Life is such a book if ever there was one.
Buckle up for an emotional ride but one which will leave you grining from cheek-to-cheek as you devour the last page.Enjoy!
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Summary: REMEMBERING THE MEMORIES OF BEING A KID
Review: For a person who wants reunite with their childhood memories, Boy's Life written by Robert McCammon is a novel the reader will enjoy reading. It will make the reader laugh, cry, and love all the characters in the book and the relationship between the boy and his father. The book will remind the reader of riding a bike, looking for adventure, and finding it in every place and person they see. This intricate book is fascinating from the first page to the last.
Boy's Life will bring the magic of youth's curiosity and enthusiasm back to the reader. Reading this book will make the reader yearn for the days of their youth. Robert McCammon's story will make the reader see their youth for what it really was, a dreamlike-utopian time of childhood that we would all like to live in forever. In Boy's Life, it shows the reader the sliver of time from childhood to adulthood, between the wide-open wonder of innocence and the tightened responsibility of being an adult. This story will have the adult reader looking for motivation and inspiration for the rest of their life.
Cory Mackenson, the main character of this book, is a young boy growing up in a small quiet town in Zephyr, Alabama during the mid-1960's. At the introduction of this book there is a tragic event that takes place. Cory and his father are riding in the milk truck delivering milk to the citizens of Zephyr when a brown car jumped out of the forest in front of the milk trunk and went plunging into the bottom of the well known Saxon's Lake. Saxon's Lake was known as the lake without a bottom. Cory's dad stopped the truck and jumped right into the lake trying to save the driver of the car from drowning. When his father reached the car as it endlessly sank he tried to help the man out. The man was beaten with a knotted copper wire around his neck so tight it ripped the flesh. The man's right wrist was handcuffed to the steering wheel leaving Cory's father no opportunity but to let him die even though he didn't want to. The biggest mystery of the story was "who was the man in the car?" and "who would killed him?" Cory's father hadn't seen the man before, which was odd since he knew the majority of the small towns citizens. The only thing that would help his father identify the man was something he noticed on the man's arm when he was trying to save him. It was a tattoo that he hadn't seen before, nor had anybody heard of it. The tattoo contained a skull with wings crept back from the bony temples.
This event starts the beginning of Cory's adventurous mystery. During Cory's amateur detective work he receives a bike from The Lady, a mystical character created by McCammon. The Lady plays a key role in helping Cory and his father solve the troublesome mystery that has affected their lives. The bike is a significant factor because Cory believes it has a magical "eye." An "eye" that will guide and protect him from the troubles he will encounter during his journeys to reveal the identity of the killer.
Cory shows courage, strength and persistence though his constant devotion to his father and to solving the mystery that affects their lives. He shows signs of courage in numerous ways. One of the signs of his courage is when he is trying to figure out the identity of the killer and the links to the killing. Cory never shows signs of giving up even at times where it seems that his sense of suspicion isn't leading to anything substantial, this displays his persistence. He makes his strength evident when he continues to follow the case even after he losses a close friend.
Boy's Life is a book for a person who wants reunite with their childhood memories of riding their bike, looking for adventure, and finding it in every place and person they see. Boy's Life is a quick read that will fascinate the reader from the first page to the last.
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Summary: Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Review: Don't let the title fool you. This is no magazine for Ranger-Rick-wannabes. Boy's Life is for anybody who wants to be entertained by a little bit of everything: slapstick comedy, witty satire, who-dunnit mystery, the supernatural, and the magic of childhood, blended with a touch of sob story (yes, a dog dies...), a dash of history (the equal rights movement vs. the KKK)... and there's even a couple of monsters. I laughed, I cried, then I laughed some more.
This is one of my all-time favorite books: I've read it at least 3 times and I just bought my 5th copy because I keep loaning it out (I'm buying this one to read to my 9-year-old daughter). God Bless Robert McCammon for providing us with this good, clean romp through the South in the 50s.
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Summary: READ IT
Review: Like many others I stumbled upon this book and have reread three times. It is right up there with one of my all time favorites--To Kill A Mockingbird.
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Summary: my favorite book to now
Review: i am sorry to hear that mr mccannon is no longer writing horror as i rank boys life at the very top of my list. no matter what he writes ill give it a try. thanks for alot of good reads.
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Summary: Simply tremendous! All age groups will enjoy.
Review: When I finished reading this book I literally broke down into tears--that is the effect that this book had on me. Why? It brought back countless powerful memories of childhood friends, little league baseball, teachers, riding one's bike through town, a dog licking the face, bullies, racism, death, a loving stay-at-home mom, and an imperfect but respected, admired, and loved dad. I laughed at many scenes and choked back tears at others, but always was I entertained and amazed at McCammon's ability to write about life through the eyes of a twelve year old boy. This book will stay in my mind as long as I live and will be a benchmark by which I judge my enjoyment of future books that I read.
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Summary: A wonderful coming of age tale...with a few twists and turns
Review: This is a spectacular book and has been on my favorites shelf for quite some time. This book is a coming of age tale and reminds me of stand by me (you know, the movie adpted from one of Stephen King's short stories). The character development is simply amazing and the reader truly gets to know the characters. This book has a wonderous combiniation of humor, sadness,and edge-of-your-seat-suspense. Read it, you will not regret it.
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Summary: One of my favorites
Review: This book will grab you and not let go.....it is totally captivating. You will be reminded of when you were young and asociate with many of the actions and thoughts of the young boy. This is a book for adults and teenagers as well. Great story telling! It is a shame, if what I hear is true that the author has retired from writing, since reading this book was one of the most pleasurable reading experiences I have ever had.
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