I Know What You Did Last Summer

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Summary: Summertime
Review: I've read several Lois Duncan books and "I Know What You Did Last Summer" is by far the most surprising and suspenseful of them all. I have once watched the movie "I Know What You Did Last Summer" a while back and remember it to be hardly interesting. The book version however, was much more appealing to the mind than the movie was. The book has the same basic as the movie did with the same four main characters, Julie, Helen, Ray and Barry. It starts out the same with a car accident with a stranger in the beginning that comes back to haunt them the next summer, with threats and later into more killings and suspense than the movie had to offer. The entire story leaves you hanging on the tip of your chair from suspense at its finest. The ending was different from what I had originally expected and I'm sure other readers of this book feel the same. I recommend all mystery/horror and Lois Duncan readers to read this book if they have the time and interest in this type of book or are a fan of Lois Duncan's workings. I rate this book with 5 stars because of my high level of interest and concern throughout the entire book.

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Summary: Read the Book.
Review: I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER is a story about a group of four high school students who are involved in a hit and run accident which ends up killing a young boy. Speeding down the road late at night after hours of partying, the group strikes a young boy on his bicycle. Instead of stopping to help, the group drives to the nearest phone and makes an anonymous phone call to the police to report the accident. The group makes a pact not to tell what happened. The event causes the breakdown of fellowship between the four friends and they go their separate ways. About a year later, one of the girls receives an anonymous note that reads "I Know What You Did Last Summer." Horrified, she gets in touch with the other members of the pact and the chase is on. One thing leads to another and before they know it, they're trying to outsmart a killer.

If you've seen the movie, don't be expecting any graphic violence here or a man with a hook. Instead, this story revolves itself around lessons of honesty, revenge, and the dangers of living a lie. The characters are realistic and easy to relate to. Girls will probably enjoy this book much more than guys because of the romantic elements involved, but it has enough who-dunnit to appeal to males, too.

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Summary: Hey I K now What You Did Last Summer
Review: I chose this book because I like Mystery books. In this book the main characters are Julie,Barry, Ray ,and Helen.These four kids I just disccribed were riding in a car after drinking ,and smoking pot late last summer night. They did not see him pull out in front of them so they accidently hit the boy on the bike. They did not want to go back for help,because if he died they would go to jail for life,and they are only in high school or collage. Now a year later they get in a envelope with a blank sheet of paper saying I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER! They wonna find out who is stalking them .I guss you will have to raed the rest of the story your self. This is a great book,READ IT!

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Summary: An Amazing Thriller
Review: The amazing thriller, "I Know What You Did Last Summer" by Lois Duncan is a great book for teenagers. This mystery book is action packed with events that will surprise you.
Written in 1973, this book portrays the life of four teenagers, Ray, Barry, Helen, and Julie, who one night when driving home from a party, unexpectedly hit a young boy on the road. Thinking they could get a way with it, they called the ambulance, but did not tell them their name. Now, a year later, someone is stalking them; someone knows what they did last summer.
The characters are portrayed very nicely within the story. Some of the characters may seem a certain way in the beginning of the story, but by the end of the story, the character may turn a totally different direction.
It takes place within many places in the town. The most remarkable things happen at the University campus or at Four Seasons Apartments. Watch these four high-school kids struggle through the events that take place.
Lois Duncan's writing style really adds to the book. She describes the scenery and the characters as if you are there too. When reading this book, I can picture the characters and exactly what they are doing.
While reading this book, I was flipping the pages with anticipation as to what was going to happen next, and I think you will too. Many of you may have seen the movie, but do not be fooled, the book is nothing like the movie.
Now you know what they did last summer. Are you strong enough to read the book?

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Summary: A suspenseful mystery
Review: The author of I Know What You Did Last Summer is Lois Duncan. This book is a very suspenseful mystery story about four teenagers. The main characters in the book are Julie, Helen, Barry, and Ray. Some of the major events in I Know What You Did Last Summer are when Julie gets a note about something that she and three of her friends did last summer, Helen gets a picture of a boy on his bicycle, and Ray gets an article that was cut out of the paper about the accident. Then, Barry gets shot by a mysterious person, Helen almost gets killed, and Julie almost dies.
I absolutely LOVE this book. It is so suspenseful and mysterious, and I like suspenseful things. It was especially suspenseful when someone said that they were going to get Julie, Helen, Ray, and Barry because of what they did. This book starts off interesting and exciting. I think it does because it was very mysterious. It was mysterious because someone that the four friends did not know about what, or who, was coming after them and sending things to them. I feel like I am right there in the book with the characters. This is most likely the most suspenseful that I have read in my whole life.
I think the theme in this book is "Count on your friends to help you." I think so because Barry and Julie think that there is no point in living and that this is the end for them. Then, amazingly, their friends Helen and Ray help them get through their stage. If you are a person who likes mysterious things in life, you should definitely read I Know What You Did Last Summer.

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Summary: The Novel is better than the film version...
Review: I first read this novel in 9th grade back in 1994. As I was reading this novel, I was getting into the story and I feel as though I'm with the chraracters. It gave me chills and excitement as I anxiously turn the pages and find out what's going to happen -- personally, Lois Duncan is a genius and a true inspiration for young adult readers. Now that I'm 21, looking back, I would still consider it one of my best novels I've ever read in American Literature. What disappointed me about this novel was that when the 1998 film version was released in theaters I was so excited to see it, when I finally got the chance to see it, it wasn't what I had expected. They changed the whole story around setting the place in the 90's, also the characters personas as well as the whole concept of the story as to who was killed and how the crime was solved, etc. I should have known that the producers of SCREAM would mess this up -- it just so happens that the movie was released a year after SCREAM. And to me, the movie version of this novel seemed like a pre-SCREAM -- a pre-sequel before SCREAM 2 came out. It's very pathetic, and the worst of all is that they attempted to make a sequel "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer", that is so Wes Craven and that is so SCREAM-ish...I'm sure Lois Duncan is upset by this. If not, then one of her readers are.

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Summary: I Know What You Did Last Summer
Review: I know what you
Did last summer

I know what you did last summer is a book with many different types of action and mystery. The book is about a girl named Jamie that wants to get accepted into a college called St. Thomas. She gets into the college. The first day she is their she meets 4 people. Right away she feels welcome by these people because they are so nice. Jamie and her friends decide to go out to eat. But they realize that the closest restaurant is 10 miles away. They have to go straight through this huge forest. Jamie was driving and she saw this blood dripping down her windshield. She waited a little at realized that the blood spelt "I know what you did last summer". She really didn't get why it said that so she kept driving and didn't say anything. That was a mistake. Many more times this happened like on the shower mirror, She gets letters and she thinks it's from a friend and she opens it and it says, " I know what you did last summer". This book is a great thriller; you never want to put it down. Will they find who or what is doing this?

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Summary: A book that will make you want to lock the doors
Review: This book, I must say, is one great detailed horrer-thriller. Four friends, all driving in a car when they suddenly hit a young boy. Knowing they would be arrested, they leave the boy lying there and report the incident to the police anonomously. They were shakened up at the beginning, but at the same time, they felt that no one knew besides them. They were wrong. And that witness wants revenge.
One great quote that jumps off this book is,"I'll close my eyes, and when I open them I will wake up. It will be gone-the paper will be gone-it will never have been. So she closed her eyes, and when she opened them again the paper was still there in her hand with the short sentence printed on it-'I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER.' "
Another quote that makes you feel the intensity of the book is, "There was no time to feel the pain, no time to consider the consequences as she thrust her head and shoulders through the narrow opening. And then, because it was the only thing left to do, she wiggled forward through the frame of the of the window and let herself fall."
My favorite part of the book probably is the beginning where Julie finds the note and has a flashback of what she did. I recommend this book for anyone looking for a good scare.

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Summary: A Good Old Fashioned Thriller
Review: Here is a thriller with no sex or gore. Just a tale of 4 teenagers that accidently kill a boy through a hit and run accident. Afterwards, they are emotionally torn by living with the "secret." About a year later they start receiving strange things starting with a card that says "I Know What You Did Last Summer." This causes them to relive the horror and regret of what they had done and maybe think about telling the police.

The tension really starts to build after one of the teens get shot. You get close to the end you wonder how it will wrap up but it does.

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Summary: Stink Stank Stunk
Review: It was as bad as The Grinch Stole Xmas movie, and I dunno anybody who liked that.