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Summary: women basketball warriors
Review: On several levels COUNTING COUP is a compelling read, well-written & both dreadfully sad & astonishingly exhilarating. No wonder Coach Mac was bent over most of the time in agony & hoarse from yelling.Larry Colton was in Montana originally to check out the winning boys' high school basketball teams, most members of which were Reservation youths. What he discovered instead was Sharon LaForge. Colton follows a year in the life of her Lady Bulldog team & this basketball warrior in particular...Homecoming Queen Candidate, a young woman inexorably entangled with a rudderless young man, & all the trials & tribulations teenagers, & American Native teenagers in particular, are heir to. Colton's admiration for this athlete, her skill, spirit, tenacity & endurance comes shining through, & you end up rooting for Sharon LaForge even as your level of dread & frustration rises, until you must ask the question: "Exactly what is success?" COUNTING COUP is definitely for anyone interested in basketball, team sports, teenagers under stress & life on the Rez as seen through "white eyes."
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Summary: Disappointed at best
Review: I work with Native American students in Montana, and found this book to be a wasted opportunity. I can see why it is so difficult to establish trusting relationships with my Native American patients and students. Trust and friendship are important gifts in rural and Native American communities; it is my impression that both were used, abused and wasted on the author. He befriended this group of people and was honest only in the fact that he was writing a book about basketball, I don't see anywhere that he adhered to any of the basic principles of privacy or the "right to self-determination" before publishing "HIS" story.
I will not discourage people from reading this book, however they must keep in mind that the author did not focus on what makes a winning team, or many of the positive aspects of the people involved. He focused on individuals and why these individuals were destine to fail. Further more, he spends far to much time supporting negative racial attitudes that many of us struggle daily to overcome.
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Summary: I was there
Review: I was a sophomore at Hardin High School when Sharon LaForge was the star of our girls' basketball team. This book opened her world to me, a world that was closed to me as a younger white girl. I experienced the agony of that season as a member of the Pep Band, but now I can have a small understanding of the agony of the team itself. Mr. Colton has written a very honest account of life on and near the Crow Indian Reservation. He clearly described things that many in my hometown would rather ignore. I highly recommend this book to anyone curious about Crow Indian culture or life in small town.
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Summary: Educational
Review: Counting Coup helped me understand the Native American way of life. From a cultural standpoint, it was very educational. I was, however, saddened by the book and it's reference to the hopelessness many of the Indians feel in pursuing college and a career after high school.
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Summary: Excelent
Review: Having to read this book for summer reading assignment for school, I was skeptical at first. But I soon found that I had nothing to worry. This is an excellent book that takes a look basket but also life on the reservation. I would recommend this book to a basketball fan and even people who are not.
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Summary: Good life learning experiance
Review: It is amazing the way life can go sometimes and how tougher it can make us by putting us trough all different kinds of challenges, temptations...
The book Counting Coup trough its interesting subject has that as the main idea and that is the reason why I like the book so much. It is easy to read, yet with a powerful and instructive massage. Not only I had fun while reading the book but I also came to learn and understand some important things about life.
This book shows how no matter how down in life we can get, we should always try not to waste time on blaming what already happened but to look ahead of us. Just like the main character of the book Sharon does. She has gone trough a lot in her life and she has to learn the hard way. Those hard times are like an obstacle in her life but she doesn't allow it to hinder her. She conquers that obstacle. She preserves. She moves on. That is something majority of people is not capable of doing.
There is a lot more hidden in this book then just an interesting story about the Indian girl who wants to play basketball. This book could give a person the strength and inspiration to overcome the down times to make it in life.
Counting Coup shows how sometimes we just have to roll with the punches, suffer our losses and hope for the best. We have to learn to deal with unpleasant things and let them go, eventually moving on. That is what this book has tought me and I hope whoever reads it will get to learn the same.
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Summary: My review of this book
Review: This book is a good book in the fact that it shows the struggles of a young teenager growing up in a difficult environment. She goes through some tough times as she struggles to coupe with the environment she has grown up around. The aurhtor has written this book to make you feel as if you were seeing things as Sharon see's them. The aurthor has done well with going into detail about the story and how involved each character gets and why. It seems to leave you in suspense throughout the story to see if Sharon will do as the others do or come out on top and show everyone that she can succeed. All in all this book has some very good points with it to show how people can go through different hardships and still come out on top because of their outlook on life; regardless of their upbringing.
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Summary: counting love
Review: This book really makes me think about things that really make people change or try to change to go on in life. There is so many reasons why Sharon tried to change her ways but she attained she new she was the best girl, or person in town. Sharon shared so many thoughts and truth about her family throughout the book. Strong feelings, thounghts, anger,and specially synpathy to others and herself.I think the characters in this book were not real and true to themselves, well I guess real life situations were but they were some selfish people. Sharon has tried her best to on in life the best possible way she could even though reality does hurt sometimes. This book for me has really open my eyes to some ways that I know is gonna help me later in life. Honestly..
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Summary: Counting Coup
Review: Counting Coup was a well narrrated, interesting story that i really enjoyed reading. The story was about a young girl and her teammates rollercoaster ride to the State Finals. What interesting the most about this book thought was that it wasnt just about basketball itself. The author Larry Colton went into the this little town as a complete stranger in search of a story. But in return he got back a whole lot more. He gained the towns trust and not only the town, but the coach's, team's, and family's trust as well. They took him into there house and made him part of their family. After gaining their trust he was able to create a more detailed story getting some inside scoup with in the families lives in the half White, half Indian community. The main character, Sharon was a very strong young girl who lived a rough life. She went through a lot of bad things and made some porr choices at times. But she battled through life and made it, she survived.
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Summary: Counting coup reveiw
Review: Counting coup a book of life. This was a book that I feel should be recommeded to all high school students. Just for the simple fact that it was about low class society, and hope to make it out. When I mean making it out. I mean getting a better life than what they a living. Also when I read the book it gave me a sense of hope and i'm already in college. So basically I feel if a person is just about to give on life. I would tell that person to they need to read counting coup. Next the author does a great on following the teenager. also I really respect him for putting so much time into his work
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