Counting Coup : A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn

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Summary: counting coup
Review: i think that this book was good because it depicted the way native-american life was in a way but it also showed and he stated that, not all native-americans live like this. I thought about it time and time again that this was the way they lived but its all sterotypical, i try not to be like that. The way I see it is its just like any other city in america, there is ups and downs and there are the occasional bad seeds, the only thing you can do about it is keep living life the you want. In respons to the book I thought it was good, but I thought it was a little dry because it just kept dragging on and on , game after game.The only parts of the book that kept me interested was the stuff that wasn't about basketball, the real life stuff, that's what i liked reading about because that is the greatest game of all.

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Summary: Counting Coup
Review: i found counting coup as a very well written and decriptive book. Larry Colton is not some great novelist but he writes a very good book. His book is a very true to life story that is pretty much just a great story of his time well spent on an indian reservation. He makes very good assumptions after spending time on the res. After reading this book it will make you become very interested in not only the love that is behind a game but also the time and effort it takes to do something that yo love very well and stick with it.

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Summary: Playing Sports in Real Life
Review: I found the book to be very interesting. I felt that the story of Sharon captured the readers attention. I felt this way because the ending had a little bit of tension and caused me to ask myself questions about the author. In a way I was emotionally involved in the story. The sports part of the book was interestingly mixed with the real life situations that faced Sharon. I liked this book very much and fell that Larry Colton did a great job.

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Summary: I enjoyed the story
Review: I really enjoyed the story. AT first i had no idea that the story was going to turn out the way it did. I really liked the book towards the end. I was not too happy with dome of Sharon's decisions but then again, it's about sharon's life. The story changes a lot from chapter to chapter but in every chapter it only got better.
Overall, the book was great. I think that the whole purpose behind this story was to let people see that just because you are in high school and you are a popular athlete or just popular for some reasdon or the other does not make you a perfect person/student. At school on the outside you cann be this person then at home with your real life, you are completely a different person.
Looks and reputations can be decieving. Just because someone is popular does not mean that that person is all ok. She can be in the worst situations ever but you would never know because that person is popular.

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Summary: Counting Coup Review
Review: Counting Coup is a book primarily about life on and off the basketball court, while also acknowledging the Indian culture and observing how they deal with every day life. Larry Colton wrote this book very vividly, so the story line is running through your mind like a movie.
Sharon LaForge, the main character, manages to break cycles and overcome the alcoholism which runs through her family. Her gift is basketball which has somewhat taught her lessons of life.

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Summary: Basketball and Indians
Review: In general I liked this book. If it hadn't been assigned reading, I never would have picked it up but I'm glad I did. For anyone who isn't a huge fan of basketball this is a perfect book to read. It does have alot of the games in it, but that's what Sharon La Forge is all about and to not have these events in it would have made for a total failure of a book. It's amazing to be able to get a glimpse of what life on a reservation is really like. We take advantage of the lifestyles we live and this book is refreshing and justifyably humbling.

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Summary: Hope among the hopeless
Review: In most modern entertainment mediums we expect a happy ending. For a the main character to rise to the occasion, defeat all obstacles, and be completely victorious. Well the book doesn't do that. It tells a story of a girl, who did end up triumphing, but managed to not self destruct. It lets you know that regardless of circumstances, or situations, people can still manage to make a better life for themeleves.

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Summary: it could have been better
Review: the book explained from his point of view. I know that many indians have problems with abuse and alcoholism but this info was already known. It just talked on how a person learned to be a real mother and how to grow up. The only exciting points of the book were the game when the author really got into it.

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Summary: Love of a great book
Review: I really like this book, because for me I found out more about some of the Native American culture. I did not like the basketball that was in the book, but I really did like how the book followed Sharon and her family and friends lives. I recomend anyone who is into reading a well planned book to read this.

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Summary: Loved the Book!
Review: This was a good, relaxing read. Having grown up relatively close to the Crow Reservation, and being a non-Indian married to an Indian, I found that Mr. Colton did an excellent job of stating the relative prejudices of each race matter of factly, and without taking sides, using the points of view to develop the complicated background for this story. Unfortunately, Mr. Colton did not answer the question why Sharon LaForge was doomed to fail in a quest to leave the reservation and get a 4 year basketball scholarship -- but I think it is because there is no answer.