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Summary: An interesting Novel that has a good moral.
Review: My review of John Knowles', A Seperate Peace, is a fairly favorable one. I rate this book as one of the best I have ever read. This book was good because it deals with many events and situtations that many kids in high school have and will encounter. I myself have gotten in fights with my best friends and have made up with them. This book hits many of lifes occurences. I liked how Knowles involved the war in this story. The war is a symbol to me of what might happen later in the book, foreshadowing maybe. There were many symbols besides the war, such as: The tree Finny and Gene jumped off of, Leper Lepellier's "crackup", and the two rivers. I also enjoyed Brinker's role in this novel. It was a minor one, but an important one. He was the class leader and representative and felt partly responsible for Leper's little episode. He also felt the need to investigate the Finny/Gene incident. Overall, this book was enjoyable. On a scale of 1-5 I give it a 4.
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Summary: personally I did not enjoy this book
Review: A Seperate Peace is supposed to be a story about friendship, betrayal, and conflict. The Story is written with a sense of irony and sadness in the tone. I personally found the book depressing and pointless. The story really shows a dark side of human nature that most people don't like to see or even acknowledge. The story is about boys in a private New England school at the time of World War 2. Gene, the protagonist seems life-like and well-defined, but in a way that makes hima whining idiot. He is impossible to sympathize with, and the only thing that keeps the other characters from being the same is that they have no sense of realism at all. Conflict develops in many different times, and different levels throughout the novel. The conflicts are mostly well-defined, but since the story has no plot, it is hard to see their connection or point. I found the authors tone harsh and cold. The author probably could have defined the other characters better. The book also presents many conflicting views that are darn near impossible to figure out and relate to the story. If you do read this book (and for most students it is mandatory), I certainly hope that you enjoy it and get a lot out of it.
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Summary: A child trying to decide who his real enemy is if it exists!
Review: It is an action book.You see every action and sympathy with the characters and even feel hatred towards them.The relationship between Finny and Gene is what the author describes.The setting he chose and all other details are superb.It personally is the best book I have EVER read.If you are emotional and love emotional books take a look at this review.If you love happy endings let me tell you something don't read this book.However if you want to see your tears runing thru your cheeks with such a fiction book you know what you have to do.It is very effecting and I infact think everybody should read it...Well i will be looking forward for your opinions.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: A seperate peace is a great book. It's a story about one man's struggle for attention and what he goes through to get it. This book is a great example of the harm envy can do.Ashkan Yekrangi
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Summary: delves deep into the teenage mind
Review: This may not be the greatest book that anyone will ever read, but among ones that deal with a troubled mind there is no better. I plainly think that the dark and evil thoughts Gene had are not uncommon, because we all have these thoughts at some point in our lives but tend to suppress them. Well done Knowles.
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Summary: Worst book I ever read (and that's saying something)
Review: I still can't believe I managed to slump through this travesty of the world of literature. There was nothing redeeming whatsoever about this book. The plot is terribly implausible (a branch, strong enough to hold up two adolescent boys, can be "jounced"?) It made my head hurt. The wispy, long-winded language alienates the reader, making it even more impossible to read. By the end, I wanted to slug all the characters, the author, and maybe my English teacher for making me read it! If I could give this "book" negative stars, I would!
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Summary: WOW!!!! I KNOW THAT GUY!!
Review: I first read this book my freshman year in an advanced placement class. When I saw it I had apsolutely no intention of reading it. Every night we had reading assignments, and every night I wouldn't even think about reading it. Finally when I did want to get F's on the quizes any more I started to read. I did read the entire book then, but I started to see the books potential. I picked it up again my senoir year because my AP teacher made us do literary annylisise. It was wonderful. The book worked on so many levels. It tide all the characters emotions and relationships toghther beautifully. I know not a lot of people liked this book, but I could really relate to it. I read it at a time in my life when every page was a page out of my life. I think it truely captures the immage of the changes, and trials that all teenagers must under go. I recomend this book to anyone who has ever loved a friend, and has had that love be the down fall of the friendship.
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Summary: My favorite book of all-time.
Review: John Knowles has done all of us who wish to read great literature, a great service. This book was entertaining while at the same time conveying the deepest of lessons. As a new middle school teacher I can appreciate the tremendous job that Knowles did in capturing the contents of the hearts and minds of two complex youths.
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Summary: Well this is one Freebie I wish I would have passed by
Review: In my sophomores honors english class we had just looked over the AP book list, and were told to start thinking about a book to select and read. Our teacher had given us a short description of almost all of them just skipping fifteen or twenty. So one of the following weekends I was visiting our towns wonderful farmers market, and there was a stand set up by the local "friends of the library" offering free books. So loving books and free things in general I started looking through the books and found A Separate Peace, recognizing the title off the list, I took it home and started reading. Dragging myself through this uninteresting book, with characters I couldn't make myself sympathize with or like at all proved more difficult than I assume writing this terrible book was. I guess I'll admit it was interesting thinking about living at Devon... but come on for a book that was during the WW2 period, it really had very little of the impact of war in there, I think. Gene is a self obsessed idiot who if I knew him I'd shoot him and it would defiantly be justifiable homicide!! Please don't get offend if you absolutely loved this book, maybe I missed the point... or could it be my book had the interesting parts ripped out?? I guess I should have taken the clue that my teacher hadn't highlighted this book as special, or even described it at all!! Oh one more thing that baffles me is how this book even made the AP list!!
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Summary: Really tells you to never judge a book by it's cover!
Review: When I had this book placed on my desk I thought, "Man we never read anything good in here", boy did I learn my lesson. Overall the book was good. There was a small part that bored me, which is why the book did not receive 5 stars from me. The climax definetly came in chapter 11, which if you want to find out what happened you must read the book! The friendship of Gene and Phineas, and the problems that occur really can relate you to the life of teens today. Many forms of jealousy and regret are performed in everyday life, which is a big point in this book, which I feel should be commended! Read the book, the first couple of chapters may make you want to stop, or maybe those couple in between, but don't because for the good parts it's worth it! Knowles, great job!
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