A Separate Peace

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Summary: A Seperate Piece
Review: A Seperate Piece is a great book, based on two friends during a time where friendships were tough. The book is during WWII. This book shows the positive and negative sides about a friendship. It allows you to see how bets friends can still have flaws. This shows the jealousy and envy of one friend, to the point where he accidentely kills his best friend. All in all I liked the way John Knowles shows both the good and bad side of friendships.

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Summary: A Separate Peace
Review: I read A Separate Peace for my english class. The book started off interesting but as it continued it seemed to get less interesting. There were some good parts in the book such as when Gene goes to vist Leper at his home in Vermont after his discharge. Also when Gene has his accident with Finny. I would not recommend this book for people to read unless they enjoy books that seem to go on forever.

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Summary: A Separate Peace Of Life
Review: This book is a classic in american literature and institutes the literary elements that are essential to strong story telling and enhancing the idea that the author wants to get across to the reader.During the story the characters have entered thoughts and feelings throughout the main plot and the story has been set up as being during a war and the story actually has nothing to do with the war and at the Devon school and the boys that lived there and set out to do good in their lives.

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Summary: Good...But I've Read Better
Review: "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles was a very well written novel telling the story of a young man's journey at a boarding school during World War II. I enjoyed this book very much, but the author, John Knowles, could have cut out some of the useless parts earlier in the book. This book truly captures the values and demises of friendships, especially during a time like wartime. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed "Catcher in the Rye" and/or has a very deep-seeded relationship with a best friend. I disagree with one reviewer that called this a "book for boys." I believe it's easy to relate this to anyone's life, especially those with strong feelings toward a best friend. Overall, this book is very good, but not the best I've ever read. I think books like "Catcher in the Rye" are much better than this book.

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Summary: Alrght book
Review: This book didn't interest me very well. The book put me to sleep too many times to count. Although most books do. Irony in this book was semi-interesting. The Characters were hardly developed, in my opinion. The jock and the brains as friends may funny, but it would never happen. The Death of Finny was far expected from the beginning of the book. If he doesn't have his sports to keep him busy he doesn't have anything to do that he is very good at. Sports were his prodigal purpose in life. The grim mood of the book at the beginning was a pure giveaway of the book's entire mood and foreshadowed most of the book.

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Summary: a separate peace
Review: I had to read this book in my 11th grade English class. I thought that the book was a little on the boring side. Other then that it was an ok. You had the all around sports guy, the little sacred guy and the bully. The book goes back to the Devon school, which is a private school. Gene tells about all the things that happen and there is some great symbolism. the symbolism they use is in my thoughts the best part of the whole book.

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Summary: A Review of A Separate Peace By LMAO!
Review: After Reading A Separate Peace by John Knowles, I felt that the book was a very good read. However, I thought that Gene and Finny had the weridest realtionship ever. It seemed that Gene liked Finny, but deep down inside his soul he wanted to hurt him real bad. Leper was one of the oddest individuals in the story, to his letter to Gene, to him hallucinating. The book did give comic relief when they had the snowball fight, and wrestled in the snow with the barrels of cider. Overall the book was pretty interesting, it was average, but it was interesting. Read the book, if you want.

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Summary: um... OK then
Review: OK, I know this book was supposed to be about a boy and his inner struggle with himself about his friend Finny but I found it so boring. Reading this book was like watching a soap opera. There were separate stories going on in one story. Everything was jumbled together into one really boring book. I've read many books and only one other that I've read bored me as much as this one did, that book being The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway. That book has about as much plot and action as A Separate Peace. A man goes back to his favorite school, man has a flash back about a particularly bad summer, man leaves school. But all in all I guess the book does get a rating of "2" due to all the imagery and the way the book was written. And I guess, because the book does deserve some credit, that it was an OK book to read if you have an extra 2 hours on your hands.

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Summary: A Seperate Peace
Review: I absolutely enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone. A Separate Peace is a book that takes you back to a time when you perhaps were jealous of a certain friend or even reminds you of that friend you are still envious of. This book takes place in Devon, where Gene is jealous of his best friend Phineas. Phineas seems to be the one kid in your school that is popular and most athletic. Phinny could also be described as always looking for something fun to do. Gene however is a kid that is into his studying. The story is told through Gene's eyes and takes place during World War II. This book shows the realities all of us can face daily.

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Summary: What's a title?
Review: I thought this book was interesting. I liked the way that it used flashbacks in order to tell the story. I am also glad that it placed the story while a real war was going on since there was a private war going on between two of the characters. It is a good book for anyone who has ever been envious of a friend.