A Separate Peace

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Summary: Not what you think
Review: A Separate Peace should not be classified as a book that would teach you anything about war. While it does take place during the war, it shows no factual information about the book. The story is basically a struggle between inner conflict and also conflict in friendship. It deals with guilt, as Gene feels awful about the fact he broke Finny's leg. It has a lot of irony in that Finny dies in the end from bone marrow in his blood. Overall it is not a bad book, but in my opinion it taught me nothing about war. It taught me more about friendship and life at private school.

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Summary: A Seperate Peace
Review: I had to read this book for my junior year's English class. I thought it was a very interesting story and unique in the way of the in dept friendship of Gene and Finny. It takes place at an all boys' school in which they stay all year. However the 90 % of the book is a flashback remembering back to the time when him and Finny attended the school. The main plot of the story is that Finny is athletic and Gene is smart. However, Gene gets jealous and purposely injures Finny when they are performing dangerous stunts. But know body but himself (Gene) is aware of that fact, and throughout the story it shows his struggle with himself and his friendship. Overall I think this book is a great read and recommend it to anyone looking for a medium length book. I gave this book four stars because I feel their are some things that I would have liked to have been settled however it is wonderful book.

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Summary: Hmmmmmm........
Review: Personally, i enjoyed the book. I wouldn't but it but i would get it at a public library. I think it shows how some people are mistaken as someone there not. Gene thinks finny is out to get him , but actually, he's not. The book gives a lot of examples of life lessons. It shows that growing up isn't as easy as most people thought and looking back you may regret some of the decisions you made when you were young. The conflict between Finny and Gene will keep you intrested but guestioning about your relationships with others.

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Summary: This is a good book
Review: I had to read this book for my 11th grade English class. When I was assigned the book I was not too excited. But then when I finally started to read the book I got really into it. This book is one of the best books that I have read in a while. I thought that this book was very easy and fun to read. The way that the story moves from scene to scene in the beginning is a good way to start out a good story. The main characters, Gene and Finny, are roommates with each other. Finny organizes a club during their summer session. And the rest of the book revolves around what happened that summer. If you want to read a good book, I suggest that you read this book "A separate peace", by John Knowles.

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Summary: An Acceptable Novel
Review: A Separate Peace, I felt, was an acceptable novel. The plot at times was drawn out and tedious but overall I felt the novel had momentum. I liked the character development between Phineus and Gene and I liked the way they interacted. Gene's feelings at times were dull and overemotional. But I guess with the confusing nature of the war, WWI, and his inner conflict with himself he really had no choice. I felt very angry with Gene after he pushed... I don't want to ruin it. I felt the book was a little long in spots but it was an overall okay read.

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Summary: BoRiNg
Review: i dont think that this was a good book at all. i thought it was boring and i didnt understand it that well! of what i read anywayz! i thought that gene and phineas were crazy and i jus didnt like how things were put!

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Summary: uhh
Review: This book was not very good. I do not understand why Gene would try and turn a great friendship into some kind of war. Finny never knew that Gene even felt that way. Finny did not feel that way towards Gene at all. Even when Gene confessed to hurting Finny on purpose because of jealousy, Finny refused to believe. I do not like this book because it does not symbolize what a real friendship should be like. I understand that everyone was going through hard times because of the war, but friends should stay close during hard times. They should not turn against each other. This was a bad thing that Gene could do to his best friend.

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Summary: Mixed thoughts
Review: I both enjoyed and disliked this story for many reasons. I enjoyed the fact that it had all different values to it. It showed a world in war and how it affects its citizens. It showed how it affects people fighting in the war and how people helped out at home. Beyond this thou it had a very good lesson about envy. In this story Gene was very envious of Gene and it led him to think and do some very crazy things. Reading this book will make u realize a lot about how easy it is to envy some body and how ridiculous it may can be when you do. This story teaches u to kind of step back and look at things from another point of view I thought. I didn't enjoy though how the characters were shown and talked about. Some characters I thought went underdeveloped and they focused too much on things that did not matter.

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Summary: ASP school reading
Review: I had just read the book A Separate Peace by John Knowles. This book had no action of any kind what so ever. If you are a patient reade, then you will enjoy the book. However, if you need continuous, ongoing, exciting situations, then you will not like the book. The book is extremely dull and boring. You need to really go in the middle of the book to find some exciting situations. The love, violence, and excitement are not found easily and are not found in a bold manner. Even though I am a kid that doesn't enjoy to read, I feel that anyone in their teen years will not feel this a strong book. However, there are always some people that enjoy all different types of books.

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Summary: WHY?!?!
Review: I recently had to read Of A Separate Peace, i found this book to be dull and uniteresting. This book was written about the 40's, which has no relation to me in this time. I generally like reading about war, but this book was horrible. The character werevery boring to read about, they way hey portrayed the characters just made the story worse. I wish i would have never read this book, and i want the time i spent reading this book back! Hopefully i will never have to read another book written by John Knowles, although i dont think any book can get as bad as this.