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Summary: Rocking In The Real World
Review: The debute novel, Guitar Girl, by Sarra Manning shows several different stages of a teenage girl's life. Molly Montgomery was a girl who was classified as a "loser" in her school. Very few people reconized her. However, this all changed after getting her band to play at a local club. They hired a manager and hit the road to fame. Along the way, Molly found romance, fame, and the truth to the music industry. Everytime Molly discovered something new it just made her more disappointed. Finally, she was tired of being manipulated by her manager. She packed her belongings and headed home. Her popularity with her friends and fans was destroyed. To top it all off, she was being fied for a heafty amount of cash. However, that didnt stop Molly because she had a letter form her hero to keep her living.
I think every young adult should read this novel. It has inspired me to stand up for what I believe and I would hope that it would inspire you also.
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Summary: One of my favorites.
Review: It was an awesome book. Molly became a virtual hero of mine. I fell in love with the characters and couldn’t put the book down because I had to see what happened next. I got attached to it then when I was finished I was all bummed out. The ending was so sad and moving that I cried. Yeah, don’t laugh. Sometimes it was angsty, sometimes it was fluffy, and sometimes it was sad. I wanted it to go on, like a sequel, but in the end I just read it over about nine times. This was a book that was FUN to read!
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Summary: Kind of a Rip off
Review: At first i was intrigued by this book. I spotted the cover and read the inside flap. "Okay," i thought, "It's about a guitar playing girl who's making it big. I play guitar, she plays guitar, i think i can relate. Should be pretty good."
When i started reading it i really enjoyed it, it was well written with believeable characters. The reason it only got four, instead of five stars? It was kind of a rip off of the Sex Pistols' history. I had read ROTTEN by John Lydon (johnny rotten) a few months earlier and the similarities were uncanny. The drug thing with molly's friend (sid vicious,) the fact they had a very possesive manager (malcom), and a stylist that freaked if Molly wasn't wearing the right thing (vivinne). And there are more that i could tell but that would give away the ending to the book. So i find it to be a modern-day girl version of the Sex Pistols that's no where near as hard hitting as the real thing.
I'd recommend this book to pre-teens interested in the music life, and when they hit the age of around 15 or 16 buy them ROTTEN for the full on, real story.
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Summary: Molly Rules!
Review: I borrowed this book from my mate and I have to say that this book is amazing! Read it!
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Summary: O-kay. Hmmmmmmmm...
Review: I don't know if I love or hate this book. I'm 11, and it might be better for a 13-15 year old to read it.Molly gets drunk twice. She has sex. She cusses. Her friend Jane takes off her shirt at a party and is taking pills and constantly having sex. Their manager, Paul, kisses Molly and threatens to kill her. Molly and Dean are always sleeping together. But it all offers a message. Overall, I think it was good, but it would have been better if I'd have waited till I was older.
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Summary: i loved this book!
Review: i liked how molly was in a band, like me, and how she became famous. i thought that this book was very realistic. but the best part: she also has the same name as me!
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Summary: I Love This Book So MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: i loved this book. it helped me realize the problems of having a band and then again how much fun it would be. molly is a teenage girl just trying to get noticed and it works but her manager sucks. she loves a guy and he loves her. its so realistic and fantasy or anything and thats whats so good about it.sarra manning tells it like it goes out there and its truthfull. this book is my fave!
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Summary: It was awsome!
Review: I thought the book was awsome! it showed the downside to stardom. it showed taht real people can become famous also. i definately think that it would make a great movie! and if the author or some producer or WHATEVER i think you should consider the idea of making the abolutley amazing, couldnt put it down, book guitar girl into a movie. oh yeah, it also inspired me to pick up my guitar again. :-)
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: I thought this book was fantastic (obviously). You really get onto the emotional rollercoaster that Molly rides while during her time in The Hormones. It made me laugh, smile, cry, and jump up and down, wishing I could be Molly and just start my own band. This book makes you stop and think that nothing is stupid, and anything is possible.
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Summary: Suprisingly Good!
Review: I'll admit, when I first picked this book up in the barnes and noble in downtown seattle, bored out of my mind!! Waiting for my sister to get out of her Simple Plan concert ...hem, I thought it was a bit teeny-bopper(ish). Yes it started out a little slow, but oh maaaan! Once I dug my fingers into it! It was so far from that! This book had everything... it had that poetic, reverie, optimism quality to it, that I "so dearly" luuuuuurve! Mmmmm... I'm speaking like a brit wannabe. (yummy!) Man, it was perfect... good ending, good middle. Not a slow book once you really dig into. You won't want to put it down, or when you do, you'll be whimpering until you have it in your hot little hands again. I know I did, until it was done, stopping in the middle, well I felt incomplete *somehow*. Not until it was finished was my life complete once more, it's a very thought-provoking book. I could definately relate to Molly, the main charecter. Then there was the bits of romance and sex that took me over the endge... a well written book, so colorful with words and phrases does that to you, or maybe I'm easy... But see... I don't really like a book dedicated entiresly to sex or to drugs or to music or to optomism... I kinda like a mix of everything. "Remember kiddies..."Diversity is the way to go!" haha... I guess I'm what you'd call a wry-optomist (spelled inccorectly for a reason, he hem) Oooooh! Golly! Check out my online journal! Good reads! wry-optomist.diaryland.com/040415_35.html Just copy and paste. Anywhoo... enough about me, now back to the book... to make it a bit interesting I've placed my review in the form of a instant message conversation with a good friend of mine... Here Goes: GingerSnapChild [9:14 PM]: y'know...
GingerSnapChild [9:15 PM]: you remind me of this charecter in a book, who ironically is named dean too...
Nonexistencejunk [9:15 PM]: lol
Nonexistencejunk [9:15 PM]: what book
GingerSnapChild [9:16 PM]: Guitar Girl
GingerSnapChild [9:16 PM]: I believe
Nonexistencejunk [9:17 PM]: have u ever read the book go ask alice
GingerSnapChild [9:17 PM]: it's about this little beknown nothing of a 16 year old, who becomes the lead guitarist, lyricist and singer of this band and falls in and (out) of love with this angsty, overly-dramatic guitar dude named... dean
GingerSnapChild [9:17 PM]: nope
GingerSnapChild [9:17 PM]: you should read guitar girl
Nonexistencejunk [9:17 PM]: haha sounds like me
GingerSnapChild [9:17 PM]: it looks like a chick book, but I think you'll relate
GingerSnapChild [9:17 PM]: yessum
Nonexistencejunk [9:18 PM]: lol oh w/e
GingerSnapChild [9:18 PM]: ahh yes
GingerSnapChild [9:18 PM]: angsty dean
GingerSnapChild [9:18 PM]: hehe
GingerSnapChild [9:21 PM]: guitar girl is about this little no name, nothing england girl who goes on tour for a year... and well..... a whooooooole lotta crap happens... her manager uses her, her fellow bandmates become drug and alcohol addict's, um... this dean charecter is very sauve
GingerSnapChild [9:22 PM]: hopefully you like a good brit novel once in awhile
Nonexistencejunk [9:23 PM]: hmm ill check it out
GingerSnapChild [9:24 PM]: and here she is in the middle of it all, in central london trying to write decent songs... sing audibly, play good guitar riffs, not to mention manage to struggle with the fact that her band is *supposedly* going to start back up the big girl band revelation that was once hot and is coming back
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