The Outsiders

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Summary: The Outsiders is the best book i ever read!
Review: the outsiders is the only book i was assigned to in school that i actually read! it was great, and it focus's on real-life problems of teens in america today! Ponyboy shows what it's like to be in a "friends" gang and what it's like to lose a friend. The ending of the Book was incredible!

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Summary: WHAT? NO ZERO STAR RATING?
Review: STOP! why are all of you people rating this w/ like 5 stars & stuff? what's the point? this book is totally disgusting to read! the book encourages gangs and violence and killing and dirtyness! it's so disgusting how she (S.E.Hinton) describes everything! you would think it's good to describe things well, but this is too much! i've never wanted to hear that stuff! in fact, i try to avoid it! if a book is this bad, i would always stop it and start a new book. you may be wondering why i read it... aren't u? well, i said i wouldn't read it, but i HAD to it was assigned by my teacher, and to make things worse, he tortured us by forcing us to watch the movie! now, don't get me wrong, the teacher is cool & stuff, but with THAT story... well, nevermind. maybe books like this are why our society is so screwed up! The 'heroes' of the story were killing people! and then they went and hid from everything so they wouldn't get in trouble! i mean, all they had to do was tell the police that it was for self-defence, and they would've let u off easily, but if you came later (w/ out the self-defence excuse(they were too dumb to figure it out 4 themseves)), then the police would give you a much harder punishment. the whole book is scewed up like this. the kids don't use their heads! i mean, some person reading this book could interpret i differently than Ms. Hinton had meant to be interpreted, and they could think, "oh, if this BOOK said it was okay, than it really must be okay!" DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!

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Summary: The symbolics of the Outsiders
Review: THe Outsiders is a good book because it shows the symbols to relate to present day events. it shows that two groups will not always get along and most times end up in a fight. As is happening in Isreal with the Jews and Palastinians. It also shows that everybody has a good side even the bad ones, as Dally saved the kids, and Johnny. When Johnny and Ponyboy went to Windrexvliie it showed that everybody tries to run from there problems. When dally goes and kills himslef shows that all people care about somone. The school shootings can tie in with this because it shows that nobody can get along with everybody. So it is a good book in that it is symbolic of life today and the story is a plot I will never forget the rest of my life.

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Summary: The Outsiders, a review
Review: The book The Outsiders, as I consider it, is a very good book. Ranking, it would be four stars. This book is fascinating because Mrs. Hinston does a good job of explaining the rough life of a "greaser" in the 60's. She also does a good job of explaining, in rich detail, how Ponyboy goes through his troubles.In which they all begin when a small fight begins, and Johnny saves Ponyboy's life by taking another. More and more life ruining events come upon Ponyboy. His brother's is his only unseperable past. THey will stay together and finish, even int he worst of turmoils.

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Summary: a modern classic of a differnet, yet not alien, life
Review: the outsiders is most likely the best book i've ever read. i rank it up with lord of the flies. as a person in a place like ponyboy's neighborhood, i know what it is to be afraid, lost, happy, or hurt. this book shows that no one is alone. we all have someone, somehow. some things are just meant to be, because if they weren't, what would they be?

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Summary: A wondreful combination of realism and drama.
Review: The Outsiders is one of the best books that I have ever read. It is a great book for any age above about 10. It brings detail to gang fights. It also compares different ways of living. Ponyboy, the main character, is a 14-year-old greaser (a gang) who does not like violence, unlike the other greasers. The socs, a rival gang, are extremely wealthy. To the socs, gang fighting is a game; but to the greasers, gang fighting is life. Everyone should read this book.

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Summary: this book was very good
Review: This book was about two groups of gangs. one group was called the greasers(they were poor), and the other group was called the socs(they were rich). I thought the book was really good. After reading the book it makes me want to watch the movie.

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Summary: A must read for all teens
Review: I thought this book was great. Even though it was written more than thirty years ago, it still reaches out to the teens of today. And she did a great job of portraying a 14 year olds life with two older brothers, and the difficulties of being a greaser, in what feels like a world of socs.

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Summary: My favourite book of all time
Review: I have read this book at least forty times in the last seventeen years. Every time that I read this book, I appreciate something new - either something in the way that the author describes characters, situations or people's emotions, or the way that this book is impossible to put down. I am now 28, and still several parts of the book (nearly all of it) bring tears of happiness, sadness, anger or elation. Written from a viewpoint of hard and experienced innocence, this book is a study in the goodness in everyone, and everyone's propensity to hope. Very view books or movies have had an impact even close to this one. Read it, buy it, read it again and again and give it to everyone you know to read too.

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Summary: This is the most awesome book that I have read in my life!
Review: I am a girl from a small town in TN. I am the kind of person that does not normally get into a book but, "The Outsiders" caught my eye and I just had to read it. It starts off sorta slow, then it gets really deep. I just don't know how I would describe it. In some ways it is to weird cause I can relate to Ponyboy, Soda, and Darry in alot of ways. And I really got into it after I realized that, I could not put it down, I absolutely had to read it. I think the book is unique. I suggest this book to all ages that are able to comprehend the facts of life. I think that this will be one of my favorite books for the rest of my life.