The Outsiders

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Summary: i'd like to give it...100 stars. ReAD MY REvIEW!
Review: alright ppl, 14 yr old chick just read the book, kinda for a school project. just cried too, coz the ending is just...can not give it away. ^_~ This book is just DA BOMB it's actually the first book that i was actually interested in it when i read the first page. It just pulls u into it. unlike all the other books i read (9even good ones). which BORE ME to DEATH at the beginning. ANYWAYS, it's about friendship and like...brotherly love..family...life. Ponyboy and his bro sodapop(dontcha love the names? ) and darry in a gang against another gang. It has action in but it really teaches u about life, what's wrong, what's right. OvER ALL, u need to read this book. u have no cLUE WHAT YOUR MISSING IF U HAdN"T!

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Summary: A great story about the "real world"
Review: This is a great story about what it's like to live on the other side of the tracks. Ponyboy is a very smart, enthusiastic character, who searches for a safe place in a difficult world. Ponyboy lives in the poor section of town where kids his age are called greasers. In the richer section of town lives the Socs(socials) who are upper class kids and the greaser's rivals. In the constant struggle between the Socs and Greasers, tradgedy strikes. While being attacked at night by the Socs, Johnny, Ponyboys close friend, kills a soc in defense. They then run away from everything in their life to the country where look for a clean start...

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Summary: I'm getting in to it!
Review: it's ok im really getting in to it! it's about the poor side of town (greasers) and the rich side (soc). it's just about how young men are in this gang but it's not a gang it's a group / family kind of thing.It's a good book you should read it!

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Summary: two heroic kids comited a murder and now they are hiding
Review: IT was a kid who like to writre stories, but he did not tell anyone because he thaught he's brotheres would get mad. One day pony boy and johnny were in the park and a socs made fun of them, they got mad at the socs and faught them. i forgot who stapped him but one of the greesers stapped. they ran away so they would not get in trouble by the cops.

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Summary: it is a very good story and its about a town that has gangs.
Review: This story is about a town that has two gangs.The socs and the greasers.One gang is in one side of the town and the other gang is on the other side of town.The socs always jump the greasers when one of the greasers are walking by themself.One day one of the greasers named Johnny was walking to the greasers hang out place and the socs drove by him jumped out of the car and started to beat up little Johnny.Johnny still has a 6-inch gash.Thats just how the socs are.

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Summary: WHY DOES EVERYBODY THINK THIS BOOK IS SO GREAT???
Review: This book was required reading for my 12 year old. I cannot fathom why teachers require kids to read this book. It glorifies gang life and makes heros of criminals! My son told me what a great guy Dally was because he took the wrap for a friend who broke some windows and helped that he Pony Boy and Johnny when they were in such trouble. What this really means is, he covered and abetted the actions of a vandal and two boys involved in the death of another! This makes Dally a good guy? The author tries to make us identify and sympathize with these boys who are thrust into unhappy circumstances and react by becoming hoods, thieves, liars and killers! We're supposed to empathize and champion these boys? Yes, they had their gentle spots and even showed great bravery at the fire, but that cannot negate that our children are being made to like and admire these criminals! I don't want my son to identify with these kids! I don't want him associating with kids like these and I CERTAINLY don't want him to look up to or emmulate kids like this! What IS the point of this book? That everybody feels pain? Do we really have to glorify crime and deception and expose our kids to this ugliness to teach them that? Why aren't they reading Tom Sawyer and A Tale of Two Cities? Why aren't they being taught to look up to good honest, decent living people? No wonder our teens are in such trouble these days. We're teaching them to think that's the way it has to be!

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Summary: This is my all time favorite book.
Review: Iwas in 5th grade the first time I read The Outsiders and at 22 it is still my favorite. It took me one day to finish it and I turned it over and read it all over again. It was the first book that ever made me cry. It helped me realize the power of the written word. I am thrilled that it appears on so many school reading list.

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Summary: One of the few books I read that I actually liked!
Review: This book is sweet. I didn't give it 5 stars because the only thing that could be 5 stars wouldn't be appropriate for kids.

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Summary: A troubled life
Review: This book was about a 14 year old kid who's parents died in a car accident. Ponyboy was his name. He had 2 other brothers. Darrel and Sodapop. He relied on his brothers and the gang to support him. Darry was the oldest the soda and pony. Pony usually satyed out of trouble, excpet the one night Pony and anoter gang member got jumped by the "soc's" A soc are the rich kids on another side of town. Pony and his gang were nothing like that. They were greasers the poor kids on another side of town. Johnny, the other gang member Pony was with, killed a soc. And that all led up to a series of other auful events in the book.

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Summary: It is a very good book and it will keep you reading.
Review: I think it is a very good book that will keep you reading till the end.This book is about a greaser who copes with everday life. It also let's you experance life as a teen in the 50's. If you are a person who likes books that one minute they are fighting and next it goes to everday life, this is the book for you.