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Summary: A Great Book
Review: I absolutely LOVED this book. A great page turner. This book shouldn't be taken lightly. It does jump a lot from scence to scene but I never thought that for one minute it was confusing. I actually understood the book quite well. Robert Cromier keeps it interesting through the whole book. I really don't wanna say much because it will give away most of the thrill of the book. So I suggest you just go out an read it. You won't be dissapointed when you do.
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Summary: Too Confusing
Review: I was constantly confused during the whole novel. I didn't understand what was real, if the kid was making some of the stuff up or not. At the end of the novel I was absolutely speechless and had no clue what I had read.
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Summary: A well written book, very confusing though
Review: I am a 14 year old, and got this assigned for summer reading. I am not at all stupid, I had a high A average in English last year, but I just didn't understand the book. The characters and emotions were written incredibly brilliantly, but Cormier went back in fourth too much, and I didn't understand it. It is two stories, woven together horribly. Maybe I just can not think because it is summer, but I would recommend it anyways.... It is a thinker!
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Summary: Probably the Best Young Adult Novel There Is
Review: Kids: When you're over Harry Potter and Narnia, and you want a challenging book that will make your head spin, read this book. It's about a young adolescent named Adam on his way to see his father in another town. He's riding his bike alll the way there. There is something strange going on from the beginning, yet, we're not sure what. In addition to this story, we're also seeing Adam being interviewed by a psychiatrist, supposedly after this bike ride has occurred. It is an extremely well-done book, and many kids find it to be a favorite and want to read it over again as soon as they finish it. Some get a little frustrated by it because they want very simple stories that require no thinking. If you are like this, don't read this book--yet. But come back to it when you are ready. (It's sort of like "The Sixth Sense" because it has this shocker ending. Very Cool.)Parents/Adults: If you're not familiar with this book, read it. It can be enjoyable and challenging for readers of any age. But, I suggest it for readers who are not easily frustrated and who seek challenging books. 7th grade and up.
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Summary: I Am the Cheese review
Review: Robert Cormier's I Am the Cheese is a story about the literal and figurative journey of 14-year-old Adam Farmer to discover his true identity. I Am the Cheese is complicated in structure and plot; the reader must infer the truth behind Adam's journey to discover his past as well as his bike trip to Rutterburg, Vermont. As his journey (and the book) progress, Adam (and the reader) try to piece together the fragments of a traumatic past that Adam cannot recall and a present he does not understand. The story is told in way that parallels Adam's mind in that the past and present are woven together through multiple story lines, with some details being true and other parts being fantasy. This makes the text complicated and confusing. Adding to the complexity of the text is Cormier's use of metaphores and foreshadowing and the fact that little bits of reality are sometimes mingled with fantasy. Also, the story line is hard to follow because the blanks in Adam's memory create corresponding gaps in the story for the reader. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a complicated and mysterious plot.
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Summary: Robert Cromier: I am the cheese
Review: Adam Farmer was a normal boy in his early years, as he grew he built up friendships with other people and his family. Then one day he started to suspect something that his family had been hiding that had the potential to destroy and end the Farmer's lives.
Adam is Paul Delmonte, his father, Antonio Delmonte had found information that had the potential to bury a large organisation of corrupt government officials, he finds enough at first to chop a branch off but in doing so he aggravates the rest of the tree. Which leads to a tragic climax in the novel that is genius and a mental state of the fathers boy that protects him from the trauma of the reality that his father was a victim of a head hunt by a corrupt government.
The aftermath of this incident left Adam separated from all loved ones in a mental hospital where he retreats to a sub-reality where the only connection between reality and his mental reality are his fears. In the sub reality he rides a bike on a journey from Monument, Massachsetts to Rutterburg, Vermont with a package for his father. In reality the Bike ride is in his mind as he rides in circles in the mental hospital. The fears that linked the real world to the not real world constantly troubling his mind, although intelligent whenever the boy finds the truth out of the confusion of information that is his mind he retreats back into the dream and looses all memory.
This book uses literacy devices that stun, one of the most perplexing catch twenty two's and one of the most ingenious plots that will keep any reader guessing as Robert Cromier takes us through the troubled mind of Paul Delmonte.
This is one of the best books in history, Five stars from me.
CL
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Summary: I am the Cheese
Review: ...P>this book by robert cormier was an excellent book and is one that you dont want to put down. it has several different linse that the novel follows and is sort of confusing if your not an avid reader. the book follows about two story lines one is a journey and the other is a person being questioned.
in the end the two storys come together. there are many people that wouldnt understand this book as there are the two story lines and lots of characters that come into the book for a while and dont get developed.
there is also another confusiong aspect where there are little clues added throughout the book and that eventually make sense when they meet up in the second last paragraph. i recomend this book for anyone over 14 unless you are an avid reader
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Summary: Tess's Review
Review: I Am the Chees, by Robert Cormier, is and exciting book. I liked the book because it was very suspensful, even up to the end. There is always something new to find out. Every sentence in the book is and important peice to the puzzle of the book. At first, the book does not make sense, but at the very end, it is all very clear. It is not like all the normal books you read, it is great. It is one of my favorite books.
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Summary: What happened to an ending?
Review: At first this book was very eye catching and suspensful. I always wanted to read more even though I thought it to be very confusing. The book jumps from past to present and sometimes its hard to keep up. But i continued to read it, interested in how this strange book was going to turn out. Well once I finished I was just about as confused as I was to begin with, maybe even more. This book didn't have an ending! Well at least not one that I could understand, it was terribley confusing and left me at a cliff hanger. 3 stars for a waste of time.
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Summary: Haunting twilight zone YA novel
Review: A young boy pedals from Monument, Mass to Rutterberg, VT. His bike is old, tired. It has no speeds, no fender. The boy is hoping to find his father in Rutterberg and give him an important package. He is all alone. "I am the Cheese" is a deceptively simple book. Though it's short and has simple and easy prose, you quickly get the idea that something else is going on, or that something horrible has happened. You soon wonder what that horrible thing was, but even that question takes a backseat to a bigger one - is the boy's journey one of self discovery or of self-invention. The end of "Cheese" seems abrupt and unsatisfying, and even hints at something we must have long realized - that all is not right in our hero's mind. Still, the writing saves a surprise, detailing the depth and self-realization of the boy's delusion. Though the book is written in easy prose for teen readers, I doubt anybody but adults will apreciate the web of mystery it surrounds itself with. If you're left unsatisfied by the ending, you'll probably find yourself re-reading the whole book. Lucky you.
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