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Summary: I liked it
Review: This book was given to me for christmas and i read right away. I had read one other of Robert Cormeir's books and thought it was good. The beginning of this book is kind of slow but it picks up after the first couple pages. I thought that he really got into the ming of trent the interrigator and made it seem like you were him. Cormeir writes in a fashion where each of the main characters each get their own cahpters. For example chapter 2 would be trents turn to be in his mind, and chapter 3 would be the boys turn. The book to me was interesting because when you really get down to it you see that it gives you insight into the mind and world of a power hungrey cop and a lost and confused little boy. I would recommend this book to my friends and i thought that it was good.
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Summary: Very Good
Review: This book is about a boy named Jason who was the last person to see a 7-year old girl alive before she murdered.We know from the begining that Jason is innocent but he is the prime suspect.An interrogetor named Trent is hired to get a confession out of Jason.Half-way through interview, it becomes clear to Trent that Jason is innocent.But he is so dertimined to succeed he continues.The book is very good with and intriuging ending that really makes you think.The subject matter is serious, so heed the 12+ recommendation.
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Summary: An Interesting One
Review: This book to me displayed the torments that one person can feel over one's job. It showed that as they say in the book' "you are your work". I feel that this book deals with the emotional crises that Trent deals with in his line of work. It shows how far one person will go to make a name for himself and what it does to the little boy. I thought that the book was good in the fact of the mystery and all. I have read one other book of Robert Cormier's, Tenderness, which I thought to be an exciting thriller. This book is interesting and i would want my friends to read it.
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Summary: The Rag and Bone Shop
Review: I purchased this book for my 10 year old, who was assigned to do a book report on a mystery. I found the book at Amazon in the Children aged 9-12 category. When the book arrived, my daughter noticed the book jacket suggested this book was for ages 12+, and asked me to pre-read it for her. I am so glad that I did. While the book is not particularly difficult (no advanced words), the subject matter is extremely mature and definitely inappropriate for a 10 year old. The book is provocative -- for an older child -- aged 12+.
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Summary: With a moving plot and surprising outcome
Review: Robert Cormier's Rag And Bone Shop holds very adult themes: a seven-year-old girl is murdered and a twelve-year-old must answer to charges in this story of a young person's involvement in murder. Almost too realistic but with a moving plot and surprising outcome.
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Summary: You knew what was going to happen.
Review: I gave this book three stars because I basically knew what was going to happed after the first few chapters. The main character, Jason, was a quiet boy who kept to himself and who didn't like the spotlight on him at all. Even in class when the teacher called on him. He liked little kids a lot, he liked how they acted. Jason was acused of murdering a young girl who he liked to play with every once in a while. Since he was the last person to be seen with her, they pointed the finger at him.I could have given this book a lower rating but the book was exciting in a way that made me never put it down until the book was done. So thats why I gave this book three stars.
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Summary: Cormier's last magic
Review: This novel is not very long, but so sadistic that I couldn't help reading through it in one sitting. In other words, I wanted to finish and forget the horrible novel as soon as possible.
@There, the police summoned a very able interrogator to make a murderer of a schoolgirl out of an innocent boy. The interrogator was convinced that the boy was innocent. But his pride and desire for promotion prevented him from stopping his persistent interrogation. At last, the boy....
@About half the novel was the interrogation scene. It almost made me sick. But I couldn't throw away the book. It's Cormier's last magic.
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Summary: The usual Cormier blend of compassion and cruelty...
Review: Reading Cormier's swan song is all the sadder for knowing it's his swan song. His time to be re-evaluated as a master of fiction, not just a master of young-adult fiction, is long overdue. In any event, the bulk of this one is a prolonged and bruising interrogation. A seven-year-old girl has been found murdered. Twelve-year-old Jason Dorrant is the prime suspect, though there's no 'physical evidence' to link him to the crime. Trent, a hotshot interrogator brought in to speed the case to closure, grills the boy. This being Cormier, you're pretty sure Jason is innocent, but only pretty sure. Hence the compassion and cruelty of Cormier's method -- sometimes when reading the latest Cormier book (including this one) you'd sort of get mad at him for creating such likable, sympathetic characters and then putting them into the meat grinder. But he made you care, so it was impossible to stay mad even if you hated what happened to the good people in his work. This is classic Cormier -- childhood innocence broken on the rack of adult corruption (the town officials want to point the finger at Jason because they want SOMEONE to take the fall); sensitive and alert rendering of shifting moods and thoughts (Cormier's books have always been too interiorized to allow for good movie adaptations; I wouldn't want to see Hollywood attempt this one); the sense that evil often prevails, but that doesn't mean good shouldn't try anyway; and, most vividly, one of the most chilling final lines in all of Cormier. I sort of wish Cormier had left us with something a little more optimistic, but he was never particularly optimistic, just realistic. And his complex portrait of Trent -- as a man who has grown to hate what he does and who he is, but does it anyway because it's necessary and he happens to be skilled at it -- separates Cormier from many youth-flattering authors who indulge in easy kids=good, adults=bad equations. Cormier was about the messier arithmetic of the human soul. It's a shame he's not still out there crunching those numbers. He will be missed.
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Summary: The last book
Review: How I wish Robert Cormier was alive right now so I could call him up and tell him exactly what I thought of this wonderful book. It was pretty obvious to me from the beginning who committed the crime. The question was: would Jason confess? When I heard about this book I figured it would be some combination of the elements of Cormier's previous books "Tenderness" and "I am the Cheese". Trent is not like Brint, but in the end they acted very much the same. And Jason is no Eric Poole...until the end. I read the second-to-last chapter and thought, "Whew." Then I read the final pages and I was like "Oh my god..." This book is like the grand finale at the end of a fireworks show. Good work, Robert!
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Summary: a good summer read
Review: this book caught my attention and i had to read it. and to my delight found it a wonderful mistery story and a story about the corruption of police investagators and the sadness of a very outsider boy. very good story for teens.
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