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Summary: It was sad and emotional.
Review: This story was sad and very wordy. It put effects on you and made you think a little harder than usall. whaile seeing Bryon face horrible momments and loving ones like Cathy, was spirituall to me. esspetioally when he threw mark in jail. I don't think he should of done that. but now I am just saying What if. that is what the story is saying to me. Don't say what if.
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Summary: A very good book that I would recommend to everyone.
Review: This book is really good. I am 14 year-old. This is one of my favorites book. I like it because in the book you can see changes. A change that happens to everyone person. He grows. He makes decisions that are reflects his growing in the end.
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Summary: One of Hinton's best!
Review: This is the second best SE Hinton Book. I really liked how Ponyboy and the Shepards were in this. I really recomend this book.
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Summary: This book features realistic problems faced by teenagers.
Review: Tragedy and violence, friendship and love inform her theme. The main character in this novel, Bryon, has real life problems to deal with. He is very smart but defiant. He is a hustler and a player. He thinks about things but has a hard time expressing his true feelings. Bryon changes in the course of this novel. He begins to grow up. He stops hustling and gets a job. He stops using girls and develops a relationship with his best girlfriend. He learnd to express his deepest feelings. But all that changes after he turns Mark, his best friend, into the police. This impulsive action destroys his best friend. This novel had real teenage problems that led to tragedy. The characters had problems that required decisions. Sometimes these decisions led to tragedy. As this novel was written by S.E. Hinton, there are many unique characters. Her charater development is always very interesting and different. I really like this novel because it deals with real problems that possibly bould occur in people's lives. It also shows the human behavior when people face problems. I would certainly recommend this novel to other people my age(14) because it is about real life and youth. Some people might not like this book as much as I do because of its unhappy ending and much violence. However, most of them will probably like it because the novel creates a world you might have not imagined. To me, the novel, That Was Then, This Is Now, is a great book about teenage problems.
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Summary: Shows that not all desitions are easy
Review: I read this book for an 8th grade English report.I couldn't put it down and finished the book 22 times. This book is full of tough desitions. After reading this book I feel as though I could make any desision thrown at me. I always think back to a quote in chapter 11."You got even with Mark for Cathy, then you got even with Cathy for Mark. When are you going to start getting even with yourself?" said to Brion from his mother. Bryon feels he made a big mastake. Do you agree? Will Bryon let his desision make his whole world crumble all around him? Read the book to find out.
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Summary: Why do educators make their students read THIS?
Review: This book is more of a middle aged teacher's way of having their students/kids realize what they supposedly went through decades ago. Character's were way too vulgar, and the monolouge was full of slang so outdated that it was difficult to grasp what they were speaking of or describing. Teachers may enjoy this reminiscent into their past, but I as a kid growing up in this different society didn't quite understand why those were called the "good old days".
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Summary: a fabulous,different kind of book
Review: i thought that this was a fantastic book and written with a good and stable point of view. it didn't have some humoungous action packed plot, it just showed how life was for these teenagers. i reccomend this book to any and everyone
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Summary: It was one of the most boringest books ive ever reed
Review: It was not fun to read at all except for the realationship between the flower child and drugs
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Summary: iT SUCKED
Review: It was a very boring, and meaning less book which shouldnt of even been published. Im saying I hate it
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Summary: Grade-school Level Literature
Review: Oh man...is there something wrong with me if I find this book too simple for a 6th grader like I? My teachers are nuts or what? First and foremost I would like to say this book has to be one of the most unrealistic and childish book I have ever come across. Needless to say, it's a simple book for simple minds. Delenquints or future delenquints will find this book cute.
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