The Chocolate War

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Summary: I did not like the book
Review: I think the book was the least interesting, really boring, and too darn long.

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Summary: Good depiction of private school teens
Review: Cormier does a great job of depicting the teen society of private school. The Various rivalries and corruption give the book a superb plotline. Recomended to all interested in fictional drama based on catholic school teens.

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Summary: chocolate war is awesome
Review: power struggles, disturbing psychology. cool character architectypes

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Summary: YOU WIIL LIKE IT
Review: I think this book is very great. Before I read this book i really didn't get invovled with reading in school. well since i read this book i look for more of his writngs

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Summary: The Chcolate War is a good book, but not for younger readers
Review: The Chocolate War by Robert Comier is a story about a school called Trinity; it's a private school. This group, called the Vigils, basically rules the school. The school has a chocolate sale, and the Vigils assign a boy, named Jerry, to not sell chocolates for two weeks and he does it. People start to look up to him, so he decides to keep not selling chocolates. The Vigils get mad and they challenge him to fight one of their friends and he loses.

I would not recommend the book to younger readers because it has cursing and adult content. The book also promotes school violence because the Vigils go around torturing kids, and the teachers know about it and don't do anything.

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Summary: The best story to be put on paper!
Review: I first read The Chocolate War about two years ago. Since then, I've read it twice, and the sequal, Beyond the Chocolate War, three times. Truely a supurb piece of writing. Long live Archie Costello!! ^_^

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Summary: a powerful psycological childrens book that disturbs me.
Review: This book is an important cultural text within american contempory literature. I read this eight years ago at secondry school in Sevenoaks Kent. I have carried the impact of this book since then which is some feat, as I have read writers from Kerouac to Holub to Rushdie to Kundera since and only a few books have touched me in the same way as the Chocolate war, also I am studying creative writing under a cultural studies course and plan to write an essay on its narrative. the book is of the deconstructive nature that text is experiecing in our postmodern (sorry!) times. Cormier is a master of child psychology and the book is a disturbing piece of literature, I would be very more disturbed to of been an american student in this kind of institution... yours with a unhealthy english glow, Mr A.T.McDonnell - anyone wishing to confer on the works of Miroslav Holub or the ace lo-fi band quickspace can contact me at: [e-mail] top notch people!

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Summary: This book must be read by all!
Review: I am an English major working on my teaching certificate. I had to read this book for one of my classes. I love the way Cormeir writes. Don't expect a happy ending, but expect everything else that a good book provides. You will not be disappointed. This book is appropriate for upper level high school students and would be great in classroom discussions.

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Summary: Kds under 15 can not possibly understand the wonderful work.
Review: There is a lot more to this book than middle school age kids can understand. The metaphors and symbolism are very deep and I think that most young readers would walk away with little. Possibly their immature minds would remember the jacking -off part, but there is much more to this book than they will ever see. I am 19 and I think this book is incredible! The only one of Cormiers books I enjoyed more was"After The First Death."

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Summary: Gloomy but valuable lessons in this stylish vehicle
Review: I read this book every year from sixth grade through high shcool graduation. I've read it a couple more times in the decade since then. It still holds up. Surprisingly complex and dark for a "young adult" novel, it makes me alternately laugh and squirm, and feel sad, angry, and, ultimately, righteous. While we identify with Jerry, may secretly wish to have Archie's power, and collectively hate Leon, Cormier does not cop out with a corny, predictable, ending. It teaches readers that there are indeed malevolent forces in the world, and sometimes being true to yourself (as important as that is) can land you in deeper trouble than you can imagine. There is no happy ending here, except that there is an equally skillful sequel available. The only element of this book that I don't like is the way the Vigils run the school. Secret clubs coercing students is one thing, but to have a headmaster turn to them for help is something else. But when looked at on another level, that becomes a negligible nitpick.