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Summary: Not Blumes best, but not her worst either...
Review: This book did not have the best plot- rather dissapointing when you've read some of Blume's other work. However, it angers me when I read other people's reviews that say, "This book was dirty!" or "Get some morals, Judy!" Yes, what the charecters in the book did was wrong, but Ms. Blume stated that toward the end. This book was not meant as a moral guide for life, but as a book of FICTIONAL entertainment. The people who made those idiotic comments were probably too young for the book, or it was at too high a perception level for them. No, this book is not for everyone. I would only reccomend it for the high school and mature middle-school students (middle school being 7th grade and up). Many people of that age group may even be disgusted by the book. Who knows. Ms. Blume talks a lot about teen issues in her books. If you enjoyed 'Are You There, God? It's me, Margaret' in elementary school, there is a good chance that you will like this one now. Content wise, 'Forever' simply takes on another teen issue that is one step higher than the last one.
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Summary: Emotionally Satisfying
Review: Judy Blume creates the most wonderful characters in her books. "Forever" is no exception. Wonderfully told in the first person, I was so sad to finish this book...it was like losing a good friend. This book is also wonderful in its depiction of a functional family. I see similar charateristics in Katherine's mother and in Abby, from "Summer Sisters." I loved them both.
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Summary: No real emotions
Review: I read this book a couple of months ago, and I don't see how it could be anyone's favorite book. It is so bland, I can hardly remember the characters now. Katherine always seemed to have things going her way, and Michael was a giant horny TOAD. Don't read this book if you are looking for more than a few little sex scenes.
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Summary: It was the most romantic book.
Review: I think out of all of Ms.Blume's books I've read, this one is the most romantic and it's filled with a little heart breaking too. When I started to read this book I could not put it down. It was simply fabulous and I loved it. I also liked the way she described their feelings and thoughts. It was real nice. Plus some parts in this book made me laugh. So I enjoyed it very much.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I could really relate to this book. It's a excellent book for any teen. It's about a girl and her first time and all that's in between.
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Summary: A 13-year-old's "thriller"
Review: The opening sentence is a blatant attention-grabber: "Sybil Davison has a genius I.Q. and has been laid by at least six guys." Unfortunately, it's also a complete non sequitir, since no mention is ever made of Sybil again until more than halfway through the book, and even then, no more than 3 pages total are devoted to her. No matter: Judy Blume's object here is to hook the 9-13 age group, and the "in-your-face" sex references are part of the strategy. What's more disturbing than the non sequitir is that the short paragraph about Sybil smacks of sexism. Would anyone suggest that a guy who had scored 6 times had a "problem"? Probably not, and it never happens in this book either. In fact, the heroine's boyfriend has had V. D. before, because he rushed into sex with a girl whose last name he didn't even know. Yet, the narrator, Katherine, does not even call him on it, nor does she address the issue of whether or not he has a "problem". The main plot is thin enough so that kids looking for the "good parts" will not have to flip through too many pages. Katherine is a high-school senior when she meets Michael at a New Year's Eve party given by Sybil, the aforementioned "slut". As in most movies, Katherine treats him with disdain at first, for no reason whatsoever. ("Erica says I'm just insecure. Maybe she's right. I don't know.") Typically, Michael is too headstrong (and horny) to take her stand-offish-ness too seriously, and proceeds to flirt with her until he gets a date. Another movie plot: the cute "persistent" boy, who would normally be thought of as a potential stalker, manages to charm Katherine because "I came all the way back here just to talk to you". The "dirty" parts would be nothing to write home about in an adult novel, but when you're targeting the pre-teen audience, the "F" word and references to sexual organs can be very tantalizing indeed. Other than that, the book isn't very involving. Katherine and Michael begin to date. Michael, like the horn-dog he is, begins to push for sex almost immediately, but manages to be "charming" about it so that Katherine doesn't instantly dump him the way she dropped her last sex-crazed boyfriend. Although the pair only see each other once or twice a week, they talk of very little other than sex, and what colleges they're going to (so they can arrange for weekend visits). This hardly seems like a realistic portrayal of a love relationship, in which long conversations about everything under the sun take place. In Blume's world, teenagers simply say, "Well, when are we going to do it?" "Soon, I promise". It gets monotonous. Admittedly, Blume does a wonderful job depicting the sex relationship itself. In an age when most YA teens instantly got knocked up (punished) after "forbidden" sex, Blume wrote about a "nice" girl who went all the way, didn't get pregnant and didn't get VD. Now, of course, there's AIDS, and the condoms are no longer just a teenager's cheap protection against pregnancy, so the updating is always going to be a problem with a story like this one. Nevertheless, Blume set a new trend for YA writers by refusing to go the "marriage" or "pregnancy" routes with her characters--an admirable, risk-taking choice that turned out to be more effective because of the realism. Very little else is noteworthy about the story. Katherine and Michael are not especially memorable characters, and they are too preoccupied with sex to have any interesting dialogue other than the precise "good parts" that pre-teens continue to highlight even to this day. It's too bad that Blume thought that a realistic portrayal of teen sex was enough; a realistic portrayal of a relationship would have been much better.
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Summary: this is a great book
Review: I think this is a good book for young people(like mylsef). I got the name of this book from a friend named ... Well she knows who she is. And I want to thank her for tellin me about the book because it's good... It is kinda weird though... It helps us (kids) in a way we can understand about this kind of stuff. Well peace out and write me if you want to
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Summary: It was a deep very emotional love story.
Review: That book was very very sad and it didn't end how I wanted. Blume doesn't write this like some of the other books that always go how the reader wants. This was very, probably more than I liked realistic. It went into detail about things most other books shy away from. It talked about everything a teenager wanted to hear. This was graded down because of its ending. It was satisfying, but too realistic and didn't have enough hope. Still, I strongly recomend this book to everyone because of its strong point and great relations to kids our age.
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Summary: didn't like it at all!
Review: I did not like this book at all. I may only be eleven but I'm mature enough to understand this stuff. Katherine is just lucky that she didnt get pregnant or get HIV. This book I also thought was extremely weird I mean take a look at Michael he named his Di**,Ralph. I do not reccomend this book at all!!! next time I choose a book I'm looking at the back cover and not just read what judy Blume wrights!
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Summary: excellent
Review: I really enjoyed this book as a teen and still pick it up occasionally at 27 years of age. I believe that she captured a difficult time in a teenagers' life accurately and realistically portrayed the difficult choices and wrong decisions that they all make. I believe that this is a great book for teens to read as it lets them know about the results of their actions and also about being careful. Katherine realising that in the end she really wasn't in love with Michael was a great ending to the story and I believe that it would help teens to understand that what seems like love at the moment really isn't in the end and just how easily it can change. I also liked the subplot of Artie's suicide attempt. I feel that the characters reactions were accurate and heartfelt. A wonderful book about teen angst in general.
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