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Summary: I loved this book so much, I've read it a dozen times
Review: I read a review of this book in a magazine and decided to go out and buy it. That was about a year and a half ago, and i've read it at least a dozen times. It is an amazing book, and I would recommend it to everyone between the ages of 14 and 20. Into the Great Wide Open is the tragically sad and moving story of Kenny and Junie, seventeen and in love. Of course, as with all young love, there are obstacles: Junie's "problem", Kenny's alcoholic father and institutionalized mother, and the world that Kenny knows will take Junie away from him. This book made me cry a lot and laugh a little, but most of all, it made me think about what a fragile gift love is. Kevin Canty made me feel everything Kenny felt as if I was in the story. I have never read a book that lets us into the mind and heart of the character as much as Into the Great Wide Open does. It is a beautifully written tale with the univeral theme: "Why must I be a teenager in love?"
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Summary: This book is superb!
Review: I read this book when I was twelve. Only because I thought I was the most mature girl in the world. That was a laugh, but this book changed my view of love forever. I learned to appreciate love and to hold on to it more tightly. This book is absolutely amazing. Canty wrote a piece of pure genious. This book is definitely NOT for a twelve year old, but from anyone 14 and older. Its... there are no words to describe it. Its that good.
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Summary: Yay! for Kevin Canty
Review: I read this book... it seems like a while ago... i was in high school. I feel like it was maybe 8 years ago or so... i was 17 (i think, by looking at the publication date). I don't even remember where i got it. Did i buy it? A gift?
I just remember loving this book. It's the story of 2 unlikely people to date... by unlikely, i mean people from different "sides of the tracks." I remember being enthralled by their romance (and by some sexy scenes in which they do some things in a car).Kevin Canty's new book "Honeymoon and Other Stories" came out not too long ago. I manage in a book store and didn't even realize that it was the same author, and picked it up when i noticed how many copies i was selling and after selling one to a musician i like.
Then when i went to my mother's house for X-mas, i rediscovered "Into the Great Wide Open" on my childhood bookshelf and remember loving it. So not i'm really excited to read "Honeymoon" and to re-read "Into..." This is a book you can read and re-read. I think Kevin Canty definately knows how to tell a story!
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Summary: Yay! for Kevin Canty
Review: I read this book... it seems like a while ago... i was in high school. I feel like it was maybe 8 years ago or so... i was 17 (i think, by looking at the publication date). I don't even remember where i got it. Did i buy it? A gift?
I just remember loving this book. It's the story of 2 unlikely people to date... by unlikely, i mean people from different "sides of the tracks." I remember being enthralled by their romance (and by some sexy scenes in which they do some things in a car). Kevin Canty's new book "Honeymoon and Other Stories" came out not too long ago. I manage in a book store and didn't even realize that it was the same author, and picked it up when i noticed how many copies i was selling and after selling one to a musician i like.
Then when i went to my mother's house for X-mas, i rediscovered "Into the Great Wide Open" on my childhood bookshelf and remember loving it. So not i'm really excited to read "Honeymoon" and to re-read "Into..." This is a book you can read and re-read. I think Kevin Canty definately knows how to tell a story!
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Summary: over and again
Review: Kevin Canty's work is a flickering greenish fluorescent bulb over head. I love it.
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Summary: This book is superb!
Review: Read this book. It describes everything you couldn't when you first realized that love wouldn't save you from becoming less than you had hoped you'd become - from the monumental boredom of adulthood. The story stays with you long after you've finished it - in the same way Canty's protagonist is haunted by the feeling that the truest part of himself was in someone else, and entirely behind him. If you read books to be changed by them this one won't disappoint you. It's a gift from Kevin Canty.
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Summary: When you feel like the best part of you is in someone else:
Review: Read this book. It describes everything you couldn't when you first realized that love wouldn't save you from becoming less than you had hoped you'd become - from the monumental boredom of adulthood. The story stays with you long after you've finished it - in the same way Canty's protagonist is haunted by the feeling that the truest part of himself was in someone else, and entirely behind him. If you read books to be changed by them this one won't disappoint you. It's a gift from Kevin Canty.
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Summary: Best book I've read in a long time.
Review: Someone finally wrote it...a brutaly truthful story of generation zero
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This book is actually based on a character from one of the short stories in Canty's collection. When Kevin first meets Junie, there's so much uncertainty about her, and it's just like the start of a dynamic relationship in real life - it keeps you on the edge of your seat, wondering if he's "in" or not. Laced with the problems of his alcoholic father vs. trying to relate with her Martha Stewart-like mother, it drove the plot and made it impossible to put the book down. Although slightly unbelievable in places, the book continues like this, and I always wondered if she was going to stay or go. The ending is much of the same - it's hard to talk about how excellent it was without giving it away, but reading the book tore the feeling out of me, and reminded me of my own youth. It's hard to put down, and aside from the plot, contains lots of excellent writing. If you like this book, make sure to check out his short stories - also a 10.
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Summary: This book is so real-it's kinda scary.
Review: This book is not hiding anything. Even the sexual content is realistic. It's about strange and confusing world of love with 2 kids that live in different worlds but come together to share there love. I recommend this book to older teens and adults.
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