Tenderness

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Summary: "No man chooses evil..."
Review: Cormier's books are representations of realism; and that usually makes him a target of censors, and or controversy. Once again, he weaves a story of struggle, and it ends up an unsuccessful struggle. I enjoy Cormier's books because they have twists and don't have happy endings...the world is filled with dragons, and we better be prepared for them. Some of these dragons give us undesirable endings.

The quotation in the summary is from Mary Shelley, and the ending reads...he only mistakes it for happiness..." Keep that in mind as you read or think about the book.

You will either hate or find you self feeling sorry for Eric, and that is what Cormier wants, he wants you to identify with the character and have strong feelings...if not the book fails. It is ironic that we find sympathy for a serial killer, but that is not the only irony in the novel.

Keep in mind that "Lori" is short for "Lorelei", a German maiden who lured sailors to shipwreck on the rocks of the Rhine River. How fitting!

Enjoy this book, and read Cormier's The Chocolate War...the novel that is a study in conformity and cruelty.

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Summary: Tenderness, by Robert Cormier
Review: Tenderness is a strange novel intended for younger people. The plot, although unusual, kept my interest throughout the whole story. Always wondering what would happen next, I continually read on until I finished. It began with Lori, the main character, talking about her latest fixation. Whenever she got obsessed with someone, she had to kiss that person to end the fascination. This was only one of her minor quirks; Lori also felt the need for tenderness in her life. She sought it with her English teacher, her mother's boyfriend, and even people that she did not know. The person she wanted tenderness with in the early part of the book was Throb. He was a musician that she saw on television and became enchanted with him. She ran away from home when she heard he was going to be playing in a near by town. Once she got her chance to kiss him, Lori became fixated on someone new. While sitting in a restaurant, she saw a news report. Eric Poole, a convicted killer, was being released from jail. Eric had killed his mother, step father, and was accused of killing many young girls. Like Lori, he wanted someone to be tender with. Eric would choose a girl, go out with her, and then killer her. He was always expected to have committed these crimes, but it could not be proven in court. Lori would sit outside Eric's house for many weeks, until one rainy night she hid in his van. He noticed her there the next morning when he was driving on the freeway, attempting to leave town. During their travels, they developed a relationship that would best be described as peculiar. They ended up learning more about themselves, each other, and tenderness as their connection grew stronger. This book was hard to put down once I started it. It held my interest and kept me hooked from beginning to end. Thought it was not intellectually stimulating, it was interesting and worth reading. Lori and Eric made the story unreal, like people one would never expect to meet, but were intriguing. I never knew what to expect, they continually surprised me. Tenderness greatly resembled many of Cormier's other books in that the plot and characters appealed to a younger audience. Some of his novels have even won awards. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes stories that are not considered "normal". The dynamics create a clear image that help carry the story from beginning to end.

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Summary: I loved it!
Review: This book was very intresting. Robert Cormier did a fantastic job writing from both a male and female point of view. I didn't really like the way this book ended, but the rest of the story was awesome.

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Summary: Hum....
Review: Dear Reader,

Okay I must admit when I read the back cover I thought it would be something more along the lines of a person wrongly convicted of a crime and this girl would help him prove it. But it turned to be something way different. Both star characters are really messed up and the story has a really bad end. I might be weird liking the old fashioned 'happily ever after' end but that's the way I am. I wont tell you what happens if you are planning on reading it but check it out at a library first.

No disrespect to the author, I mean I hope some day I will be able to publish a book but though you will probably never read this I do abmire the fact that you published a book I just dont like it as much as many others I have read.

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Summary: Tenderness
Review: Tenderness by Robert Cormier is a story about a girl named Lori who gets these "fixations" on people and the only way they can be broken is if she kisses them. Her first fixation is a rockstar that goes my the name Throb. She goes to her old town to see Throb so she can finally end her fixation.
After she ends that fixation she find herself into another one with Eric Poole an 18 year old boy who has just be let out of a correctional home for the murder of his parents. So now Lori is fixated on a Murderer.
In the book Lori and Eric meet. Lori relizes shes not fixated on Eric shes in love with him, but Eric is searching for Tenderness. Lori recieves tenderness when she ends her fixations and knows that Eric holds the kind of tenderness she wants.

I think this book is a great book it shows the different points of view from the main charecters and uses imagery. You would like this book if you were into twisted love stories. I one things about the book that I didnt like was how it ended other wise it was great.

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Summary: Tenderness by Robert Cormier
Review: The title of my book is Tenderness. Robert Cormier is the author. He has also written: Heros, The Chocolate War, We All Fall Down, and more.
Lori Cranston is a teenager with blonde hair and a nice mature body (though she is only 15.) She only has a mother because her father had died along time ago. Her mother was always beautiful, and goes through lots of men, not her choice though...she just isn't good a picking out the "good type of guys." Most boyfriends of her mother like Lori also. Lori's mother is a waitress, and she is very experienced. They move around alot because of this, her mom likes to move up to higher qualitiy resturants.
Loriel had "fixations." She ins't a stalker or physco or a rapest, but she gets moments when she wanted to be tender with someone. Like the guy ad Aud-Vid land, she lets him look at her so that she gets free CD's from him since he works there. Or how about the guy she met on the thru-way, she let him make-out with her and touch her so she could get twenty dollars. But then her mothers boyfriend Gary, the first guy that actually treats her mother right since her husband trys to lay the moves on Loriel. She decideds she needs to get out, so she doesn't hurt her mom. She leaves a note saying that she is staying with her friends in her old town, her mom thinks she does this alot...even though Lori makes up peoples names everytime she leaves.
Now Lori is fixated on her favorite singer, Throb. All she wants is to kiss him, so she goes to Wickburg (her old town) and finds out that she can meet Throb. (But of course Throb does not know.) She waits outside in an alley-way where Throb will go to avoid the crowds of teenage girls. As the door opens she runs out and kisses Throb hard on the lips. At that moment, her fixation is oer. Those kind of things she gets, melt like ice. Her moral is, to do it and get it over with. (A moral is something like a motive, a reason for something that you do.)
She now is in a diner in Wickburg and something catches her eye. On the news it is talking about a guy that is getting out of jail for murder. (He killed his mother and his step-dad.) She then has a flash-back. (This is when something that once happend before pops into your head and you remember it.) She remembers his familar face, those eyes. Then she figures it out. She saw him along time ago when she used to live in Wickburg at the train tracks. She saw him with a girl and they went into the woods, but then she saw him again awhile later and he wasn't with her anymore, but she didn't think anything of it. She had a slight coversation with him.
After Eric gets out of jail (or the facility he was in) he moves in with his aunt. Lori goes through alot to stay in Wickburg...because she now has to be tender with Eric, and Eric gets these moments also. He just wants to be tender with someone, like Lori. One night Lori sneaks into his van to sleep and when she wakes up he is in the van pulling out of the drive-way. She is now trapped, so she shows him she is in there...he is stuck with her now. But of course, he remembered her too.
They are on a long journey in head of them. Lori is fixated...there is nothing stopping her, but what she doesn't know is Eric killed at least 3 girls because of wanting to be tender. The police are still watching Eric, there after him.
I recomend this book, it was the best book I ever read...I couldn't put it down! If you want to read a thriller, one that keeps you on the edge of your seat, Tenderness is it!

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Summary: Rachel Goss
Review: If growing up as a teen and all the problems and stress wasn't enough, Lori, had to deal with obsessions, her mother's relationships, and older men. Lori is 15 years old and has blonde hair and blue eyes. She has a very grown up body, so she looks older than she actually is. Eric Poole is 17 years old and a "monster," recently released out of jail. Lori and Eric are both in search of the same thing, tenderness.
Lori ran away from home, well technically she didn't run away. Lori told her mom that she was going to visit her two friends, Martha and George in Wickburg. There weren't actually two friends in Wickburg but she told her mother that so she wouldn't worry. Wickburg is where Lori and her mother used to live. Lori has never been settled in a house for a long period of time because of her mother's relationships. From abusing boyfriends to boyfriends who just don't care her mom has been through it all. Gary was her mom's new boyfriend. Gary was good to her mom and she felt that she might mess that up because Gary tried to touch Lori. Lori didn't want to ruin the one good thing her mom had she decided to get away for a while.
Lori has this thing, she calls them obsessions and they don't stop until she kisses the person. She was obsessed with Eric Poole. She saw him on the T.V. on the day he got out of jail. She knew she had to kiss him. She had a flashback of a day by the rail road tracks. She remembered seeing him with a girl. Eric stuck up for her and she remembered his smile. This was also an example of foreshadowing. I think it is an example of foreshadowing because if she brought it up normally it means something's going to happen that has to do with it.
Another element used is imagery. A good example is when they are at the lake. "I love the breeze on my face, the smell of the air and the water, never realized that water actually has a smell to it, clean and fresh, and Eric is handsome as he paddles the canoe, shifting the paddle from one side to another, and I half-close my eyes, squinting at him, and he looks at me with an expression on his face that I can't really pin down." I can exactly picture and have a specific smell of what it was like.
Eric was known for being tender with girls and then killing them. But with Lori it was different. She would often tell Eric how she loved him. He took her on a shopping spree and bought her everything she wanted. He took her on a canoe like she always wanted to. She was so excited and when she was on the canoe she screamed how she was the happiest girl in the world. But something awful happened, she lost her balance. You'll have to read the book to find out if Eric attempted to save her or just let her drown.
I really liked this book because it always kept me reading. I normally don't like to read but with this book it was different. It keeps you on the edge of your seat in a way wondering what's going to happen next. Also, there were many surprises like the ending was a total surprise to me.

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Summary: desire
Review: Tenderness, is the best book u could possibly read!!! In this book it talks about a 15 year old girl. She is [promiscuous and gets money for it.] Well most of the time steals it. The book book pretty much is pretty much about how she likes guys to be tender with her. Ok this girl runs away from home and tries ot find a guy she sees a guys on TV. She thinks she has seen him before. So she goes to his house and hides out in his vane and the nest morning he gets ready to move form his grandma's. on the way he hears something moving in the back seat and then sees her. So she rides around with him and he just got out fo jail so the cops follow him every where he goes but he doesn't know that. She stays with him for a while and if u want to know what happends at the end read tenderness.

I really liked this book i didn't want to put it down after I started reading it. This book is a lot like our life, becuase a lot of the girls like to get all over guys and don't care how old they are or dont care what it may do to them. pluss alot of girls are runnign away form home now a days becuase they want what they want and will do anything to have it even if it has to do with killing your self. But some advice read this book!!

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Summary: A must read
Review: Wow. That's really the best way to describe this book. As always, it ended completely unexpectidly. I'm even a cheat reader (sometimes I get excited and find myself reading the last page or two to find out what happens, naughty I know) and I found that I still wasn't able to predict what was really going to happen. Cormier is one of the best writers that I have ever encountered. He really seems to understand people and their emotions, perhaps he had a side hobby in psychology? All I can say is READ THIS BOOK. You won't be disappointed.

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Summary: extreme, but extemely good
Review: Lori Cranston, a fifteen-year-old girl, who leaves home to seek tenderness by sleeping with many men, meets Eric Poole, an eighteen-year-old boy, who also needs tenderness. As he has already killed three girls as well as his mother and his stepfather, a dangerous relationship between those two begins.

Cormier uses two viewpoints, which change during the novel. Lori's point of view is presented in first-person singular and Eric's perspective is written as a limited third person. By this the author can express both their feelings and thoughts in the same situation. The tension is also treated very specially since the novel has several climaxes and turning points.

The book can be rated as extremely good. The above-mentioned peculiarities have a great effect. So, the novel is very exciting and varied. In the first half of the book the reader waits for the encounter of the two youngsters. In the second half he has very different expectations, which all are not met in the respective situation. At some point he might anticipate a romantic relationship between Lori and Eric, but later he even fears Lori's death. Therefore, the novel is rich in surprises. The main characters are very interesting. Some people may say, even too much. Perhaps they cannot identify with such extreme persons and therefore tend to criticize a few disgusting passages.