Tenderness

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Summary: AWSOME
Review: This is a book with a totally unespected ended. It leaves you wondering what the outcome is and if it was fair. This is definitely a debatable book. Robert Cormier has done it again with this thriller.

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Summary: Tenderness
Review: I would like to recommend the Tenderness by Robert Cormier. It was so interesting about what characters are thinking. It also emotional and realistic. Each characters are so emotional. Lori is so interesting character, because she is same age as me. So it makes me interesting what she going to do. I really recommend this novel for teenager girl.

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Summary: A MUST FOR REAdeRS
Review: First of all, I would like to say that this is one of the best books of all time. The last chapter kind of breaks your heart a little bit because of what happens. The characters are described and used perfectly. The idea of feeling sympathy for a serial killer is kind of wild but it won't so hard to believe once you read it. I couldn't put it down I read it in 2 days! If you are into the whole pshycoligical mystery genre than please pick up this book today you wont regret it. And Im only 13!

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Summary: Tenderness
Review: Tenederness, by Robert Cormier, was about a young girl who fell in love with a serial killer in Wickburg, New York.
Lori Cranston was an only child and lived with her mother and her mother's boyfriend. While watching t.v. she saw Eric Poole and immediatly fell in love.
Eric Poole was just getting out of a facility. He had murdered his mother and her boyfirend and was sent away until he turned eighteen. Now he was out and had the taste of blood in his mouth.
When they meet, Lori has to try really hard to get Eric to like her and want to keep her alive. She has no fear and he likes that.
When I first began to read this book it didn't capture me the way I like books to. As I read further on, little by little, I couldn't stop. It wasn't that the story was just so good, but more the way each chapter was written. The author went back and forth from character to character, giving you hints that the two would meet(foreshadowing,) but not knowing what they would do together. The answer won't come until the last chapter, too. You just have to keep reading. Each chapter will strike you differently. Some will leave you grief strucken and feeling remorse for the characters, while others leave you angry and wanting revenge.
Tenderness is a great book for teenagers, and young adults. I really enjoyed reading it.

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Summary: Still Shocked by the conclution
Review: A fantastic novel! It keeps you on the edge of your seat untill the twisted yet horrid ending. A must on you reading list! One of the best pieces of literature I have ever read.

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Summary: Thriller
Review: This is a great book that makes you guess what will happen next. I just picked it up in the library one day...I had read "I am the cheese" and was intrested to see what else this author wrote. The only thing I didn't like was the end.

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Summary: It was okay
Review: I thought this book was very good except i did not aprove of the ending. It was a very disapointing ending i was not that happy about. Honestly i really did enjoy this book it was great as far as details and content. I enjoy cormier's work it is very sad that he is no longer with us. I give this book three stars!

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Summary: One of my favorite books...
Review: Upon reading tenderness, I was intrigued by how real the book was. Lori's behavior showed just how a sexually abused teenager might act, instead of the hysterical actions of many abused fiction characters. I loved reading this and many Robert Cormier books because they seem to unlock the human mind. While reading about Eric Poole, I couldn't help but think if this is what really goes on inside the mind of a serial killer. It is the only way to describe him, and the way that Lori and Eric's stories were brought together in the end truly got to me. After reading this, Robert Cormier has been my favorite author of all time, and I, at the age of fifteen, am still setting out to read every single one.

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Summary: A psycho-lovestory
Review: "Tenderness", written by Robert Cormier, describes the relationship between a runaway girl and an 18-year-old murderer. The novel unnormally consists of three lines of conflict with three different resolutions: The question whether Eric will kill Lori, Jake Procter's stalking and the growing possibility of love between Eric and Lori. For that reason the novel never becomes boring, but it is an interesting and entertaining psycho-lovestory.

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Summary: So long, our great author of young adult 'real' stories
Review: Eric Poole, the protagonist, is a teenage killer. He killed his mother and stepfather, and disguised that he had been abused. He has been put in facility, not prison, and after three years, he's freed. And there are Lori, fifteen-year-old runaway girl, who had once talked with Eric and would like to meet him again, and Proctor, old cop, who's sure of Eric's other murders and traps him again and again to put him into prison. At last, Eric and Lori get out of a Proctor's trap and start on a journey. But...
The story ends without 'tenderness' and leaves me with a dismal impression, but it tastes real. Real? What is 'real'? Eric is indeed a bad boy, but he's not foolish. He's very cool and smart. He's not such an exaggerated character as 'Dr. Lector' and may be one of teenagers we meet on the streets everyday.
So, like the other stories of Robert Cormier ("The Chocolate War," "We All Fall Down," etc.), "Tenderness" is more real for us than ordinary Hollywood crime movie stories.
Robert Cormier, the author, died last year. So long and thank you, Mr. Cormier!