Taming the Star Runner

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Summary: Taming the Star Runner
Review: "Taming the Star Runner" was awesome! I loved every minute of it, even if it wasn't challenging or long. To make it longer would have dragged it out too much. The plot was interesting (especially since it was about horses! ) I first read "The Outsiders" in school and fell in love with S. E. Hinton's books. I couldn't never even imagine trying to get a book published if I was 16! I did notice alot of similarities between the two books (same quotes and character portrayl, things like that). I highly recommend this book!

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Summary: Triumph
Review: A superbly paced book that accurately details the problems facing adolescents today...Hintons work covers such diverse problems as teenage love, family breakdown and juvenile crime. The main character, Travis, is funny and very realistic in his portrayal. Great read.

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Summary: Good plotline, but its end was unsatisfying
Review: Anyone that is a fan of the book The Outsiders should definitly read Taming the Star Runner. Both books are by S.E Hinton. Taming the Star Runner is a typical teenage novel that involves drugs, murder, and love. I would reccomend it for anyone between the ages of 13 and 20.
In the book, Travis is ordered by the court to go live with his uncle. Trvis is a punk teenager that lives in the city with his Mom and his Step-dad. Travis is also a very good writer. In the book he writes a novel and tries to sell it to a publisher. at one point in the book his uncle says "I didn't think you were capable of writing a compound sentence".This book's moral is that people shouldn't judge other people before they get to know them.
This truly is a great book. I, for one, love books by S.E Hinton. However, most greay things in life have a downfall just like this book. This book is very hard to get into. there are 181 pages and the climax is around page 160.

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Summary: Great book by S.E Hinton
Review: Anyone that is a fan of the book The Outsiders should definitly read Taming the Star Runner. Both books are by S.E Hinton. Taming the Star Runner is a typical teenage novel that involves drugs, murder, and love. I would reccomend it for anyone between the ages of 13 and 20.
In the book, Travis is ordered by the court to go live with his uncle. Trvis is a punk teenager that lives in the city with his Mom and his Step-dad. Travis is also a very good writer. In the book he writes a novel and tries to sell it to a publisher. at one point in the book his uncle says "I didn't think you were capable of writing a compound sentence".This book's moral is that people shouldn't judge other people before they get to know them.
This truly is a great book. I, for one, love books by S.E Hinton. However, most greay things in life have a downfall just like this book. This book is very hard to get into. there are 181 pages and the climax is around page 160.

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Summary: Don't waste your time on it!
Review: Don't read "Taming the Star-Runner" it is the worst book I have ever read. In fact, I hated it so much that I'm not going to waste any more of my time reviewing it. Bye~

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Summary: This book has tons of plots all tied into gether.
Review: I am very picky about books, but this is one of the best I've read. It's 11:00 pm now, and I started this book this morning. I haven't been able to put it down all day. It is so jam-packed with plots its not even funny. I started to cry at one part! This is a great book and I'd recomend it to anyone!

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Summary: I love all S.E. Hinton books
Review: I loved the book! The characters were real with emotion and how they spoke. Her other books, THE OUTSIDERS, THAT WAS THEN,THIS IS NOW, RUMBLE FISH, and TEX, all ended very strong. And TAMING THE STAR RUNNER did not end strong at all. It ended with new emotions to begin. You really didn't know much about Joe or the twins for a dramatic scene to happen about them. The book was great other then that though. It really explains how you can go from something your used to and something you love, to something you know nothing about and the complete opposite and just move on. To learn to live with it and enjoy it. So I give it 5 stars!!!!!!!

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Summary: Hinton did it again
Review: I rate this book a 9 cause it was written by a writer that I enjoy immensely. But it can't top The Outsiders her first and in my opinon best book ever. I had already read everything she had wrote and gave up hope of every reading anything new from her again after hearing about her doing children's books. But one night I sat down in the easy chair in the livingroom of our house and saw that book on the table beside it. My brother had checked it out from his school library and left it there. I picked it and didn't put it down till I was finished. Like all of her books I was instatntly able to wrap myself up in it and see the things that the main character was going through. I recommend this book for any young adult, or Hinton fan. Even if you haven't read anything by Hinton, if you feel like an outsider where you live and want to know how someone feels like that then buy this book, or check it out at your local library. It was so good I had to just recently go out and buy it and reread it myself. But hey don't just take my word for it go out and read it yourself.

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Summary: Zak's Review
Review: I read this book for the horsey elements! I have not yet finished it, but so far it is good. I do recomend it.

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Summary: Not her best, but not bad
Review: I read this book in a matter of days at a camp at the University of Tulsa. It, like her other books, deals with serious situations that a teen gets himself into. And, like her other books, the role of his parents in the book is not big, at least not for the mom. He tries to kill his step-dad, but I'd hate to give away the entire story. It wasn't the worst book I've ever read, but it was possibly the worst S.E. Hinton book I've ever read, although I've only read three. It's about a teen who gets into some big trouble with the law (I already told you that one), and must go live with his uncle in small town/rural Oklahoma. This is funny because I go to school in the town in which this book takes place. If you think you like this plot, then try The Outsiders and Tex. This book isn't a waste of time or money, it's just that those books are a couple of the best I've ever read.