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Summary: The Rifle
Review: The Rifle
Book Review
There was man who built a beautiful rifle; it was a one of a kind rifle that could shoot farther then a regular rifle.
I really liked The Rifle. It gave me a movie picture in my mind, and I felt like I was in the book. It's the second best book I've read. The best book is The Transall Saga also by Gray Paulsen. The Rifle is about a hand crafter who built the rifle. The builder was amazed that he actually made one for himself. When he was finished with the rifle, he loved it. So he went outside and gave it his first try. He shot three bullets in the same spot, into a tree. When he was done shooting he realized that two of the bullets weren't there. But I will not tell you were they were. You have to read the book.
The builder friend who is good at firearms wanted that rifle, so the builder gave it to him. He saw one of his friends was going to be hanged by a British soldier; he shot at the British man who was going to be hanged. He said, "This is the best rifle I ever had." He was running and fell into a hole; it was dark, pitch black.
I think that the book is boring in the middle because the book is talking about a boy, and then it goes back to the rifle like in the beginning.
I also recommend the book Guts for you because if you like to read gross books, these are books the ones you want to read. The author put his life into the book.
Find out more by reading The Rifle by Gary Paulsen.
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Summary: Tripe
Review: This book is a piece of anti-gun propaganda. The story is simplistic. The only point of which is to show that guns are evil. If your a member of Handgun Control Inc. you might like it otherwise move along. Nothing worth reading here.
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Summary: Not good at all
Review: This book is boring. The most interesting part is where the guy is making the gun. The book really isn't about a gun. It's about a boy, everywhere he's ever lived, every friend he's ever made, and everything he's ever wanted to be when he grew up. The only reason I finished this book is because we were required to read it in school. Warning! Do not read.
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Summary: a rifle's journey
Review: This book starts off in Philadelphia with a man named Cornish McManus who is an apprentice to a master gunsmith. Cornish leaves the apprenticeship program and opens up his own shop. He was only doing small odds and ends jobs for rifles but he had his own thoughts on guns and so he started to build one. He spent nights working on this rifle then he ended up test firing it. All three balls that he shot at the log landed one on top of each other so then he hung it up in his shop. Every one wanted to buy it but he would not sell it until he met this young girl named Clara. He fell in love with her and they wanted to get married. He needed money in order to do so. So when this guy named Byam came in with a worn out rifle, he ended up trading him for a whole years worth of hides and his packhorse for the rifle. Byam became a Civil War hero because he could pick off the southern generals from 800 meters away. Byam died from the dirty conditions. Then one of the nurses took one of the rifles because she heard of it and she was going to give it to one of her sons, but they both died in an artillery explosion. She put the rifle in her attic and there it stayed for a hundred years or so. Then some one found it and sold it for $200 to some one who knew it was worth more. It was then sold to a man named Tim Harrow who ended up giving it to a man named Harvey Kine in trade for Harvey fixing Tim's fuel pump. Harvey ends up getting enough money from his business to move to Colorado. Harvey's next-door neighbors have a boy named Richard. He is a shy boy but he always has one true friend - his border collie. One Christmas over at the Kine's, Harvey was making a fire. When he went to move the logs, some of them rolled out and kicked up a bunch of sparks. Most of them went out but three hot embers went up by the gun that Harvey had mounted on the mantel. One trickled along the length of the barrel and went out; one fell into the pan and went out. But one fell into the hole on the right of the gun> It burned through the grease that Byam had put there so long ago, melted through the grease and went into the main charge part of the barrel where it hit some black powder. Although most of the black powder wasn't clean, the spark found a good grain and off. When the charge exploded, the gun fired and the bullet rang out of Harvey's house. It went through his yard and entered little Richard's house and hit him right in the head. He was killed instantly. This tragic event destroyed his family and it ruined Harvey's life. Four years later he dies of an alcoholic induced accident. Before he died he threw the rifle in a river. It was later found by a man who cleaned it up. And there it sits in his gun rack, waiting for the next bit of history. I think some of the things that work in this novel are how much he still goes into depth when something important happens with the rifle. And how he does not fly through all of the details and spends a lot of time explaining them. This makes it a lot easier to read. I think the one thing that I found that didn't work was when he was talking about how the rifle was being passed through a bunch of owners and this got a little confusing to follow. I really like this book because it went through a lot of people but they all had one related theme. And all the different uses of the rifle and see how it impacted all kinds of people's lives.
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Summary: I thought that this book was terrible.
Review: This book was boring from beginning to end. There was not much of a plot, little action, and I thought that the part about the construction worker was boring.
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Summary: John's Review of The Rifle
Review: This book was really good for a person who doesn't like to read. It is a short book with a big explosion at the end. I liked it because i like rifles and learning exactly how they work. I like how the author anways put a little bit of action at all times into the story. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes rifles.
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Summary: a different book
Review: This book was terrible. There was no point to it. Its just about a gun that has been owned by many people. Gary Paulsen is one of my favorite authors, but I dont know how he could have written such a bad book. Overall I hate this book and I dont recomend anybody reading it.
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Summary: FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET...
Review: This is a difficult book to categorize, since it is both Historical Fiction (American 18th century) and a warning to the danger of casually kept firearms. Regardless of its genre placement, this is one powerful read! Chapterless, but divided into four sections of differing lengths, this book is the "biograpy" of one particular rifle, handcrafted with love and precision in Colonial New England. The impact of this 1768 "sweet" rifle continues long after the Revolutionary marksmen's death. It survives because it was hidden away and forgotten for several generations, but it's power to kill merely lies dormant. Gradually the reader comes to realize that a bizarre combination of random factors will culminate in some modern disaster. We are haunted by a sense of impending doom, despite the absence of malicious will. This is a classic of coincidence, where History meets the Present, when the timeline of a rifle intersects a human life, shattering many lives and attitudes. A fabulous and compelling book that will grip the reader and challenge firearms' defenders.
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Summary: Great Book for all ages
Review: This is one of the best books Gary Paulsen had wrote. He put a lot of detail into such a little book but thats what gives it its own character. There were some pros and cons to the book. MOst of the cons were about the detail and how it got passed down from generation to generation. Also that the gun lasted for so long. The con of the book was when the gun killed the owners son. I am not sure whos fault it is, but i think it is Harvey's fault for not getting rid of it like his wife told him to do when seh first saw it. This is a must read book for all ages.
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Summary: [Super Book !]
Review: This is one of the best books I ever read. Gary Paulsen has wrote another must have book! He is my favorite author. This is an adventure/mystery about a civil war rifle. I think that anybody could read this Super Book. I liked it because it's by Gary Paulsen.
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