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Summary: Wonderful story of friendship
Review: ...This book tells of the eccentric friendship between Violet, a budding screenwriter, and Claire, a girl who believes she is a Faerie. They're planning on writing a movie based on their lives, but it turns into anything but...and their life is more like the movie. They put their friendship on the line, but learn that they're best friends forever and need each other to survive.This book is a great reminder of the best things about friendship. It can remind you why you are so in tune with your best friend. I recommend this to everyone. It's not your average fairy tale. :)
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Summary: Violet and Claire
Review: This book is about two girls named Violet and Claire who has these strange lives, but want to become writers. They dream about weird things and go places probably daring people would go. Both have their separate and different lives, though. They talk about each other's lives in the story. They aren't sisters, but they watch over each other like sisters. BR> I sort of liked the book and I sort of didn't like the book. The reason why I liked the book was because of all the fantasy dreams that they have and I was also interested in the cover. The cover is surprising when you look at it. I also liked it because the author talked about how they wanted to acheive their dream, but there was too many things going on that they couldn't keep up.The reason why I sort of didn't like the book was because it was a little too confusing. There was too much information at once. I read a paragraph for probably ten times and I still didn't understand it. Then I kept reading and I sort of got the hang of it.
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Summary: This modern fairy tale = must read
Review: This book tells of the eccentric friendship between Violet, a budding screenwriter, and Claire, a girl who believes she is a Faerie. They're planning on writing a movie based on their lives, but it turns into anything but...and their life is more like the movie. They put their friendship on the line, but learn that they're best friends forever and need each other to survive. This book is a great reminder of the best things about friendship. It can remind you why you are so in tune with your best friend. I recommend this to everyone. It's not your average fairy tale. :)
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Summary: a friendship that was unbreakable
Review: Violet is an inspiring screenwriter. She dreams of one day making movies but for the time being writes her movie on a laptop wearing gogo boots and tight pants. She sees Claire one day wearing a tinkerbell shirt and faerie wings and sees the perfect girl her movie. A night with a famous rockstar changes everything though and Violet becames famous overnight while Claire seeks love in a poet with a gentle heart. These two girls must learn though what must happen in order for them to realize that they belong together, and that their friendship is worth more than there loves for movies or poetry.
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Summary: Magical.
Review: A beautiful, mystical book about two friends, complete oppisate and their journeys. Both through the throttles of chaos and heartbreak, they loose their friendship.
Violet is a strong, ambitious screenplay writer enthralled with black and white films from a rich family.
Claire is an innocent, mystical young girl who writes out her feelings in poetry, and meets a man of similar thoughts and ideas.
Following their own paths, the girls divide and face trauma and heartbreak alone, while both desperatly yearning for each other.
Although rather short, and lacking a lot of detail that would only improve upon the strong plot, it is a wonderful book that will send your emotions running.
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Summary: True Friends
Review: This isn't FLB's greatest work but that doesn't mean it isn't a must read. Violet and Claire have to distinct and even opposite personalities but they seem to be made for each other. Any Block fan should have this book.
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Summary: Graphic, Yet Memorable
Review: Read this book when you are feeling open to unrealistic worlds. I loved this book, even though at first I shuddered through the bedroom scenes, and grimiced at some of the situations. The truth is, Francesca Lia Block lives in a true faerie world. She creates images and thoughts that never occur in real life.
If you're a critical person, don't read the book. You won't enjoy it. But if you love to imagine things that could never happen, I definitely recommend it. You'll go back to this book again and again to escape the honestly of life.
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Summary: beautifulflawed.
Review: violet and claire is a brilliant book. quite catchy, really. i enjoyed the first half, told by violet, quite a lot; the lost star is for claire's part in the second half of the book. a nice storytale of cinema obsession from our beloved francesca lia block's twisted point of view.
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Summary: Violet and Claire is a novel all teens can relate to
Review: Throughout Violet and Claire by Francesca Lia Block stereotypes are overcome by a friendship between two characters who seem to foil each other. Violet and Claire are stereotyped merrily because of their looks and the clothes they wear, Violet dark and Claire innocent . It is through these differences that the two find friendship. In light of this relationship a lesson is learned that everyone is unique and that uniqueness should be celebrated. Through her characters, Lia Block reviles this important, sometimes hard to understand lesson, to her readers.
Hence, Violet and Claire are who they are because of events in their lives,much as it is the same for all people. Violet had a rough, dark childhood as her parents cared little for her, and so she has become those emotions, and she expresses them in the clothes she wears and her attitude towards life. " Violet: the dark one , dressed in forever black, dreaming in Technicolor, longing to spin the world into her own silver screen." (back cover, Violet and Claire) Claire however, has had a happy life and so she has become a character much like that upon her shirt, Tinker Bell. "Claire: a real-life Tinker Bell, radiating love and light, dressed in wings of gauze and glitter, writing poetry to keep away the darkness that surrounds her." (back cover, Violet and Claire) It becomes obvious that any human being would act the same way. Nevertheless, Violet and Claire find friendship because of these differences and it is discovered that no one is perfect. " Two girls racing through space, like shadow and light. One a purple-black butterfly, the other a white moth. Photo negatives, together they make the perfect image of a girl." (back cover, Violet and Claire) Women, no matter how distinct, are one in of the same,in that the problems they face are the same of that women all over the world are facing. "This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful." ( Pg. 168, Violet and Claire) Lia Block portrays the images of teenage girls, and how they struggle everyday to fit in.
In conclusion uniqueness plays an important role in any society. Each persons talents and gifts are needed to better the good of the community. It is hard to understand when some talents seem useless to life, but in every case all gifts are given for a specific reason. It may take a life time to realize uniqueness in your own way. Lia Block uses two unlike characters to bring forth a message of the value of uniqueness and how sometimes the best way to find comfort it is sharing your assets with others. " Two girls, blending themselves together like a magic potion, and then separating, one more powerful and more and more gentle after alchemy, neither afraid anymore." (Pg. 169, Violet and Claire) Lia Block has made it evidently important that in everyone's uniqueness, people can discover a little bit more of them selves, and each experience with other people makes a better, stronger person.
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Summary: magnificent book
Review: As soon as I read the first chapter in this book, I couldn't put it down. Everyone can find a bit of Violet or Claire in them. The rise of the cynical Violet is fascinating, she starts knowing exactly what she wants ans ends up in the bottom of a downward spiral. Claire is an innocent beauty. She loves Tinkerbell and living her youth, I loved the way FBL portrayed her discovery of evil things. I absolutely loved this book, and I reccommend it to everyone.
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