Seventeenth Summer

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Summary: Seven times, and each is just as enchanting!
Review: I've read this book already seven times since I first read it in the 7th grade...and every time it is simply lovely. Maureen Daly fills all of her books with a mysterious enchantment that I can utterly relate to and each time find beautiful and sweet. The book is written in the first person as Angie Morrow falls in love for the first time and she details everything so perfectly you wouldn't realize it was even a story! You feel you ARE her, and as if she is spilling your own heart out through hers. It is definately a book that ANYONE should read, so READ IT!

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Summary: It just gets sweeter with time!
Review: I've had this book since I was a teenager--though I read it as much to savor Maureen Daly's wonderful writing as to get swept away in Angie and Jack's story. It was my custom to re-read this every late June or early July, through good times and bad times, including a horrible first marriage. Maureen once said Angie and Jack were fictional characters--but she created them with such depth and detail that they helped give me hope that real love exists in real life. I haven't read this book in several years--mainly because I'm too busy with my wonderful husband (my REAL Mr. Right) and our beautiful daughter (who will be 4 on June 21--the first day of summer!). But I think it's time to re-introduce the tradition, and I will pass this on to my daughter when she's seventeen. Thank you, Angie. Thank you, Jack. But most of all, thank you, Maureen. . .wherever you are:)

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Summary: Seventeenth Summer
Review: Seventeenth Summer by: Maureen Daly

This story, written by Maureen Daly, is mostly based on the usual , girl falls in love with cute boy story and takes place the summer before leaving for college. You can mostly imagine what it would be like meeting and giving away your heart then having to leave. All this happens to the young main character in the story, Angeline Morrow.

In my opinion this story is like "oh ......would you like some bread with that butter!?!" and what I am trying to say is "would you like some story with that detail?". This book seems like it has a little too much detail and examples for every word, which kind of threw me off the subject a lot. I had to go back and re-read a cupple of times and it got pretty boring, also it didn't have a very happy ending, but in ways it was a cute book and would probably make an interesting film.

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Summary: Jasmine
Review: I first read this book in the 7th grade in the 70's. I am now 35 and I still enjoy reading this beautiful love story. Jack and Angie's story is timeless and refreshing a true classic. A must read for any young person. I often wondered why Maureen Daly never wrote a sequel, I would liked to have known what beacame of their romance.

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Summary: Seventeenth Summer
Review: Seventeenth Summer by: Maureen Daly

This story, written by Maureen Daly, is mostly based on the usual , girl falls in love with cute boy story and takes place the summer before leaving for college. You can mostly imagine what it would be like meeting and giving away your heart then having to leave. All this happens to the young main character in the story, Angeline Morrow.

In my opinion this story is like "oh ......would you like some bread with that butter!?!" and what I am trying to say is "would you like some story with that detail?". This book seems like it has a little too much detail and examples for every word, which kind of threw me off the subject a lot. I had to go back and re-read a cupple of times and it got pretty boring, also it didn't have a very happy ending, but in ways it was a cute book and would probably make an interesting film.

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Summary: A Drag
Review: When i bought this book I thought it would be full of jucie love. But i was really about this girl who was going off to college and had never had never kissed a guy before. Too add on to that she never had a boyfriend before. I kept wondering when something good was going to happen but it never did. Angie was very shy she and never told her boyfriend anything. It was boring. You might like this book if you were shelterd and have no life.

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Summary: Simply Beautiful
Review: Earlier this summer I picked up Seventeenth Summer and fell in love with the illustraious characters Daly has perfectly painted into her novel. It surprised me, however, when I checked the copyright date and noticed it was published in the early 1940's. I had absolutely no idea, considering the way love is truly timeless and this beautiful novel proves all of the above. As a high school student, I can completly relate with the giddy feelings of first love for a teenage girl and this novel perfectly portrays all of the emotions, trials and even tragedies that are intricated into such a powerful emotion. Summer is such a perfect time to begin the story and Daly has perfected the beautiful feelings of love in such a wonderful season. While reading other reviews featured for this book, it amazed me that so many different people of all walks of life could relate to this book, even with someone of my own age! I defiently recommened it, like I have with friends, family and even teachers at school. Pick it up- it won't be a novel you won't soon forget, I promise.

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Summary: Seventeenth Summer
Review: I remember checking out this book in junior high school. My Mom had read it and loved it. I read it for the 3rd time and appreciated it. It is a book that has the ability to give you a picture of a bygone era.

The feelings of Angie are ones that all of us can relate to for the first love experience. The discriptions of the weather, food and the summer are priceless. I still love this book and it is like seeing an old movie over and over.

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Summary: My GRANDDAUGHTERS love my favorite book - SEVENTEENTH SUMMER
Review: I am 71 and about 56 years ago, at age 15, I fell in love with Jack. Actually, I remember it as though it were yesterday. Every girl I knew read SEVENTEENTH SUMMER that year and we were all weak with 'true' love as we lived this sweet romance. We were giddy in PE class!

I never had a daughter but I have now given this wonderful book to my Granddaughters and they also loved it. Young people live so much faster these days that they might often miss this kind of love.

Don't miss out on sharing this book with a young girl. Any young girl! Give it to them before they are 17. Let them capture the freshness of young love - and they never have to get in the sack! Let them want their first kiss to be gentle, lovely and one worth remembering. Ahhhhh I spoiled it. Yes, he does finally kiss her! You will love this book.

When I read THE NOTEBOOK and A WALK TO REMEMBER by Nicolas Sparks, I thought of this book. Some people just know how to write about true love! All we have to do is read! Let me hear how you like it.

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Summary: Amazing Novel of Teen Romance
Review: Seventeen-year-old Angie Morrow has finally graduated from high school, and is planning on going away to college at the end of summer. She's a strange type of girl. Different from many of the other girls around town, who have a new boyfriend every week, who smoke cigarettes and drink beer. Angie, on the other hand, has always pretty much kept to herself. She's never dated, and never really thought that much about boys, until she steps into McKnight's drugstore one Friday night, and sees Jack Duluth's crew cut pop over the side of the booth. As he locked eyes with Angie, he smiled, then sat back down again. That was the end. At least that was what Angie thought, but not exactly what ended up happening. Soon the summer that will change Angie's life begins. One full of romance, first kisses, first dates, heartache, separation, etc. with the one and only, Jack Duluth.

I was amazed by this novel. Daly has created such a simple, yet intricately woven story about a seventeen-year-old girl, and the feelings of first love. Angie is a character that girls even today can relate to. The situations, feelings, and thoughts that go through Angie's head, are those that fill the heads of girls today, and will probably continue to fill the heads of girls for years to come. An amazing novel of teen romance that every girl should receive the year that she turns 17.

Erika Sorocco