Seventeenth Summer

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Summary: A touching story of young love
Review: I read this book when I was 14 years old. That was back in 1957. I have never forgotten this tender book. It was part of my youth, I went back to the library so often to reread the book. It always gave me such a warm and wonderful feeling. It only just came to mind after 42 years! I highly recommend reading it for evey young women!

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Summary: Every teen should read Seventeenth Summer!
Review: Seventeenth Summer should be read by every teen because its a 90's realistic book. It made me feel like i was not the only one who had there heart broken over someone moving. Angie never dates but when she finds Jack she's so in love! Jack has soooo many girls dieng to go out with him... well you better read and find out what happens! OH, I loved the part where the go sailing on Jacks boat at night, it was so romantic but if your not the romantic type you should read it n-e-ways. Its more like a best friend, I love, I have to break up with you, he moved, now i will never find n-e-1 that is right for me, kind of book.

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Summary: I ordered it for my teenage daughter...
Review: I read this book during MY seventeenth summer 18 years ago and it gave me such faith in love. So profound the effect it wrought on me that I came looking for it for my own daughter who is coming face to face with first love of her own. A happy, must read for every young girl.

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Summary: great
Review: the book was wonderful. except for some of the references and activities, you'd never know how old it was. i simply adored it, and it will have it's place on my shelf for a long time.

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Summary: A timeless novel which is strangly comforting.
Review: I happened upon this book by accident: I purchased it at a garage sale when I was 17. It is one of the books I love re-reading whenever I find myself at my parent's house. The book is so quaint and quiet that I am filled with a sense of inner peace and my hopelessness regarding love's elusiveness is replaced with the feeling that anything is possible, even now. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who loves stories that manage to transcend time.

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Summary: Great! - It voiced my own thoughts...
Review: Let me put it this way: I bought it yesterday, and I'm going to finish the end tonight. I really like it! Strangely enough I understood myself a lot better after reading most of it because the main charachter feels the same way I do. I told my parents that if they read it they'd understand me much better. I think anyone who wants to understand teenagers better should read this because it's very sweet (oooh... romance) and so interesting.

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Summary: one of the most memrable books in my life
Review: I read this book when I was 16 and I am now 68. It has never left my memory as one of the sweetest books a girl could ever read. I hope to buy one for each of my grandchildren in a few years and am glad it is still published.

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Summary: Attention Please!
Review: The cover and the blurb on this back of this book set you up for a timeless romance. When I bought it, I couldn't wait to get started. After reading only a few pages of the book, I realized that I had made a terrible mistake. This book is COMPLETELY boring. Angie is a shy girl, growing up in the 1940s, that is very niave when it comes to relationships. She is also rude and harsh on the boy that she claims to have "strong feelings about." She completely overreacts when he is having dinner with her family and accidently bumps his spoon against his teeth. What time period did I say this was set in? The 1500s? The book is full of what Angie believes to be bad situations when in reality they were are frivilous. On top of boring plot, all the undeveloped narrator can talk about is nature, nature, nature and how her sisters are fixing their hair. Boring. I would only recommend this book to twelve year old girls: they are old enough to understand the vocabulary and young enough to appreciate the VERY innocent romance.

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Summary: Seventeeth Summer
Review: My boss (at a library) gave me this book to read to make sure it was appropriate for our young adult section. It's very light reading, but I was expecting so much more from all the positive reviews I had read.

The main characters, Angie and Jack, fall in love with eachother after a few weeks of knowing eachother. I found the plot to be a little too contrived... they "fall in love" after a handful of dates, but the story is lacking any intimate moments between the two characters. I feel that the book is more a boring description of how Angie feels she ought to feel about Jack, than about the actual relationship itself. The book was very dull and a lot of parts were uneccesary to the storyline.

I only gave this book 2 stars because it kept me reading to see if anything would ever happen. If you are looking for a light happy teen romance, look elsewhere.

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Summary: Not Chick Lit
Review: Seventeenth Summer really should come with an advisory label or a more classic cover so that readers will know this is essentially a junior literary novel vs. a modern teen romance. Otherwise in terms of judging the book against contemporary situations and values, yes, it might seem uneventful and even boring. However, if you want a study of strong emotions and quiet intensities set in pre-World War II America, this novel is wonderful. Maureen Daly's narrator Angie Morrow has such a subtly sensual way of describing things that she makes small moments, nuances and gestures seem lovely. The description of Fond du Lac and the passing of summer too are extraordinary and heady in detail. I read this book at age 12 and it inspired me to become a writer myself, and I can still see its influence in the novels I've published. The sense of innocence and potential in the story are almost poignant, and while the plot may seem simple, just like with Angie's narration, still waters run deep.