The Yearling

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Summary: IF YOUR UNDER 1000 YEARS OLD, THIS BOOK WILL SUCK TO YOU!!!
Review: THIS book is the most worthless, boring, slow-reading book I have ever been forced to read. I highly disapprove of it being required High School time-waste book. DONT BUY THIS EVER SO WORTHLESS BOOK!!!

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Summary: The best book I've ever read in my life!
Review: A beautiful, touching book about a young boy and a yearling.I'm a South Korean who loves books... and this book is absolutely thebest book I've ever read! I'm not surprised that this is the winner of the Purlizer Prize... I'm crazy about this book. I cried so much when I came to an end... half because I was sorry that Flag had died, and half because Jody's beautiful childhood has ended. And so touching it is! It kind of tells you how much love a young boy gave to a yearling. He understood it and loved it. Finally, I think this is exactly the right book for all of the people, even for adults it's not so childish-- it'll make you remember the times when you were young and golden!

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Summary: Slow, but a good moral
Review: I think that this book is very slow and confusing. I am being forced to read this in the 7th grade. I guess it has a good moral of getting through a lot of hard choices in life and I wouldn't recomend this to many people.

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Summary: This is perhaps the most boaring book I have ever read.
Review: I had to read this book for school. The story that is there is good, but way too discriptive. It would have made a good short story, not a loooooong novel. The whole first page is about a cloud of smoke. This book is incredibly overrated. Anyone who wants to read this book, don't. Read Where the Red Fern Grows instead. It has the same theme/moral/whatever, is much more exciting, and dosen't drag you kicking and screaming through page after page of describing pansies and trees.

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Summary: Not a point to the whole book. WASTE OF TIME
Review: I really hated this book. The first half of the book has no point and the second has no point either. I would not reccomend this book to anyone. In the book, the boy talks like a hic and they are extremely uncivilized for 1920. They had electric guitars back then!!!

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Summary: One of the all time great books.
Review: I first read this book over forty years ago and have never forgotten it. This Christmas I plan to give my ten year old grandson "The Yearling" and quietly say thank you to my own grandfather who first handed me this treasure many years ago.

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Summary: The book The Yearling is a very interesting book.
Review: The book The Yearling is a very interesting book. It tells of hardships and of family value. I recomend this book to eveyone.

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Summary: one of my favorites
Review: The Yearling is one of my favorite books. I just finished reading it for the fourth time. The first time I read it was in 7th grade. Then 8th, 9th, and now finally 10th grade. 5 stars absolutely.

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Summary: A story children are not apt to understand without guidance
Review: I just finished reading this novel to my nine year old daughter and am amazed it was in the children's section at my local library. It is a book for adults. I am a voracious reader and would certainly put it among my top 100 novels. I was able to explain the significance of what was happening to my daughter as we went along and although this stretched out the time it took us for it's completion, it worked out as a very rewarding experience for us both. I do not think this book should be forced on children to read, it's over most of there heads and could turn them off to reading the classics when they mature. Moby Dick has destroyed many the want to read from forced exposure (I myself loved it, but did not pick it up until my thirties)

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Summary: Bittersweet, but Pointless at Times
Review: I found this book to be very slow going. The first half of the book is pointless. It sports an universal theme but the reader must be very patient to find out what that theme is. I had to read it for school and I am thinking that it is definitely a book for adults. Most kids just don't have the patience.