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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: Alice has a unique, witty and extremely funny way of looking at everything and anything. Her home town of Smithers BC. Her weirdo parents. The amusing characters inhabiting her life - at school, at her therapy centre, at the new age bookstore. You will laugh loudly and might embarass yourself if you read it in public. This book is sharper and better than the "Princess Diaries" and "Angus Thongs And Full Frontal Snogging". Canadians especially will get a kick out of it, but people of all ages, male or female will enjoy it too.
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Summary: Waste of Time...
Review: Alice, I Think truly started promising, yet dragged on after the first two pages. To give you an idea, Alice starts by ranting on her childhood. Fair enough. However, her first days at school seemed so...unrealistic. The characters were boring and overdone. The first graders talked like they weren't first graders.
But the scene where Alice, at the third page, gets hit by rocks by the other girls because she was different was really when it started going really icky. When her mother contacts the school about the throwing rocks incident, the school gives an apathic answer, but Juby puts it in a way that makes it so unreal. Of course school boards can not care at times, but the scene was tilted in a way that we would pity Alice. In a bad way.
I read on to see if it would get better. It didn't. The characterization got worse and worse. People showed up with no personality. Other reviewers state that they were too "weird", but really, they were just overdone with crappy dialogue. There was no plot, either. Juby simply took some events in Alice's life and attempted miserably to glue it together.
Don't waste your time reading this book. If you're looking for teenage problem-humor-diary format books, Louise Rennison and Meg Cabot are definitely more worth the time.
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Summary: Give this book achance
Review: Alice,i think is a very quirky book.Those who feel that this was not a good book are probably people who prefer light humor and whatever thats cool but this book was hilarious for those that understand its humor.So I would definitly recommend it.
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Summary: greattttt!!!!
Review: Although I had a hard time getting into this book, once I did, I ended up loving it. I thought it was really unique, funny, and surprising, with colorful characters, and an underlying earnestness and morality despite the bizarre goings-on on the surface. I think reading MISS SMITHERS (the sequel) helps (I read both books within a short time period), because you can get a better sense of this writer's style and intention. MISS SMITHERS also has more of a traditional plot, which makes it easier to get into. I really think this author has an original voice and is not afraid to touch on subjects that are topical and/or of interest to teenagers, even though some readers might be put off. I hope she writes more novels.
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Summary: A decent book
Review: Anyone who wasn't satisfied with Alice, I Think should re-read it. I found it quite...odd at first, and would have given it 2 or 3 stars after the first read. However, after re-reading it twice, and reading its sequel, Miss Smithers, I enjoyed it far more. I think it is a book that you need to get used to. The author's style is really something that's an acquired taste.
However, I think that whoever thought the mention of Internet porn was awful...all I have to say is welcome to reality. I am a teenager, and my friend who is younger than I am has read this book without issue. I have seen much worse things in books, and it's simply ridiculous that it wouldn't be appropriate for 16 year olds. (Besides, it WASN'T in great detail!) And anyway, it's a _journal_. I'm aware Alice is fictional, but if that happened, you know, it happened. I keep a journal myself, and I'm sure it's extremely boring at times. I mean, please. This is hardly the height of inappropriate literature. I think this is a grossly misguided idea.
Anyway, sorry for snarkiness. This was a pretty good book.
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Summary: fascinating, humorous, albeit wandering plot
Review: I greatly enjoyed Susan Juby's debut novel "Alice, I Think". I did not put it down from start to finish. Having been home schooled myself by a relatable "hippie" mother for a short period during my elementary years; I found many of the issues to be whole and humorous truths. The plot line was not exactly firm, but as Juby was aiming to portray the diaried life of a teenage girl, we cannot entirely expect her to provide one. The form in which Alice scribed her life was hilarious; the dry humor could be lost on some. The characters were eclectic, and provided much spice to the story. I enjoyed Alice's attempts to become "alternative", trying the replicate her cousin franks hair cut (with disastrous-and then fufilling- consequences), "thrifting", and trying hard to become immune to pop culture, while inadvertently submitting herself to the worst form.
All in all, this was a well-rounded read, with laughs, life lessons, and much more. It is to be avoided if you lack the talent to pick up on dry humor, subtle sarcasm, and a strong sense of reading between the lines for humor not plainly stated. The book is a plain farce, and should be taken as so.
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Summary: No Good!
Review: I honestly didnt like this book. It dragged and took a really long time to get to the main plot!
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Summary: Excellent teen read
Review: I loved this novel and I consider it one of the best young adult novels I've read! The writing is excellent and the story is laugh-out-loud funny. Being able to relate to the weirdness of the main character's life helps. But I think anyone who's known weird people or one who's free time is inordinately littered with literature will enjoy this book.
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Summary: A fine book, I think
Review: I read Alice, I Think and found it to be a fantastic portrayal of how life as a teenager can go awry. I thought it was really funny and particularly enjoyed some of Alice's ways of dealing with difficult and odd situations. Many of the other characters also fascinated me. They were all so eccentric. I didn't grow up in a small town, but I still felt that I could relate to the situations she got herself into. All in all, I thought it was a great book and gave it to many of my friends to read.
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Summary: Alice , I think
Review: I recently read this book , thinking that it would be a great book because I could relate to the charecter , being home-schooled.
Let me tell you it was a lot worse then I expected it to be and I found myslef wishing to reach the end soon. Not becuase it was thrilling but because the book was so slow and , I hate to admit , boring!
It was quite bizzare , I kept wondering if Alice ,the main charecter, had some sort of disorder.She is pulled out of first grade after being teased and totured by fellow classmaes and is homeschooled at home untill her counselor suggests high school.
Throught out her journal Alice has life goals , which wa sinteresting to follow. But other then that this book was a little odd and home-schoolers ( aka home based learners --- according to the book) were potrayted as individuals who dont know how to behave in society.
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