Plainsong

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Summary: Review on Plainsong
Review: I read this book and thought that it was a terrific book. It is a direct view into the life of an average person of all ages. Sometimes it made me laugh and some of it made me kind of sad. Coming from a teenager it compares to my life alittle bit. It was very well written and I understood it very well. There is alot of graphic seens in this book and I like that in a novel. I would not suggest this book to anyone younger than the age of sixteen. It expresses nudity and sexual content in this book but it is nothing to go ape over. Darn good book and I would recommend it to all people 16 and up.

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Summary: Plainsong
Review: Plainsong, When I was first given this book I wondered if there were any qualities that would make this book above the rest that I had read. Plainsong is a great book. The book itself brings you into the life modern people in a small town situation. It brings to realality of mordern problems in the United States and through out the world. Victoria is character that is caught up in a serious problem. Haruf brings to life the trials and tribulations of this girls problems. Ike and Bobby are two boys in the town of Holt. Haruf shows how their thought of sex is molded through their society. Through this books explaning of the problems of the modern world the reader can experiance the trials and tribulations of different peoples lives. The reader gets the experiance of living in someone elses shoes.

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Summary: Plainsong
Review: This book is amazing. It shows closely life in a small town. Reading it reminds me of everything that has happened to me in my own life. Having parents who are highly profile I can relate to Ike and Bobby, having everyone watch me closely. Victoria is your normal troubled teen that needs help, and certain people in the town will help them out. Every character in this book is showing the life and profile that people are expecting them to be, such as, having a stereotype and having to keep it on them at all times. Plainsong is a great book if you are curious about small town life or if you live in a small town and want to relate to it in your own life.

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Summary: Holy Hox, This Book Has What It Gots
Review: Kent Haruf has put together an amazing book. Wonderfully well written, with intereasing well-developed characters, and great mini pots intertwined throughout the chaptres. Each chaptre is like a mini story in the book. In which the characters end up intertwining with each other at different parts in the book. He uses many literary elements in his writing. Such as motifs, "ing" pharses, and he uses great detal to paint a picture in the readers mind. He shows how life goes in small town, and the bond that a small town has with each of its town members. The way he the characters in the book make me wonder if he came from a samll colorado town. He knows samll town life all to well. It is a fast read, and it keeps the attation of the readers, with something that relates to you. A novel that feels like a short story. Read it is good for you and don't do drugs.

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Summary: Plainsong on the bubble
Review: At first this book seemed very boring. But as time progressed I felt like I was part of the story. It seemed very sexually graphic at the begginning. The boys were exicted to hear about people having sex, but they felt very sorry for the girl in the story. The author was not afraid to say what he felt. It would be very hard to be the girl that got pregnant. After all the bad things that happened the boys turned out alright.

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Summary: A quick and delightful read!
Review: This story didn't seem very appealing to me when we were first assigned to read it. Once I began reading and got involved in the book, I couldn't put it down. Thick books aren't usually the first things I go for, but this novel is a very quick and delightful read. The author has a way of painting pictures with his words and that is what keeps me interested. I enjoyed reading Plainsong very much and in the future I plan to read more of Kent Haruf's novels. His way of writing is extraordinary and a style I have not seen in a while.

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Summary: Plainsong Reveiw
Review: Our senior English calss was assigned to read Kent Haruf's Plaisnsong. This novel is an exciting, quick read, that deals with real issues the youth of today experiance, such as teen pregnancies, sex, and finding where you belong. The book takes you on an emotional rollar coaster ride, the deeper into it you read. I have not yet finished the book, but it is one of those kinds of books that keeps you wondering, and I can not wait to see what happens next.

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Summary: Not My Style
Review: Whenever you are assigned a book in class you instantly expect to hate the reading. This was true when I was assigned Plainsong in my Senior Contemporary Literature class. Although I will admit I can see why other people enjoy this book. I am more into fantasy, I read mostly Salvatore and Goodkind. When I read a book I enjoy I always get into this zone where I can read page after page and lose track of time, this book did not do that for me. I was weirded out by Haruf's not using quotes. Some people were confused by the switching between the four main characters, I was used to this from my earlier reading. Haruf is an author you must get used to, not jump right into.

The book did hit home on a couple of issues, such as when Victoria was kicked out of her house for being pregnant, this happened to a very good friend of mine a couple of years ago. Ike and Bobby reminded me of my cousin, getting up at the crack of dawn to deliver papers just to help his parents out. This book does deliver when it comes to relating to real life.

Kent Haruf is a good author, don't get me wrong there, he is just not an easy author to be a fan of. This book will probablly become a classic and torment highschool students for years to come, I think it should, due to Haruf's unique writing style. Some people might think this is truly a masterpiece, however, as I said at the beginning, it is simply not my style.

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Summary: Big problems for a little town.
Review: It's a story of despair and a story of hope. It's a story of love and a story of hate. A story of seperation and a story of unity. It's a story of struggles and a story of accomplishments. It's a story of life. A small town of people swirling in the tide of loneliness, finding each other. A pregnant teenager inwhirled into the lives of two old ranchers. Two young brothers tossed in middle of their parents seperation. A troubled teacher intangled with a troubled student. Plainsong takes the simplist troubles of big city and makes them monumental in a small town.

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Summary: Plainsong not a plain book
Review: Although Plainsong comes off as an ordinary book about the life of people in a small world in Colorado I feel it had a deeper meaning in it than the author Kent Haurf meant it too. This story is jammed packed full of symbolic motifs as well as metaphoric symbolism's. I found this book to be very compelling and insightful as a coming of age adult that I can relate and reflect myself too. If it is one thing I learned after reading this novel is that you have to read books on a gray scale not just black and white. After reading this fine piece of literature I can appreciate much more now.