Property of

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Summary: This book echos in your mind years after reading it!!!
Review: It is not very often that I find a book that leaves me wanting more. I lost myself in Hoffman's words and the world she created. This is by far one of the top books I have ever, and most likely will ever, read.

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Summary: A Promising Start for a Phenomenal Writer
Review: Oprah got me started on Alice Hoffman's books with "Here on Earth." After that one I had to read more. Ms. Hoffman is an extraordinarily gifted writer...she makes me so jealous! After much searching I finally borrowed "Property Of" from the library. Although not my favorite--at her best, her work is light, lyrical, and startling--"Property Of" is still absorbing. I can see the foundations from which her talent has grown, both in her style and vision as well as her insightful, realistic portrayal of the narrator's motivations and psyche. Hoffman's characters are real. "Property Of" left me feeling obsessed, gritty, and ultimately, stronger, just as the main character must've felt as she traced her (secret) name on the train window. Read everything you can find by Alice Hoffman!

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Summary: Being Wanted
Review: Property of is a book about drugs, love, scandals, and fitting in. It is an excellent book written by Alice Hoffman. She is my favorite author. I am never let down when I pick a book to read by her. Property of is about a girl who wants McKay, the leader of the pack on the avenue. She will do anything to get him to love her. She will lie for him, do drugs for him, or anything just to be around him. She loves McKay so much. She doesn't belong to him though. She belongs to no one. When McKay starts doing heroine and can't stop, will she know what's best for her? Will she still want to love McKay? The book will make you see how someone can really be in love to dedicate themselves to a person. It is a great book that is worth reading. Once I started to read it, I couldn't put it down.

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Summary: Being Wanted
Review: Property of is a book about drugs, love, scandals, and fitting in. It is an excellent book written by Alice Hoffman. She is my favorite author. I am never let down when I pick a book to read by her. Property of is about a girl who wants McKay, the leader of the pack on the avenue. She will do anything to get him to love her. She will lie for him, do drugs for him, or anything just to be around him. She loves McKay so much. She doesn't belong to him though. She belongs to no one. When McKay starts doing heroine and can't stop, will she know what's best for her? Will she still want to love McKay? The book will make you see how someone can really be in love to dedicate themselves to a person. It is a great book that is worth reading. Once I started to read it, I couldn't put it down.

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Summary: it's not all about the gang relations
Review: reading the back of this book does not in anyway convey the kind of emotion that is displayed in teh writing itself. teh back my state that it is about a girl and her adventures with a gang, and that is true, but it is also about what she realizes about herself as she realizes that this tough and powerful gang in her imagination is not what she finds in the gang, the orphans.while becoming the leader's property she learns the truth about the gang by watching all of the hardships of it. while, not many readers may identify with all of the actual events of the novel, the emotions, and thoughts that jump off the pages are enough to make a reader look again inside themselves at what they really want. a wonderful book, full of hard honesty, and beautiful realization about the world that it our life.

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Summary: This book was very disappointing.
Review: Sorry Alice, you are my favorite author but this is the worst book you have ever written! This book is basically about a post Vietnam war gangster scene and a girl who will do anything to belong. However, not only was the portrayal of violence swayed toward dark comedy. Many questions were left unanswered. Consequently, the scene is drab and never changes and always refers to the street or the gangster's club house. I wanted more! I wanted to know who the main character's family was, and who MckKay really was. This book was very disappointing and although I love Alice Hoffman's books I would have to say you are better off to skip this one.

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Summary: One of my Favorites!
Review: The only books I've read by Alice Hoffman are 'Property Of' and 'Practical Magic'. I hope they never make a movie of 'Property Of', thereby ruining it. Potential Readers: Try and ignore the naysayers. Why pick apart things you don't like when all the things put together make the novel what Ms. Hoffman intended it to be? True, heroin and gangs suck in real life. Just because you might never have wanted to belong so badly doesn't make the book a bad one. I still have my original copy from 78? 79? and it's coming apart. I'm buying another copy because I want to pass this one on...This is a great book. Dark, yes, depressing at times, yes. But very realistic to falling in love with a guy who doesn't know what love is.

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Summary: SKIP THIS BOOK!
Review: There is nobody you can like in this book. The narrator is a stupid girl who is a gang deb wannabe. Any woman who would want to be demeaned and treated and called "Property" has serious problems. Although this book will hold your attention, it still is a disappointment and the characters are pathetic. Skip this book. Alice Hoffman has written good books, but this one is the exception.

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Summary: I like this book
Review: THis is the first of her books that i read and i haven't read any other yet but i liked this book. it told the real story of gangs and stuff. i wouldn't expect this author to know much about this topic but she did a really fine job. i give it two thumbs up.

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Summary: Semi Good Book
Review: This was a semi-good book. It just seemed the main character in was a little obsessed and aggravating. She was so klingy and annoying and it annoyed me slightly to see such a pathetic girl such as herself. But all in all the story and the plot were ok.