Skipped Parts

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Summary: Don't Skip this one
Review: This first installment of the GroVont trilogy,is a work of art by itself, but don't stop at the end of this one. Capturing teenage angst, first love, family pathology, and small town America, Sandlin weaves a complicated but engaging tale. Sam Callahan, a semi-normal teenager despite his immature and alcolic mother, goes looking for freindship in a new town, far from his native N. Carolina in so many ways, and finds Maurey Pierce, smart, sassy, funny, and beautiful. Together they embark on an adventure including sexual experimentation, heartbreak, humor, and things they never bargained for. These characters are so real you can hear them breathing. I'm hooked on Sandlin, and am glad he kept this tale going for two more books.

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Summary: Great American novel
Review: This is destined to be a classic, to be studied and cherished over and over. The writing is superb, the characters are really characters. I like two little tiny parts because they bring the whole together. "Skipped Parts" refers to the sex that other books leave out, or skip. This one doesn't skip that part, but talks about sex through innocent eyes in a great, funny way.

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Summary: Hilarious
Review: This is one of my favorite books and I give it as a gift often. Incredibly funny dialogue and indelible characters in a unique setting. You fall in love with these people and can't help but complete the trilogy. I have often thought of Tim Sandlin's offer on the author's page to stop by his place in Jackson Hole. Some day I will.

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Summary: Beautiful! Here's Why:
Review: This is the first installment of the Gro-Vont Trilogy (however, a fourth book will be written soon) by Tim Sandlin. Tim hails from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Which is where this book takes place. Oh my lord... this is a beautiful book. Sandlin paints wonderful pictures through the eyes of 13 year old Sam Callahan. Sam journeys through GroVont as a import from North Carolina with a 28 year old chain smoking, drunkard mother, Lydia, who has the best intentions. Sam is the coming-of-age hero of the novel. At 13 and bored in Wyoming him and his new sidekick, the beautiful, Maurey adventure into experimentations with getting to know each other in the biblical sense and get into much trouble along the way. Sandlin's writing is picturesque. Not since Salinger have I seen such a clear picture when reading a novel. I've read this book about 6 times and I get better and better each time using all of my senses when reading. Sandlin invites you to hear and smell and see and feel both physically and emotionally everything that goes on in his novels. I suggest that everyone read this novel and get hooked. I swear you never want Sandlin's books to come to an end. Another Amazon quick-pick I recommend is THE LOSERS CLUB by Richard Perez

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Summary: THE BEST BOOK EVER!
Review: This was the first Tim Sandlin novel I read--and my favorite! I have since read all of his books and each one is outstanding! He has a style unlike any other--the stories absolutely unbelievable, the characters so real you want to meet them and be their friend! I can't say enough about this wonderful book--except I hope Tim Sandlin will write another one soon!

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Summary: Amazing Reading!
Review: Tim Sandlin does a wonderful job making his characters come alive; you almost feel as if you have known them all your life! Skipped parts was perfectly real... the characters' idiosyncracies are delightful! 1

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Summary: You have not livede until you have read these books
Review: Tim Sandlin is amazing. I picked up Social Blunders at the airport on my way to England, read it on the plane, and as soon as I landed, I was begging my friend to fedX me Sorrow Floats and Skipped Parts. Why Hollywood has not been beating down his door with million dollar offers is beyond me (Okay so the sex is a little graphic, but still...). These books capture all the elements of life, and what makes it worth living. The characters are so great, he makes you love all of them. They embody elements of everyone's personality. Everyone has a little Sam in them, naive and wanting to please everyone; Lydia, self-destructive and lovingly sarcastic; Hank, reflective and devoted; and Maurey, wild and stubborn. These are some of the best books you will ever read, and defenitely ones you will never forget. After reading these, try Sex and Sunsets, its his first novel, and almost as good.

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Summary: Amazingly real and touching
Review: Tim Sandlin paints a portrait of growing up the way it REALLY is... scary, hysterical, and full of surprises. I felt so incredibly moved. I've never actually laughed out-loud while reading before... You rarely see such honesty and beauty in literature. We should all remember our young adulthoods with such poignant clarity!

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Summary: page turn
Review: Tim Sandlins SKIPPED PARTS will have you wanting more and will keep you turning the pages. I never wanted the book to end. The book is sad and laugh out loud funny.

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Summary: Tim Sandlin is the writer we've all been sick waiting for.
Review: With all the hoopla over who will be this generation's great writer, the tug-of-war between pop-culture papsmith Douglas Coupland and "out-there" gimmick writer Tom Robbins, Tim Sandlin has snuck by the shouting match and slipped a series of masterpieces under our collective literary nose. "Skipped Parts" is not a re-tread of the juvi-angst we were doused with by Sallinger. It's a whole new spin on the outsider motif. His books are replete with the sad story characters who know how to use pain to inflict humor and vice versa. "Skipped Parts" is the lion's roar. "Sorrow Floats" and "Social Blunders" are none to silent echoes of it. All three deserve your immediate attention.