Rule of the Bone : Novel, A

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Summary: Finally someone wrote a book for tenagers
Review: I am 16 and in my junior year of highschool. Usually reading books is a drag but rule of the bone was the first book I couldn't put down. I thought that this book was great. It was great of Russel Banks to write this book.THe story was very original and interesting. the whole idea of a troubled teen who runs away from home and finds a leader who is a complete opposite.a black old rastafarian.

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Summary: A book for all ages
Review: It's about time that someone desided to tell the truth as it is and not just covering the truth for younger viewers like me. I'm a junior in highschool and the rest of my class and i have enjoyed the book more then anything we've ever read before. I think that Chappie represents a part of all the kids out there that are neglected or rejected by there family. The best part of the book is that it is told from a teenager's point of view which makes it very easy to read.

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Summary: a book for the young teenager. a basic look at reality
Review: this book takes a look at the way the youg teen thinks. russel actually makes me belive this is a true story.

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Summary: Explores the problems of teens today.
Review: Excellent reading for every teen. Explores the problems that teenagers face today. Russel Banks did a great job writing like in the voice of a teen. Chappie shows all teens that endurance is the most important character. He survived an abusive home, drugs, and gangs. The most important thing in life is morals and endurance.

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Summary: This book should influence the lives of america's youth
Review: I liked this book because it deals with alot of problems that young people deal with in our society today.Many kids go through the so called "struggle" which deals with the life of living with drunk parents or drug addicted parents.This can also show why kids act the way that they do.

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Summary: This book was down to earth in today's society
Review: I thought this book dealed with real stories that happen to some kids today.I give Russell Banks a great deal of respect for being able to write from a 14 year old's point of view. It's definately a book that you don't want to put down.

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Summary: This book was great!!!!!!
Review: Rule of the bone really was a good book! I loved the way that it was written! It was written in a way that teens could understand it! When I heard about this book I thought it was going to be another boring school book but it turned out to be a really interesting book!

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Summary: presents reality in a persuasive way
Review: This book was very entertaining. It presents real life issues that face teens today. Russel Banks did a great job in writing this book.

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Summary: Wonderfully written, outrageously honest, funny.
Review: The world through the eyes of an unwanted boy, Rule of the Bone is a metaphor for post-modern America and its treatment of those who are thrown onto the junk-heap before they reach adolescence, blighted and alone. Chappie's life in a wrecked school-bus carries powerful symbolism, and his brutal honesty, unmasked by any hypocrisy, makes for hilarious observations about life, love, people and survival. A moving, evocative tale that grips the reader from the opening sentence. Not to be missed

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Summary: Turning shit into gold.
Review: Somehow lured to yet disgusted by the genre of disaffected- and-it's-my-parents'-fault novels (for lack of a more concise term...), I ventured warily into Banks's Rule of the Bone. Hooked immediately by the flatness of the voice--no commas, conversationally distant, colloquial but correct--I found myself almost unable to put the book down until I was completely finished reading it. Bone lives deep within what "we" normals think of as a fringe life, but it doesn't leave him frayed. He experiences depravity yet emerges as a moral, whole person. The novel gives us his life, not a lecture, and we depart knowing someone who observes, thinks, learns--and becomes a man, maybe even a "normal." This was my first experience of Russell Banks, but won't be my last.