Pay It Forward

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Summary: A novel worth reading...
Review: Pay It Forward, was a very interesting story, it makes you wonder about a lot of different aspects in life. I admire Trevor, he is such an amazing character I think the project he started was a brilliant idea - doing something good for someone and in return that person helps someone else and so it goes on. If the world worked like that in this day and age there would be a lot less problems, it would not solve everything but it might just help in a few cases.

I admired Arlene for looking past Reuben's apperance and getting to know him despite their differences. Reuben was a great help to Trevor. Trevor looked to Reuben as a father-figure and it made him a happier person.

It was good to see that Trevor's effort did not go unnoticed. It was unfortunate that Arlene has to lose her son but he left he world as a hero. :-)

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Summary: Couldn't be better
Review: Pay it forward is a wonderful piece of work. Catherine Ryan Hyde did a marvelous job putting you in the shoes of the characters. The plot is so entertaining, and the idea of changing the world is extraordinary, yet almost applicable to modern times. It would be great to have some people actually try to put it into action in our day. I strongly recommend this book to all levels of readers.

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Summary: Book vs. Movie
Review: Although that's usually true, it is especially so in this case. I actually thought the movie was better, which is rare. The book was also very good, but in a different way. It has the same heart and inspiration as the movie, but it gets a little lost in the side stories. The writing was good, but the storyline jumped from person to person a little too much.

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Summary: A Tear Jerker!
Review: I cried my eyes out! An excellent book! To think in a childs eyes that no matter who you are you are accepted. It is a well written book! Very heartwarming!

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Summary: Good Book
Review: I saw the movie than bought the book and could not put it down.

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Summary: A child makes the world a better place......
Review: Trevor Mckinney uses a school assignment to make the world a better place by doing good for 3 people and then having those 3 people help 3 others each who in turn help 3 others out each until it spreads all over. An excellent book and just the right one to read after all the tragedies with the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The characters Ruben St.Clair and Trevor were so wonderfully written that it seemed like they were real people.
The humor is well done and the way people help others in this novel are touching. Now I have to watch the movie but since Ruben is not in it then I know that it will not be as good as the book.
I will not reveal the ending but it was both happy and sad. I will now "pass it forward" (share the book with friends).

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Summary: Beautiful story
Review: What a great story that shows what simplicity is all about. A kid is given an extra credit assignment:to create an idea to improve the world. He decided to just do what he could and help 3 people and have those people extend themselves and help three more people instead of repaying him. A very simple idea that had massive results. Highly recommend!

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Summary: LOVELY BOOK FROM COVER TO COVER
Review: "Pay It Forward" is a wondeful feat by Ms. Hyde in displaying the worth of the everyday person. A thoughtful idea from an innocent child who has bore emotional pain all his youth comes to light, and gives hope to a nation starved for an answer. "Paying it forward" is the concept of doing a favor, a sacrifice for 3 people regardless of the personal cost. Twelve year old Trevor conceives this plot as an answer to a geography assignment. His odessy of carrying this concept through makes this book hard to put down. We meet a variety of flawed but forging characters; his mother Arlene struggling to stay afloat and sober; a geography teacher scarred by wounds inside and out from Vietnam, and a multitude of others who play into the well designed plot. This is a beautiful book that may be panned by cynics, but for those of us aching for a kinder world this read aspires hope.

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Summary: We can all do something ,let's pay it forward.
Review: Trevor, a 13 year old boy, gets an assignment in his social studies class - to come up with something that can change the world. Trevor gets the idea to ask people to pay forward when a favour is done to them, instead of paying back, and starts hinself by doing something really important for three people. The idea is remarkably good, but as far as Trevor can see nothing happens. He starts with a homeless man, giving him his pay from his paper route so he can buy himself some new clothes and get a job. When this apparently doesn't lead to any paying forward, Trevor helps the old woman next door doing her garden, and when she wants to pay him back all he asks for is that she shall pay it forward by helping three people. Unfortunately the woman dies, and Trevor again has to start from scratch. What he doesn't know is that things are already happening, and without Trevor's knowledge a really huge movement has started.
Trevor, his mother Arlene and his teacher Reuben are people you get to know under their skin, even under Reuben's terrible scarred skin, and you laugh and cry with them througout the book. Being able to cry when you read a book is important, as feelings and the possibilities to show them are something valuable. And being able to take part in a year of Trevor's life gave me alot of opportunities to show tears, tears both of joy and of sorrows. Read this book with me, and let us together make the world a better place to live by paying it forward.

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Summary: Almost the same, but very different
Review: First, you see the movie. Next, you go read the book. Then, you sit down and think about them both and decide if they make sense or not. The book works out better then the movie, that's for sure. And while your reading it, you keep thinking, are you shure this isn't real? Are you sure this is fiction? The book is definatley worth reading. The story is beautiful and creative but to me it seemed like it dragged out a bit to long. (allthough that may be because I was up at midnight finishing it)

If you have seen the movie first, don't think the book will be all that familiar, you're in for a few suprises. If you read the book and are planning to see the movie, don't expect it to happen the way that it was written. Almost the same, but very different. But dosen't that always seem to happen?