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Summary: YAHHOOOO!
Review: I cannot believe how good this book really is.I can't wait for the film,i heard Edward Norton is playing Monty,and Phill Seymore Hoffman is on role for Jakob,while Barry Pepper is playing Frank,cool cast.
Anyway,about the book,i wish it could have been longer i imagin that im reading imaginary pages,all about Frank,i fancy the guy who plays him,but in the end i couldn't believe Frank beats up Monty,ohwell.
BUT I WOULD RECOMEND THIS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER READ A BOOK,IT IS PURE MAGIC!
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Summary: WOW (badly said)
Review: Once i picked up this book,i simply couldn't drop it.Work of pure genius,congratulations Mr Beinniof on such an accomplishment.
Well,monty is a handsome 27-year-old who only wanted to be a fireman,but his dreams all dissapear when he gets caught for drug dealing,HEROINE!
He gets to spend one last night with his highschool buddies:Frank Slattery,a Bond trader who once tried to comit suicide,and really wants to have Naturelle by his side,but rarely sucides.
The other is Jakob Elinsky,a highschool englaish teacher who really wants one of his students.
Well,i love this book,and i would recommend it 2 any1!
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Summary: Very Interesting
Review: Here's a book with a great idea and a great presentation of that idea. About a drug dealer headed for prison, The 25th Hour chronicles his last day, how he meets his friends, goes out for one last hurrah. There's plenty of tension, thoughts about who will be there when he is released, and who won't. The main character has real worries, real emotions, and a great way of delivering them.Highly enjoyable novel that speaks to the reader. I recommend this for all fans of this sort.
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Summary: miffed
Review: A few hours after you read this book, you find yourself picking it up and leafing through it again - irked because you wish you hadn't finished it. You want to turn more pages!!! This is what annoyed me about it. It ended prematurely. Didn't the author feel it did???!!!! The characters were intriguing and on the point of getting more so. Then it ended. Annoying. Further annoyance: the ending was ambiguous (or am I just thick? I hope not). I was unsettled. I kept thinking about the characters. It was all rather uncooked. Result: reader was miffed - nearest translation: 'rather annoyed'). I'm aware this book is going to be made into a film. I can only assume the director (Spike Lee) and the gifted actors involved will enlighten poor old me and maybe others like poor old me - and flesh out the story. Example: I am one who does not know New York (a benighted soul) but I gathered from the opening pages that the author/protagonist was a lover of that city and that the city would feature largely. I thought the last 25 hours might be spent roaming the beloved town and its dangerous night-time streets, encountering its weird and wonderful citizenry, that the night would be very long before the dawn came up over the river Hudson... To me the night seemed truncated, spent in only one club. Sorry. Am left suspended. Can't wait for Mr. Lee's rendition...
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Summary: Good First Novel (Minor Spoilers in Review)
Review: One of the better first novels I have read. The characters are interesting if not fleshed out. If Monty was supposed to be the main character why did we spend so much time with Frank and Jakob? I was more interested in what was going to happen to Jakob and Frank than I was in what was going to happen to Monty. I hope that someday there will be a sequal to this set seven years minus 84 days for good behavior. I would love to see where the characters are after Monty gets out of prison. See if Frank keeps his promise about being there when Monty comes out. See if Jakob is still teaching after what happens between him and Mary. See if Naturelle actually does marry into money as Frank predicts. See if Monty's dad keeps his bar. This book had a lot of potential, and I would be very curious to see where these characters end up next.
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Summary: EXCELLENT!!
Review: The least I can say about this book is wow. I was floored. I couldn't put the book down.
As I read I felt a deep sorrow for each of the characters in the book. None of them were truly bad or good which, in my opinion, is the mark of great writing. No one that I see on a day to day basis can truly be judged in these terms and neither can these characters.
The story centers around three friends one of which has been convicted and sentenced to 7 years in prison.
There is always the feeling that something violent or disastrous is going to happen.
You need to read to see if it does...
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Summary: Astonishing
Review: I picked up The 25th Hour based on the strength of the reviews I read and the sheer number of copies local bookstores were stocking up on. Unfortunately, it say on my "to read" shelf for quite a long time before I finally decided it was time to read. I'm certainly glad I finally picked it up. I can't begin to express how impressed I was with this novel. Taking place during a 25-hour period, the novel presents the story of Monty Brogan, all-around good-looking bad boy who's managed to get himself arrested for drug dealing. And he's headed to jail after one more night of celebration. During the course of the story, we're introduced to his girlfriend and his two best friends. In 210 pages, I felt like I knew these characters, truly understood them. This is no small accomplishment for any writer. The characters are all tragically flawed, especially Monty. But as flawed and pathetic as they are, they're likable and they seem more realistic for all those faults. I go through a lot of books but there are only a few that truly astonish me. This is one of them.
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Summary: OUTSTANDING!
Review: What can i say,this has been added to my top 5 books EVER!
Monty,well you can imagin him as a man that wonders what he done wrong,he was good at it,it got him money,but unfortunately,it was illegal.
So monty has got time to spend one last day with his girlfreind,Natural,His pit-ball,Doyle but most importantly,his two best friends:Frank Slattery and Jacob Elinsky.
Frank is a Bond Trader who considers suicide just seconds before making a 2 million doller profit,he's also after Natural.Although Frank is a bit of a bully,(He is an ex-boxer)he still cares and knows what to do.
Jacob is a High-school English teacher and is after one if his younger students,it always seems that he is trying to do the right thing but it always goes wrong somehow.
My favourite character is frank slattery,because he sounds really cute!
Why people give bad reviews for this book,i dont know,ITS AMAZING,I LOVE IT!
Read it in 5 hours,not bad for an 11 year old ay'!
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Summary: It's worth the read...
Review: Interesting. Funny! I like the way Benioff writes. Such a convincing portrait of the many worlds of NYC. It reads as if Benioff's experienced this story first hand or something. I couldn't put it down actually, because I wanted to see what was going to happen with these guys; Monty, Jakob, Slattery...not to mention Naturelle, Mary, Uncle Blue, Kostya. I?d call this a novella because it took me 25 hours to read it (or less). Very much like a short story, filled with a series of related vignettes. It's basically a glimpse of a man's last day of freedom. Also, a glimpse into the lives of his friends, with whom he spends those last twenty-four hours. For a while I sort of sympathized with Monty; this young man who grew up in NYC, who lost his Mom when he was little, who faced an imminent 7-year prison sentence, who "just wanted to be a fireman." However, in reality, he was a convicted heroin dealer, pretty much cheated on his loyal girlfriend, and basically had a smooth-sailing kind of a life until he got caught. So really it's pointless to sympathize. Even his best friends, though they loved him, felt some resentment towards Monty for getting himself into this predicament. To me, there were maybe three or four stories going on here: What was Monty going to do? What was Jakob Elinsky going to do? (His was a particularly juicy story actually, a teacher lusting after one of his students...), and...what would happen to Doyle the pitbull? And possibly, what made Frank Slattery such a jerk? The ending was surprising. All along I conjured up my own ideas of what Monty would ultimately do, but it turned out to be nothing like what I had in mind. It's actually kind of funny, but also kind of sad. Of course I'm not going to give it away. You?ll have to read for yourself. I'd recommend reading it before the Spike Lee film comes out.
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Summary: A noir Set in the Eighties
Review: The 25th Hour comes highly praised. It's a good read, but those looking for a true crime novel will be disappointed. The author seems to be extrapolating people he knew in high school into the next phase of their lives: wimp into teacher, handsome scholarship boy into drug dealer, best friend into wild-n-crazy bond trader. What makes it rather interesting is that these stock characters went to a fancy NYC private school which seems to have done them no good at all. As a person who once saw the inside of Buckley (which this fictional school resembles), I don't believe it.
Worth reading if you want a dark slice of life from somewhere few have been.
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