The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz

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Summary: Too real or too fake?
Review: Some people never learn, this is a story of one of them. Some may find this books a masterpiece, a child of a genious, but in my personal opinion its "rawness", its fake reality that is represented by the main character only gives you this grim feeling, this grayness of the life that he's living, which not all of us would appreciate. I do not recommend this book to those that like to relate to the main characters in the book because the protagonist of the story is in fact an anti-hero that is not only being sadistic and cruel to those that are close to him, but also does not realize it ad even ignores the facts.
This book, though written in an original style and is easy to read, does not deserve anything but 3 stars for a the reason of being too depressing, this is the same reason why I would never give anything but 4 stars even to such hits as Brave New World. Authors could just put it in better colors...it's possible, you know.

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Summary: A great period story, gutsy, irreverent, self-exposing.
Review: This book is fast paced, vulgar, funny, and human. The world of Duddy Kravitz--an extraordinary Jewish teenager in Montreal in the 1940's--may sound very far removed from our lives, but very few things I have read have struck me as being so irresistably recognisable as life. It would be to deny yourself an immense pleasure not to read this book. Certain chapters are as classic as things we remember from great 19th century literature.

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Summary: An Exilerating Novel
Review: This book is fast paced, vulgar, funny, and human. The world of Duddy Kravitz--an extraordinary Jewish teenager in Montreal in the 1940's--may sound very far removed from our lives, but very few things I have read have struck me as being so irresistably recognisable as life. It would be to deny yourself an immense pleasure not to read this book. Certain chapters are as classic as things we remember from great 19th century literature.