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Summary: Messed Up Life
Review: RATS SAW GOD is a great book. It all starts out when Steve's parents spilt up which means he has to live in two places. Steve lived with his mom and started going weed. He got in trouble by the principal, and his mom. He moved in with his dad in Houston after this. During his highschool life he lives with his mom in San Diego, and his dad in Houston. While in Houston, Steve joins a club called GOD, which stands for the Grace Order of Dadaists. They become the"rebels" of the school. While in this group, Steve makes some new friends, one who eventually he dates. Dub (A.K.A- Wanda), and Steve start to date. This makes the club kind of mad because Dub and Steve would do everything together, and would make there own decions. After GOD makes a presentation at one of their school organizations, the principal calls GOD to the office. He makes them stop the club, and never bring it up again. After all this, Steve and Dub break up, and Steve changes. He eventually goes and lives with his mom again, and meets a new girl, which he eventually dates also. He starts to work at the cinema by his house, which gives him money, but not always a lot. His life becomes better since he moved to San Diego. To find out more about RATS SAW GOD, read the book. This book is great. I think it relates to a kids life that lives in a divorced family, and has to choose which parent to live with. It would be a hard choice to make, but you would have to choose which life is better for you. This book really catches your attention, and makes you think. Even though it talks about drugs, alochol, and sex, it is still a great book.
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Summary: Don't smoke crack before school
Review: I Liked This book. This book is about an 18 year old high schooler. He is missing one english credit and the counselor makes him write a 100 page report on his life in high school. As a freshman and sophmore he went to school in Houston Texas. He meets a young woman named Wanda. Him and Wanda have an intemet relationship. Then his best friend stabbes him in the back and takes her. Then one day he gets up and just like gets in his mint El Comino and like drvies full time to his mamaz house in San Diego. There he gets troubled and nearly droppes out of school. This is an interesting novel. You should only read it in like one sitting so u don't miss or forget anything. This book is not meant to be funny in most parts and crack isn't either.
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Summary: Review for 266 of Rats Saw God
Review: Thomas, Rob. Rats Saw God. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks. 1996. 202p. Steve, an apathetic, unmotivated, pot-smoking senior is on the verge of flunking English when his guidance counselor offers him a way out - 100 typewritten pages on a topic of choice. By accepting the assignment, Steven begins the journey that will help him put his life back on track, understanding and coming to terms with the people in his life. The author's use of first person narrative allows us to see high school through Steve's eyes and feel the highs and lows of each new emotional experience. The story moves between the present and the past through the writing of the paper. Steve's very real issues of divorce, parent rejection, friendship, first love, first sex, drugs, and many others offer a complex character painfully discovering himself along the way. The author slowly unveils Steve's story and in a subtle way, we begin to see Steve heal. The process of writing his story ("write what you know") forces him to relive the good and the bad experiences of his life in Houston and confront his own mistakes. The book is both funny and sad, light and heavy and Steve is someone that most readers will identify with in some respect. The book does contain graphic descriptions of Steve's sexual experiences. The book is current and will be enjoyed by most young adults. Highly recommended for grades 9-12.
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Summary: Steve York - youngster, rebel, dadais - in love.
Review: I actually read the german version of "rats saw god", which has the title "Anti-Club" - this doesn't need any translation. Still, this book is one of the very few that catched me and made me read it through no matter what the time was. Steve York's young life, every happening and every person around him is wonderfully described. Using a tough, direct, but nevertheless pointed and interesting sense of humor, Thomas lets the reader join Steve's World - his dadaist club, Dub, Doug, Rhonda, the astronaut (other people would call him "Steve's Dad"), his little sister Sarah, DeMouy and everyone else around him; all of them have their specific effect on Steve. And "Sky" has an effect on Dub ...
A must-read for everyone that ever asked him- or herself about the perspectives of a youngster; or everyone that wants a book that reflects his or her own rebellic youth.
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Summary: Richview Reader
Review: The only real reason I chose this book was because the cover page was interesting..Its about a young man who has a 100 page essay due on what he knows.My favorite person was Steve York. The reason is because of his optomistic views on life.My favorite part was where he found Dub and his teacher...
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Summary: Amazing
Review: Not unrealistic, not over dramatic. Rats Saw God brings you into the life of Steve York, A high school senior writing a 100 page paper about everything he knows that got him to where he is today. He writes about his astronaut dad, his pretty on the inside girlfriend, and his high school club The Grace Order of Dadists. You wont want to put this book down once you start to read it. Rob Thomas does an awsome job. This book is origional, funny, and tragic. This is my favorite book and i highly recommend it
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Summary: Rats Saw God
Review: I loved Rats Saw God. You write really well and i found it really interesting and inspiring. I never really read many books and we had to do a project on a book of our choice and this book was recomended to me so i desided to read it. I really enjoyed the topics it dealt with and it made me look at life differently. I am still mad at Dub for what she did to him. I think it has to be my favorite book so far and i have already recomended it to a few people. I give this book a 5 star rating.
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Summary: a gorgeous book
Review: I want to know Steve, and after this, you will too. Far and away the greatest book written by amazing author Rob Thomas, this book shows how you can turn you life around just by stepping back and looking at the big picture for a sec. Steve's tale is very funny, very original and heatbreaking. The situations are awsome and novel and the characters are some of the best developed and coolest around. The plot all comes full circle and keeps you wanting more and the ending leaves you feeling satisfied. A lovely, wonderfully written book.
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Summary: This is pretty darn good for a teen life book
Review: I am a teenager and I can't stand most teen life books. I always find they written in ways that manange to either make the teens life to seem to juvenile or just unrealistic and don't really capture how a teenager thinks. I was actualyl able to connect with this. It wasn't my life however im sure there are many people who have similar lives. It really got how and what a teenager thinks about andall sorts of stuff. It even made me laugh at points. It was not too bad
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Summary: In search for meaning
Review: I was assigned this novel for a master's class in teaching the adolescent learner. Thomas writes from the true perspective of a teenager in search of a meaning in his life when things seem hopeless and lost. Steve York displays all the characteristics of a high schooler looking for his identity. Although he protrays himself as a cynic and misfit, York represents all teenagers who simply seek acceptance and a place to fit in. York experiences the highs and lows, including his first love and the battle of appeasing a disappointed father. Through writing, York finds that meaning and is able to mend fences and realize that only you can truly choose the right path for yourself. Steve eventually does that, makes up with his father and uses his intellect for construction and not destruction. This is a solid YA novel that many teenagers should be able to associate with.
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