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From: Betty Tisel <tiselfar>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:24:56 -0500
Hi CCBC-net friends,
Okay, I haven't read a thing by Cormier, but your comments about Fade made me so curious I decided to read the Reader Reviews on amazon and here's what two younksters have to say ("point of veiw [sic]"). I love how the 14-year-old says that she doesn't think adults would appreciate Fade. I know that now at the middling age of 42 I am less drawn to more disturbing novels
(whether adult or YA), which is a shame, since even into my 30s I read almost every highly-reviewed YA novel that was published.
I think I will delve into my partner's collection of old Cormier paperbacks now though. Thanks for being there, CCBC-net community.
Betty Tisel
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"Fade," From the Point of Veiw of a Young Adult, April 27, 2000 Reviewer: streetpenguin from California, U.S.A I am 14, in the eighth grade, and was assighned to read a book by Robert Cormier for my honors english class. I have read "I Am the Cheese,"
"Tenderness," "In the Middle of the Night," "Frenchtown Summer," "The Bumblebee Flys Anyway," and "The Chocolate War," besides "Fade," the book I decided to do my report on. I thought "Fade" was the most moving book I have ever read by him. I made a link with Paul's desperite feeling of slow isloation, was horrified by Ozzie's horrible acts toward the bum, and definitely identified with Susan's perspective of the book, and what ran through her head when she was reading it. I think it is the best book i have ever read by Cormier. The end of the book had my eyes glued open and my hands clutching the book, along with all sorts of wild thoughts running through my head like, "what if someone really CAN fade? what if i'm not really alone in this room at all?" speaking from the perspective of the age this book was written for, the book "Fade" may start out slow, but it's worth it. Frenchtown and it's people are now real in my mind. In my oppionion, the whole book is a carefully crafted and manuevered masterpeice anyone my age can wonder and connect with. Cormier is the only author I have ever read who can make the most unbelievable, overdone subject in the world breathtakingly real. So if you are thinking of reading or buying the book, I say DO IT! (I dont think adults would appreciate it though, and it would make a wierd gift.) ...
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Wow!, August 12, 2000 Reviewer: Alice from Manchester, England. I'd like to start by saying i'm over 13! I'm 15! But this book was great - I loved it and so did the large number of friends inc. my mum that I recommended it too. Anyway about the book - i have to admit I started to get a bit confused at first but I kept on with it - I couldn't put the book down! (It is now just slightly soggy from when I took it to read in the bath!!!). I can't really say much about it as nothing I said would bring it justice, apart from it IS his best novel so far. Since reading Fade i've read others of his and theyr'e just no comparison (actually Tenderness came close). Anyway it's an absolute must even if you have to get your mum or dad to read it to you!
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Betty Tisel Newsletter Editor Rainbow Families
(612) 827109 betty at rainbowfamilies.org
Rainbow Families 310 East 38th Street, #204 Minneapolis, MN 55409
(612) 827w31
(612) 822?86 FAX connect at rainbowfamilies.org www.rainbowfamilies.org
Rainbow Families provides support, information, and advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents and their children in the Upper Midwest, currently serving over 1500 families. Rainbow Families is working to create a world that is safe, just, and affirming for our children.
Received on Thu 30 Aug 2001 12:24:56 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:24:56 -0500
Hi CCBC-net friends,
Okay, I haven't read a thing by Cormier, but your comments about Fade made me so curious I decided to read the Reader Reviews on amazon and here's what two younksters have to say ("point of veiw [sic]"). I love how the 14-year-old says that she doesn't think adults would appreciate Fade. I know that now at the middling age of 42 I am less drawn to more disturbing novels
(whether adult or YA), which is a shame, since even into my 30s I read almost every highly-reviewed YA novel that was published.
I think I will delve into my partner's collection of old Cormier paperbacks now though. Thanks for being there, CCBC-net community.
Betty Tisel
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"Fade," From the Point of Veiw of a Young Adult, April 27, 2000 Reviewer: streetpenguin from California, U.S.A I am 14, in the eighth grade, and was assighned to read a book by Robert Cormier for my honors english class. I have read "I Am the Cheese,"
"Tenderness," "In the Middle of the Night," "Frenchtown Summer," "The Bumblebee Flys Anyway," and "The Chocolate War," besides "Fade," the book I decided to do my report on. I thought "Fade" was the most moving book I have ever read by him. I made a link with Paul's desperite feeling of slow isloation, was horrified by Ozzie's horrible acts toward the bum, and definitely identified with Susan's perspective of the book, and what ran through her head when she was reading it. I think it is the best book i have ever read by Cormier. The end of the book had my eyes glued open and my hands clutching the book, along with all sorts of wild thoughts running through my head like, "what if someone really CAN fade? what if i'm not really alone in this room at all?" speaking from the perspective of the age this book was written for, the book "Fade" may start out slow, but it's worth it. Frenchtown and it's people are now real in my mind. In my oppionion, the whole book is a carefully crafted and manuevered masterpeice anyone my age can wonder and connect with. Cormier is the only author I have ever read who can make the most unbelievable, overdone subject in the world breathtakingly real. So if you are thinking of reading or buying the book, I say DO IT! (I dont think adults would appreciate it though, and it would make a wierd gift.) ...
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Wow!, August 12, 2000 Reviewer: Alice from Manchester, England. I'd like to start by saying i'm over 13! I'm 15! But this book was great - I loved it and so did the large number of friends inc. my mum that I recommended it too. Anyway about the book - i have to admit I started to get a bit confused at first but I kept on with it - I couldn't put the book down! (It is now just slightly soggy from when I took it to read in the bath!!!). I can't really say much about it as nothing I said would bring it justice, apart from it IS his best novel so far. Since reading Fade i've read others of his and theyr'e just no comparison (actually Tenderness came close). Anyway it's an absolute must even if you have to get your mum or dad to read it to you!
***************************
Betty Tisel Newsletter Editor Rainbow Families
(612) 827109 betty at rainbowfamilies.org
Rainbow Families 310 East 38th Street, #204 Minneapolis, MN 55409
(612) 827w31
(612) 822?86 FAX connect at rainbowfamilies.org www.rainbowfamilies.org
Rainbow Families provides support, information, and advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents and their children in the Upper Midwest, currently serving over 1500 families. Rainbow Families is working to create a world that is safe, just, and affirming for our children.
Received on Thu 30 Aug 2001 12:24:56 PM CDT
