Books by Matthew Quick
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review 1: I picked up a pre oub edition of this at ALA. It's a YA book, but I found it totally absorbing. Leonard is such a good kid, sensitive and compassionate, but he's been dealt a lousy hand in life and he knows it. The way he chooses to deal with it could have been a tragedy, but ...
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review 1: I liked Boy21 but i thought it could of been better. I thought this mainly because the plot holes throughout the story. I saw this mostly as in the entire story, the main character loves basketball but in the end gives it up. Like in 2 and a half pages, his entire life philosophy...
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review 1: When I started this book I definitely wasn't expecting it to devastate me the way it did. The day I finished it I was going to read only a little bit, as I was really sick and tired and wanted to sleep, but then I got to the plot twist and oh my goodness, I couldn't put it down u...
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review 1: Saw the movie first. Literally cannot get past the first 70 pages. I've tried. It's just written too simplistically. It is too irritating to read. It's easier to watch someone that is troubled than it is to follow their bizarre internal voice. Reminded me of the narrative s...
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review 1: After thinking about this book for a day, I had to go back and change my rating and review. Not that the rating went up much, but parts of the story really stuck out for me. And not the weird parts, because I totally get that (hart-harr- if you read the book). There is a good me...
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review 1: Finn is a very quiet teenager, who is a devoted basketball fan , along with his girlfriend Erin. Erin is one of those spunky, plays harder than most guys type of girl.They live in a very side of Philly but are somewhat protected by Erin's older brother who has shady connections.F...
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review 1: When reading this book, at times I was bawling my eyes out, and at other times I was laughing like a fool. Not many books can achieve that. Although the language that the heroine, Amber Appleton, uses was a little weird at first, I eventually adapted to it. This book was amazing ...
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review 1: OMG I love Matthew Quick. This was another darling, important piece of fiction. Quick has a formula, which some might say is a bad thing--predictable, boring. But I'd liken his work to Wes Anderson's--each time the exploration is rich, discovers new emotional terrain, and the cha...