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How Beautiful The Ordinary: Twelve Stories Of Identity (2009)

by Michael Cart(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0061154989 (ISBN13: 9780061154980)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

HarperTeen

review 1: How Beautiful The Ordinary isn't your typical story about people with troubled lives. As the description says, twelve stories of identity, it means these are twelve very different lives but with intertwining similarities. As I have read the book, I knew that not every story is for the teens (as I found this in our HS library). I know that this is for the next generation, for the understanding of what situation they're in, but not everyone will find this amusing or touching, but be rather disgusted. But as this is my review of what the story is to me, I find this rather amusing. Not in a funny way, but impressed how terms said in our daily lives can be interpreted as something much quite deeper. As this was my first book on this kind of genre, and it was a success onto my u... morenderstanding of their world, and it made me respect them more.Why 4 out of 5 stars, you ask? Actually it is 4.5 stars, but not 5 stars. It's because of the adult Point of View. The young adults, mostly teens, may get the hidden meaning behind each story, while others may not. As I said earlier, not every book is for everyone.
review 2: This is about a 2.5 star read for me, unfortunately I rounded down because of the content of this book. This book was supposedly written for teens, is actually labeled YA, but three of the stories are NOT geared towards YA in any way, shape, or form. This dissapointed me.Now I had to note the publication date on this and three other works by authors in this book, because the shorts contained in HBTO were novel excerpts from published works. However, due to this being published prior to the novels in question, I will concede that novels may have developed from the stories submitted for HBTO. Unfortunately for me, I had already read the novels.Three stories were exceptional for me; Trev, My Virtual World, and Fingernail. Unfortunately Fingernail is geared towards an older crowd.I would have included; A Word From The Nearly Distant Past, except I already read Two Boys Kissing, and didn't care for the way he wrote it. So the short, I skipped not wanting to be angered again.The final inclusion in this book is so blatently an adult story, it ruined the whole book for me. I couldn't even see where Mr. Maguire was attempting to go with the story, nor the message related to a youth audience.YA should be written for YA, not the adults that read it. Sorry this is an epic fail for me. less

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