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Pigeon English (2011)

by Stephen Kelman(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0547500602 (ISBN13: 9780547500607)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: This book explores the issue of gangs in the poorer regions of England. I thought that it was well written and I found it a fairly easy read. To me its purpose was to adress the issue of gangs, and I think it did a very good job of that. Because I have never really been in contact with gangs etc. It was hard for me to connect with the book, and I found it pretty boring. I don't think that I would recommend this book to anyone above about the age of 11. Overall a well written book, but I dont think this book was targeted to me.
review 2: I enjoyed this sad, emotional book and at times laugh out loud funny lines. The author captured Harri's youthful naivety very well as he enters a world of gang culture and violence. I won't spoil the end for those who haven't r... moreead it but just to say once you find out the background of this book it made the whole thing more real and made you look at the book in a whole different way. My only critique of the book are the paragraphs written from the pigeons perspective which I thought interrupted the flow of the book. My thoughts are that maybe the pigeon was Harri's guardian angel and his conversations with the pigeon quite nicely laced in but solely the pigeon paragraphs...maybe not so. less

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