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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Overall, I thought this was a weird story. It did have its good points as far as literary style, but the content itself was lacking for me. I had a hard time getting past all the vulgarity and sexual connotations. I thought it was rather excessive. The author portrayed the characters well and they were developed throughout the book. The plot line, however, moved very slowly in my opinion. The author used a technique of having the various characters look back and make comments on the events of the book at the beginning of each chapter. After a few of them, I was able to figure out what would happen and they kind of ruined the mystery and suspense for me. Allow, I kept hoping I was wrong about the outcome. If I did not have to read this book for this class, I probably would have stopped reading it. (  )dwinter | Jun 12, 2009 |   I was so impressed with this book. The style of writing, the characters, the suspense. All of it was perfect! This is the kind of teen book that resonates with all age groups for its power and conviction. A definite winner! (  )anniecase | Jun 11, 2009 | This has one of the most throat-grabbing opening paragraphs I've read in awhile, so it's a good thing the rest of the book delivers. It's not really a who-done-it so much as a a why-did-they-do-it: the reader knows from the beginning that the protagonist, Young, and several of his friends murdered Simon Glass, a classmate. A gripping, edge-of-your-seat suspense novel. ( )meggyweg | Mar 7, 2009 | 1  In many ways this is the classic story of the popular kids bullying the geeks, but Simon Glass puts his own spin on his situation. It's not too long before the hunted becomes the hunter and then this book turns on a dime. Gripping and horrific, this story doesn't end until the end. ( )KarriesKorner | Feb 18, 2009 | 1 The characters in this book seem all too real, and the sadnes at the end still haunts me days after finishing. Is a person who does nothing to stop a crime as guilty as the one who strikes the blows? (  )lnommay | Dec 27, 2008 | 1 0.140 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0689858000, Paperback)Fat, clumsy Simon Glass is a textbook geek, and all three of Rob's posse hates him, each for his own reasons. But Rob is driven by the need to prove his power, and so he decrees that they will take on the seemingly impossible task of making Simon popular. They take him shopping for a better look, get his hair styled, teach him how to behave. Rob extracts painful sacrifices and uneasy moral compromises to achieve the goal, but each of his followers has a hidden empty place and a related secret that holds them in bondage to his manipulations. Soon Simon is on his reluctant way to becoming Class Favorite, but then he begins to show a dark, cruel side, and an ability to do what the others can't--defy Rob. The complex interlocking motivations of these five move the story inexorably to a startling bloody catharsis.In an enthralling first novel that evokes William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War, Gail Giles's Shattering Glass employs a brilliantly original structure to layer present and future in an exploration of the consequences of following a charismatic but amoral leader. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:15 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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