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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Powerful and scary especially for me, since I am a teacher and a parent. A difficult story to read, but I felt it was worth it in the end. (  )taramatchi | Jun 3, 2009 |   This was an enjoyable read, until the last two pages. At the risk of creating a spoiler for those who have not read the book, I was thoroughly disgusted with the ending for Alex Cormier. Alex gets another opportunity to start over and make things right, but Josie does not. (  )MondoLibrarian1977 | May 28, 2009 | A great book - must read for all teachers and students. phales | May 24, 2009 | this book was amazing. It was entertaining through out the whole book and kept the suprises coming. Peter shoots up his high school in a very small town. Everyone is suprised by this and they think he is just getting revenge on all of the people who bullied him through out his life. Jodi Picoult takes the reader on a whirl wind experience as they go through the minds of Peter, his used to be best friend josie, josie's mother alex, Patrick the detective on the case and the lawyer who will be defending peter, as they try to figure out what exactly caused peter to shoot up the school, killing 10 people, and did he act alone? This book was filled with excitement, life lessons and suprises every time I turned the page. (  )Df6b_Taylorw | May 18, 2009 | In the town of Sterling, Peter Houghton is the boy behing the trigger in a school shooting. After wounding many and killing ten students, the town is in disarray. The point of view bounces between Peter and his family, the only true friend he ever had and her mother, his lawyer and the police officer on the case. While a story like this often creates sympathy only for the victims, Picoult shows another side of the issue. Peter himself becomes a victim as you learn of his past. As the story progresses, flashbacks show how the characters have all gotten to the points they are at now, and the trial unfolds to determine Peter's fate. Picoult produces yet another brilliant novel that will have readers unable to put the book down. ( )DF1A_LizzyM | May 15, 2009 | 0.058 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0743496728, Hardcover)Best known for tackling controversial issues through richly told fictional accounts, Jodi Picoult's 14th novel, Nineteen Minutes, deals with the truth and consequences of a smalltown high-school shooting. Set in Sterling, New Hampshire, Picoult offers reads a glimpse of what would cause a 17-year-old to wake up one day, load his backpack with four guns, and kill nine students and one teacher in the span of nineteen minutes. As with any Picoult novel, the answers are never black and white, and it is her exceptional ability to blur the lines between right and wrong that make this author such a captivating storyteller.On Peter Houghton's first day of kindergarten, he watched helplessly as an older boy ripped his lunch box out of his hands and threw it out the window. From that day on, his life was a series of humiliations, from having his pants pulled down in the cafeteria, to being called a freak at every turn. But can endless bullying justify murder? As Picoult attempts to answer this question, she shows us all sides of the equation, from the ruthless jock who loses his ability to speak after being shot in the head, to the mother who both blames and pities herself for producing what most would call a monster. Surrounding Peter's story is that of Josie Cormier, a former friend whose acceptance into the popular crowd hangs on a string that makes it impossible for her to reconcile her beliefs with her actions. At times, Nineteen Minutes can seem tediously stereotypical-- jocks versus nerds, parent versus child, teacher versus student. Part of Picoult's gift is showing us the subtleties of these common dynamics, and the startling effects they often have on the moral landscape. As Peter's mother says at the end of this spellbinding novel, "Everyone would remember Peter for nineteen minutes of his life, but what about the other nine million?" --Gisele Toueg (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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