Bully: A True Story Of High School Revenge
by Jim Schutze
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Bully is a riveting, harrowing account of adolescent rage and bloody revenge-a true crime story from 1993 that inspired the 2001 feature film. Booby Kent was a bully-a steroid-pumped 20-year-old who dominated his peers in their comfortable, middle-class Ft. Lauderdale beach community through psychological, physical and sexual abuse. But on a summer night in 1993, Bobby was lured to the edge of the Florida everglades with a promise of sex and drugs ... and was never seen alive again. The show more tormentor had become the victim in a bizarre and brutal act of vengeance carried out with ruthless efficiency and cold-blooded premeditation by seven of his high school acquaintances-including his lifelong best friend-and instigated by one overweight, underloved teenager who believed her life would be perfect ... if only Bobby Kent were dead. show lessTags
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I didn't really like how the author acted like he knew exactly what was going on. He obviously never spoke with any of the people who were apart of the crime, I think he just went on what he heard. Either way, it's a good read.
This book is horrible. The author obviously got all of his information from the people who planned and killed Bobby. This is a very one-sided story from unreliable sources.
A great read. I really ought to read some of the other stuff by this author.
This is a true story of a high school murder. It focuses on the bully, his girl friend and Marty. This is kind of a love triangle. It is sad but true story that really happened in a high school. Overall an interesting book
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Bully by Larry Clark
Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Bobby Kent; Martin "Marty" Puccio
- Important places
- Weston, Florida, USA
- Important events
- Murder of Bobby Kent
- Related movies
- Bully (2001 | IMDb)
Classifications
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 364.15230975935 — Social sciences Social problems and social services Criminology Criminal offenses Offenses against the person Homicide Murder History, geographic treatment, biography North America Murder in the Southeastern U.S.
- LCC
- HV9067 .H6 .S38 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminal justice administration Penology. Prisons. Corrections The juvenile offender. Juvenile delinquency.
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- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 6
- Rating
- (3.92)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
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