Books are my life... discussion

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever.

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i loved this book t was really good!!!!
the first time i read it i almost cried!!
the writing is so good like you feel like i dont know but its great i liked it.

ive read it like 3 times. once when i did & the other two for class :p

I've only ever read it once, in grade 7 I think, and I loved it. It's such a great story, and I so did cry when I read it. I think that I'll definietly reread this book sometime. Also this is one of the few books that I also like the movie too, like the book is still quit a bit better, but the movie was definietly good. One of my favourite parts of this book is the poem that was at the end of the book, Nothing Golden Can Stay:
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

ya i read it in 7thh grade too!! (last yearr)
& mmm i liked that poem but my englush teacher killed it this year by asking us what it meant & to write a paragraph of what it means. but ya it is a good poem really deep & it can mean more than one thingg which makes it more creative

Ya that's why I like it. And I hate it when teachers make use analize things, and in english that is all they, it alway ruins the book or what ever.

i know it suckss & then they kindaa kill th ebook too

I know, that's why English is by far my least favourite subject.

English isn't always too bad, at our school instead of analyzing stuff all the time we do creative tasks which are quite fun, apart from that though it does get rather dull.

We do some of that too, but then we have to analyze what we've done.

well it isnt my favorite but i dont hate it.
i lik ewriting & reading (of course)
but i dont like grammer and puntuation and how every word is in 5 groups lolz :p

I'm not big on any kind of writing cause I'm really bad at it.

i am too but th eteacher gives us what to write so we just put it in our own words :p

I wish, but I just tell myself that I'll be finished with english class for the rest of my life after this year :D

haha i wish i could say that

It feels nice to say, but I still have to go through grade 12 english first.

haha just a few more moths when i still have a bit more than 4 more years

Ya that's a little longer than me, but you probably like it more than I do, I really don't like it at all.

haha school isnt that badd lolz

haha. It's a really good book. & she was like 16 when she wrote it!

Really?

mhm & she got it published at 18

That's crazy, I knew that she didn't publish it with her full first name because back than they didn't like books writen by girls. So she made it seem like she was a guy, and they actually thought that the book was writen by a guy for awhile.

i know! i thought that too. but my teacher told me that it was a girl & i was like ohh. lolz but she is a good writer. I've only read two of her books and they are both amazing.

I've only read one.

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I ♥ THE OUTSIDERS!! It made my friend cry like crazy!! :)

I think I cried too, I don't really remember cause I read it when I was in grade seven but I'm pretty sure I did. It was sad :(

loved book !! I'm glad i was forced to read it !!
Movie is a tear jerker, goood movie !!!!!

It definitely is.

i loved many books i have read ::))

Made me cry!

Poor Johnnycake!!!

Sara wrote: "Made me cry!

Poor Johnnycake!!!"

i know it was really sad.

and what Johnny did for thoes kids in the church, so touching!

Sara wrote: "and what Johnny did for thoes kids in the church, so touching!"

it was !!!

I actually liked this book! The movie was kind of boring though /:

I liked the movie, but the book is definitely best.

Yeah!