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I loved this book. I could not put it down once I began reading it. Perhaps it’s because I’m rapidly approaching the age where I could end up in a nursing home myself, but that part of the book fascinated me. It’s from the perspective of a 93-year-old man in a nursing home. It rang true. I was touched by the nurse who treated him like a person, who explained things to him, and cried with him when his family failed to show up to take him to the larger-than-life event he had looked forward to throughout the book–the circus. It made me think back over the experiences with our own parents and wish I could go back and do things differently.

The other part of the book, the flashbacks into this man’s history were fast-paced and exciting. I immediately sympathized when, as a young man, he lost his parents and found himself alone in the world, and understood his running away from it all. Maybe I question the believability of one or two points while he traveled with the circus, but not enough that it marred my enjoyment of the book. I simply took it as an indication of how much things have changed in this country over time. What would not fly now might have at one time. It opened my eyes to how easy it is to become absorbed into any society (even the world of a traveling circus) and how to survive, a person must abide by rules they might otherwise never consider. The book showed the higher and baser aspects of human nature, all of which I found easily believable. The world is filled with people who have differing stories and problems. We don’t all behave the same or believe the same, but we do conform to the ethics of our individual worlds–good or bad. I believe the author demonstrated that beautifully.

I read some of the other reviews, and was saddened that some people couldn’t see past the imperfections and simply enjoy the different facets of the story. It’s a good one.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good read.
Pony In My Pocket

Don’t get me wrong. I love my Garmin 305 Forerunner, but I bought it instead of the 205 for the HRM. It’s SOOOOOOOOOOOOO tiny that it’s almost impossible to see, even standing still, let alone running.
Honeywell Triple Action Permanent

I got my Kindle earlier this year and have enjoyed it greatly! I am an avid reader and love my books but the adjustment and getting used to the Kindle was easy. Wish I had not waited so long!
The Second Death And

there is obvious confusion abounding in the world today. If people would simply read their Bible, asking God for His illumination on their reading, they would know who He is. this book is not the voice of God, but of a confused individual. don’t buy it.
CANON VIXIA HF S20

Radio homemaker programming Old

New condo in LA…yellow carpet throughout…(ok, autumn gold) big dog, fat cat and two senior citizens…lots of traffic…6 grandkids running through..the only thing that has saved my sanity, their lives and our marriage: one big ole Hoover SteamVac with clean surge…F5914-900…….
Nothing But the Truth

To be frank, I am enjoying the MS Office Home & Student 2007. This version is so sophisticated that I sometimes find it difficult to use. As for the Onenote, to be honest I don’t known it yet properly. I found it very useful for higer eduction student.
CCNP 2 0 Building

Got my son two of the Nerf dart guns that hold 30 or so darts in the rifle form. Lots of fun but easy to lose the darts in and around foliage. Worth getting the refill pack.
Nerf Mega Dart Tag

Just purchased a wheel and this book will help me with the how-to in using it.
Wheel Thrown Pottery DIY

Maybe this story has simply become dated over the years because it didn’t have the impact on me that I expected. This certainly isn’t on the level of Huck Finn, To Kill A Mockingbird, Life of Pi, nor even The Tale Of Depereaux, but it is different than anything else I’ve read. Perhaps the appeal of this book is that it’s written from the perspective of a teenager, in stylized teenaged writing, about teenaged issues. This could be one of those books that appeals more to a specific audience of those going through puberty than it does to the general reader. Still, Holden Caulfield seems like more of a whiner than a cynical adolescent to me.

Reading this book is like being stuck in an elevator with a sixteen year old boy for the duration. It might make for a good psychological study of that particular insanity that teenagers go through as their brains develop in the presence of an overdose of hormones, but as a story it lacks a plot. This is about a kid wandering aimlessly through his life, such as it is, both literally and existentially. It could theoretically give aid and comfort to those teens in a similar situation, but I can’t imagine it helping me much when I was that age. The main character is supposed to be a young radical, smoking and drinking despite being underage, but it all seems much too tame in these modern times.

I suppose that the moral of the story is supposed to be that everyone undergoes these psychotic teenage episodes, even the preppies. However, this point is made in a monotonous, rather repetitious and boring manner as our young angster wanders about NYC looking to rutt, having just been kicked out of yet another fancy boarding school. If the rich kids have these same problems then maybe we should all stop feeling sorry for ourselves and think about poor Richard Cory. It’s all just a little too ham-handed for me and it really bothers those kids who really were cool and all to have to listen to those who just think they are. Sometim
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