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About David

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This book is great book because it gets you to feel like your best friend has just died. She has to deal with everyone at school and herself. This book is for ages 11-16.

It is about a girl named Lynn whose best friend, David, kills his parents then himself. She just shuts down after it happens. She can't remember what they talked about the day he did it. She can't sit in the cafeteria or ride her bike past his house. She also has to see a shrink, named Dr. Collins. She must adjust to life without David.

Will she ever get over David? Just read the book "About David."

An excellent suspense novel, About David deals with teens in the 90's coping with a close friend's suicide. Lynn, the main character, has just lost her long time best friend due to suicide. Horrible as this is , more terrible is that he not only killed himself, he also murdered his parents. Jeffery, close friend of David, cannot cope with all the pressure in school, all the rumors, and his only friend's death. He has a nervous breakdown. The school is in chaos; newspaper reports spread fake rumors. Lynn is terribly saddened. Luckily she has her friend Steffi, parents, and shrink, Dr. Collins, to help her feel better. The best part of this novel is when David's notebook and diaries are suddenly found in Lynn's attic. She has to read them through and find out why David actully killed himself.

I personally enjoyed reading this novel; it caught my attention. It's an easy to understand novel, with interesting problems going on. It's clear and very exciting to read. Read it , I recommend it!.

I liked this book because it was exciting and you didn't know what was going to happen next in the story.

This story is about a girl named Lynn who knew a boy named David who killed himself and his parents. She is doing everything to figure out why he killed them. Then when she finds out David had kept a diary or a journal she looks everywhere to find it. When she does find it does she really want to find out why David had killed his mom and dad?

I think someone who would like this book is someone who likes suspense books.

If I could give this book less than I star I would.I had read this book many years ago in my early teens and for reasons I can longer understand, remembered it fondly.
A while ago I found it on sale online cheaply.

I was appalled at what I read this time around. David's parents were shallow bitches who spent his whole life making him feel unworthy and inadequate in every possible way.

Its perfectly understandable as to why he killed them.

But they weren't the only bitches in the book.Almost everyone in the book was selfish, shallow and self centered. And a bitch.

Right on down from the narrator Lynn's(who was supposedly David's oldest and closest friend) parents to her "best" friend Steffie to many of their classmates.

At first I felt sorry for Lynn being surrounded by such shallow people.

I began to lose respect for Lynn when after Steffie was very cruel to her about the tragedy at a party not even 3 months after, she went crawling back to her begging for her forgiveness and friendship.

If Steffi had done that to me, I'd have kicked her in the face. Finally, towards the end of the book I realized that Lynn was nearly as shallow as everyone else she was surrounded with. She was her environment, not just a reflection of it.

I understand that modern society has greatly shortened the grieving process but in real life I don't think that if a true friend of yours died in such a tragedy that just a few months later you'd be so eagerly looking forward to college,career, moving on and whatever lay ahead.

If you could , then I'd suggest that the person who died wasn't as close of a friend and didn't mean as much to you as you thought.

I understand that people eventually have to go on with life after any loss or tragedy and I'm not criticizing that in itself but to be able to move on so quickly says something in itself I believe.

In closing,even though Lynn disparaged David's actions as "crazy" at the end of the book, I understand perfectly why he did what he did.In my opinion, he was driven to it by the mental abuse he received from his adoptive parents all his life.
The people surrounding him were just lucky that he didn't totally snap and take out more people other than just himself and his adoptive parents.
What he did wasn't right in any way of course, but it was understandable.

In the end, the only person I felt sympathy for was David himself.

The author pulls no punches in this novel, and it takes you right where it says it's going to. Nobody wants to talk about teenagers and guns, especially not when the result ends with a suicide and murdered parents, but the thing is, teenagers do think about these things. Pfeffer is amazing at putting you inside a character's head and then turning the gears, and readers are left with the feeling that it isn't just a story that's unfolding: it's a journey that somehow we all have a place in. Granted, it's not a happy journey, but it is an important one, and if you are expecting everything to wrap up in a nice, neat package, let me warn you. This book isn't any neater than life itself. Don't expect answers. It's more about the questions we, as human beings, should be asking.

Lynn handled things as I would have handled them Reading the story really took me right into the story with Lynn as she tried to understand why David had doen what he did. Her devastation led her to fall apart. Her relationship with David never went away but the fact that he was gone made her realize that he wasn't going to come back. Her last dream of David let her know that he was at peace for once.

Hi! I am a 15 1/2 year old girl! I felt deeply for Lynn. She remined me that you should cherish your friendships and love your parent. David was a troulbed boy because his parent treated him badly and pushed him way to far! Being a kid myself I understand that all we want to do is please our parents but sometimes they just will push us to far and to our limits. Like David most kids want to be the only child and i was sure he was just jelous but that is no reason to going around killing your parents. If david did not want Lorraine to have anymore kids and treat the new born the way they were treating him he could have went to a foster care agency or somewhere else where they can help with those kind of problems. I understand what is like to be a foster child but I as well was adopted like David.... But what I do when my parents are pushing me to much or annoying me to much i let them know. I don't run away to another family and hide out or go to some place I will think they would never look. It was more troubling for lynn to found out david let all of his secrets to her. That broght a great deal of pain by the end of the novel. The novel ends up letting Lynn act like a normal teenager but to be a little more reserved than she would have been. Bill was a great influence on her becoming a normal teenager.