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Crabbe

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at first, i didnt wanna read this book at all. i was forced to by school. but as i got further and further i realized this book was ...amazing. i dont know wen ive read a better book. i think one of the reasons i enjoyed the book so much was that it reaally encourages u too become an individual person and not to live for anybody else, and i know realize that. i may still only be a lost and confused teenager, but thanks to this book i now know to only live for myself, and not to try to reach other peoples expectations but only my own. if u have any spare time at all read this book!!! its amazing, posibly even beyond amazing. i would have gave it more stars if it were posible. william bell did an outstanding job on this book. its ending was awsom, and kept me on my toes the whole time. the begining may not be very interesting, but as u get deeper and deeper into the book, it becomes better and better. the book was fenominal! READ IT!

This is an excellent novel. It can help weak readers understand some more ways to understand novels and stroy lines. I highly advise it to stay in schools. It will help the students that are too lazy to go out to the country and explore how to survive and what possibilities can happen in nature. I also like how that the author made the chapters into journal entries.

This novel was fairly decent:it had an alright plot, it was written somewhat well, and was interesting in most parts. I did not like this novel, however, because i had to read it as a school assignment. I think that because of that, it took all of the pleasure out of the novel, and i didn't have time to appreciate certain things about the novel.
I also did not like the ending of the novel. I felt that it didnt explain well enough what happened to Crabbe.
Overall, this book would definitally be more enjoyable if you were not pressed for time to read it, and then have to do a load of work on it.

Am I the only person here who didn't read this for school? Well anyway...

This book I found created way more intrigue at the very beginning than it actually had in it. Immediately I was curious about why Crabbe had gone missing, where he went, why he refused to tell anybody where he went, why he was missing fingers etc. Later on, I was very appreciative of his motive for leaving town and disappearing, as it seemed a very realistic reason someone his age would cook up, and I had a lot of sympathy for him (as I was about 14 when I read the book). It was, basically, intriguing. I was motivated to read on.

And then I find out that the reason behind his missing fingers, his scars, etc. and none of them were nearly as interesting as I'd hoped. A lot of it just seemed random and didn't really fit in with any kind of moral that the author was delivering, or really had any kind of deeper meaning or reasoning. I was unsatisfied.

Not only that, but the climax of the book just seemed like the author scrambling for something to happen. There was the death of a character that was totally unnecessary to the plot, and basically just there to draw sympathy for the characters. The death wasn't really speculated on afterward (that I can remember) and it didn't need to happen. Basically, this book could have been way better than it was.

Why is it that almost everyone had to read this book for school? Huh? I had to read it too and it was INCREDIBLY BORING. I did not enjoy this book AT ALL. It had a bad plot and alotta swearing(who doesn't swear tho...) But it was somewhat disturbing hearing my teacher swear when reading this book to us. ANYWAY in the beginning I actually had hope but... Something went wrong. Also we had tons of questions for each chapter(VERY annoying). So If you have a choice, I don't recommend you read this book. If you wanna know what it's about, It's about an 18 yr old guy named Crabbe, Franklin Crabbe. He's rich and has good grades but somethings missing. So he secretly and cleverly runs away from home. He almost kills himself falling down a waterfall and is saved by a girl named Mary. He stays with her and she teaches him some valuable things about survival and life... >^,,^<

A wonderful book about a boy named Crabbe who is searching for his identity. All of his life, he has been told what to do and where he will be going and doing. He has never had to make any decisions for himself. Life has been easy for him, in that he has always been provided for by his family. When Crabbe decides that this is the life that he no longer wants to live, he leaves home and the book follows his journey through Algonquin Park. I feel that many teens can relate to this story because many face identity problems, not having any concrete goals as of yet. The story allows you to get involved with the two main characters. Empathy is developed throughout. Besides the adventure, the story has its sad and happy parts. All in all a very good book. Both girls and boys will enjoy the story.