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Outside Providence

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i saw the movie like a year ago and it became one of my favorite ever since. i didn't figure out that it was a book until a couple months ago (yeah, im stupid) and i wasn't at all disappointed with the book. i did enjoy it, but there were parts in the movie that i thought were hilarious and became attached to (i guess you could say that) but then they werent in the book. they werent necessary parts, so i guess it didnt matter. another thing is that i saw the movie and only viewed it as good entertainment whereas the book i think has some meaning but i didnt catch it cuz i was just trying to be entertained and had it set in my mind that it was just supposed to be funny. still...i recommend reading the book and seeing the movie (in that order) they were both well worth my time.

Despite the small size of the book, and the author, who has written such funny, but notably stupid movies as Dumb and Dumber, and There's something about Mary, this book effected me like no other has. i am a sophmore in high school, and my dream was always to move to arizona, much like Tim Dunphy. this book has completely changed me. my previous favorite book was IT by stephen king, and despite the 800 page difference i would have to say that i have a new favorite. for some reason i simply clicked with this book, i was the main character, and so many of his problems were so relatable, i highly recomend this to any adolescent who is looking for a good easy read, or looking for any kind of read at all. i read it in two days, and it's messages are something i will never forget. Amazing is the only word i can use to describe Outside Providence

This entertaining book shows a contrast of two very different worlds: the hard life of the suburban Rhode Island blue-collar world, and the blessed life in a New England prep school (although as we find out, it's not so blessed).

As a prep-school graduate myself, I had a lot to relate to in this book. It did read like a screen play, but a very good one with interesting characters and honest humor.

I thoroughly recommend this book. It made me laugh and cry, but oh how it made me laugh.

If you don't read this and laugh you must be dead!

It should remind you of how you looked at life as a teenager.

There are so many books and movies about prep school life, but Outside Providence is by far the best. It is a wonderful exaggeration of what life is like coming from a lower class background and jumping into the strange and unique world of prep school. I have never read such an honest book in my life and I think that every person who goes to prep school should read this book. It puts things into prospective. Since I am a prep school kid, I can relate so easily to everything that Farrelly writes. I'm not so sure how much people outside of the prep school world would enjoy this book, but I don't see how anyone wouldn't!

this book is a great book that rightfully deserves the production into a movie. i can't wait till the movie comes out. i have also read farrelly's comedy writer and believe that both are terrific. outside providence was able to show how teenagers feel and what they do. it sort of reminded me of dazed and confused. i recommend this book to anyone and everyone. but now i can't find a book that fits my raised standards since i have read this book.

After reading the Comedy Writer I was eager to read Outside Providence and found it just as good, if not better. Though not for everyone, this book made me laugh and think.

peter farrely has done it all, a great book (outside providence) three absolutely hilarious films, and a great thinker. i would reccomend this to any one. I have to agree this is as good as the comedy writer.

Peter Farrelly has already commented that this book was not his best work and that he had a obsession with death in the novel. This is very true, as many loose ends are tied up with gruesome deaths and odd plot switches. However what I have read of the screenplay version,directed by Michael Corrente of Federal Hill and American Buffalo fame,looked more promising. At least more logical and less immature (yes, it is safe to say that Peter Farrelly has matured).

Although this book is by the director of "Dumb & Dumber" & "Kingpin", which were funny in a rather juvenile fashion, "Outside Providence" is a moving, heartfelt, semi-autobiographical first novel. The novel chronicles the coming-of-age of Tim Dunphy, an poor Irish high school student from Pawtucket, RI. When his father ships him off to a private school in New England, his personal journey of love, discovery and betrayal begins.