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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Intelligent Coming of Age
Like John Knowles A Seperate Peace, Ripples has two characters who are attracted to each other by what is lacking in themselves. Brenton looks up to Christian because he is sucessful outwardly in every thing he does while Brenton is weak and unable to be a success in his endeavors. The book builds to a climax one summer when the two friends have a showdown over a girl...
Published on September 5, 1999
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Vastly over-rated; skip it.
I picked up this book because of strong excerpts from reviews by ALA Booklist and others. It's a quick read, but still not worth the time. The protagonist begins sounding like an interesting person (page 1), but turns into a flat character who is almost completely passive and unable to choose his own actions or even his own friends (I can't imagine anyone sticking...
Published on July 25, 1999
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Intelligent Coming of Age,
By A Customer
This review is from: Ripples (Paperback)
Like John Knowles A Seperate Peace, Ripples has two characters who are attracted to each other by what is lacking in themselves. Brenton looks up to Christian because he is sucessful outwardly in every thing he does while Brenton is weak and unable to be a success in his endeavors. The book builds to a climax one summer when the two friends have a showdown over a girl. The book is part poetry, part drama, and part parable. A classic.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Vastly over-rated; skip it.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Ripples (Paperback)
I picked up this book because of strong excerpts from reviews by ALA Booklist and others. It's a quick read, but still not worth the time. The protagonist begins sounding like an interesting person (page 1), but turns into a flat character who is almost completely passive and unable to choose his own actions or even his own friends (I can't imagine anyone sticking with Christian the way Brenton does). The main woman character is particularly flat, with virtually no motivation at all. This is not a coming-of-age story worth anyone's attention. Its attempts at emotion fall flat; its attempts at drawing lessons run from banal (the lighthouse analogies; focusing life on your past as one character does; planning an imaginary future as another does) to backwards. (Kids - don't live your life as passively as Brenton; unlike Brenton, choose people you *like* as your friends; unlike Brenton, talk to your best friends well enough to get to know them.) There are lots of good books to read out there. Skip this one.
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Ripples by William Elliott Hazelgrove (Paperback - March 18, 2009)
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