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Scott Blagden

Autor de Dear Life, You Suck

1 Obra 127 Miembros 5 Reseñas

Obras de Scott Blagden

Dear Life, You Suck (2013) 127 copias

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugares de residencia
Massachusetts, USA

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I loved Cricket's voice and his soft spot for the Little Ones. One of my students, who is not a big reader, spurred me to read this book because he really liked it. Now he comes back and wants another book like it and I'm coming up empty, though he took out Son of the Mob.

Cricket Chirpin has spent the last 8 years of his life in the Prison as he calls it, the Naskeag Home for Boys, an orphanage. How he wound up there with the Sisters of Mercy (I think) unfolds slowly as the book progresses. Cricket can't stand to see anyone pick on the Little Ones, the younger boys in the orphanage, and will use his boxing skills to fight anyone who tries. He is suspended from school twice and Mother Mary is at her wits end about what to do with him. He hangs out with a drug dealer and does his share of drugs and drinking but really isn't that bad a guy. He reveals his storytelling skills to the Little Ones and ultimately his English teacher when he writes a letter to life and Ms. Lord questions him in her comments on the paper asking him to be more specific. What starts as a joke response, Dear Life, You suck, becomes something much more to Cricket. A good read for boys but anyone can enjoy this one.… (más)
 
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Dairyqueen84 | 4 reseñas más. | Mar 15, 2022 |
I enjoyed this book, but I would have given it a higher rating if it hadn't had so much sizeist And homophobic language. I have little tolerance for that, especially when it comes from the protagonist.
 
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CrystalDawn1217 | 4 reseñas más. | Sep 19, 2016 |
Full review on Reader's Dialogue:
http://readersdialogue.blogspot.com/2013/04/dear-life-you-suck.html

An achingly honest look at an apparently hopeless existence, Dear Life, You Suck pulled me in right from the first page. Cricket's voice, his irreverent attitudes toward everything in life, are just so compelling. Of course, this all turns out to be posturing and underneath his tough exterior is a little boy, desperate and vulnerable, using sarcasm and smart-alec answers in order to hide his deep hurt and despair. He despairs with good reason, of course. He knows the world is not what the adults make it out to be, that you can't depend on adults or you'll get screwed.

But he sabotages his own happiness time and again, especially with Wynona. Wynona is a lovable character. At first, I felt like I couldn't understand why Cricket was so enamored of her when she was the girlfriend of his biggest enemy, the guy who bullies all his younger "siblings." But as the story goes on, I came to see that Wynona is exactly what Cricket needs. He of course doesn't see things that way, but really Wynona is a large part of why Cricket comes out of the dark dark darkness.

What really makes this book so touching is the way it's told completely from Cricket's point of view and in his own voice, so that we get to see inside his head, with a running commentary on everything that's going on. It means that every emotion he feels is bam! in your face. Everyone else's motivations are seen only through Cricket's view, but somehow we get to understand that not everyone is out to get him. And it means that he presents his own actions in a detached sort of way which only highlights the fact that his actions are heroic.

There is so much more I love about this book. It's a must-read!
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EstherShaindel | 4 reseñas más. | Apr 30, 2013 |
It’s a book I wanted to read because it was semi-religious, and about a boy who’s lost his way. He finds it with all of the people who believe in him. I read this book because I wanted to know how his life sucked and why.
 
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edspicer | 4 reseñas más. | Apr 28, 2013 |

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1
Miembros
127
Popularidad
#158,248
Valoración
3.9
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5
ISBNs
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