conuly

It really tries my faith sometimes. I mean, it would if I had any.

Speak

Ok maybe because i was forced by my english teacher to read this book, it shafted my view, but this is seriously the most awful book i have ever read. Melinda is a depressed freshman, and doesnt know how to deal with it. she thinks about suicide and constantally dis's other people at her school. Yes she did get raped, but other people have gotten raped and delt with it in other ways than that.

Gee, you're nice. Oh, she was raped, she should just suck it up!

This Book was a book that I could not even finish! It was too descriptive and had terrible language. I can not believe that any YOUNG ADULT should be reading it.

Note she says YOUNG ADULT. She doesn't say "child" or "teen", she says young adult. In capitals. A young adult is, if not yet an adult, very nearly an adult, and yet they are still, apparently, too weak to be allowed to read things.

This book was TOTALLY DISAPOINTING!!! I am in the popular crowd, so yes, you might say that I wasnt one to read this book, but i was in for a ride! Not one word in this book was true! Popular kids do NOT torture or humilate those who aren't popular! We have better things to do! The narrator was plain PATHETIC! She kept just feeling SORRY for herself and made other poeple give her sympathy! She wasnt willing to try new things! Instead she turned mute and criticized all other people better than her! What? She thinks we are better off? She thinks we're luckier?? People that are more popular than her have no advantages over her!! She is just too pathetic to realize it! I do not suggest this book to ANYONE because i thought it was stupid and UNrealistic!! NO TEACHER WOULD LET THERE STUDENT NOT TALK THE WHOLE YEAR!! GIVE ME A BREAK!!

What have I said about multiple exclamation points?

Aside from the denial this girl is in (plenty of people, popular and otherwise, go out of their way to torment those less fortunate), there are plenty of teachers who would let a student not talk a whole year, usually because they don't notice.

I'll be first to say that the book is overrated, but the comment somebody (not quoted) made comparing it to the Olsen twins was completely uncalled for.

Gah, I'm too bored/lazy to do this properly, you only get one book. Sorry, duckies.