Many thanks for the book report form I found on the web!
Name: Annette L.
Date: March 15, 2008
Book Report
- Title of Book: This Boy's Life
- Author: Tobias Wolff
Setting: Where does this story take place?
Florida, Utah, Washington State but mostly in the far off land of "Are you shi*ting me?"
Main Characters: Give a brief description of each character. Use words like kind, lonely, helpful, gets into trouble, etc.
Separate these words with commas.
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Main Characters are: |
Brief Description of the character |
| Tobias | A pile of caca that fails miserably at making readers believe he is anything more than a pile of caca. |
| Tobias' Washington State Stepfather | His knuckles drag on the ground. |
| Tobias Mother | Remember Flat Stanley? She is flatter. |
Summary: Write a summary about the story. Don't retell the whole story.
This Boy's Life actually has the audacity to call itself a memoir. All it is missing to actually be a memoir is authenticity, credibility, believability, genuineness, truth, realism, plausibility, versimilitude, and veracity. Cinderella is a lot closer to a memoir than This Boy's Life.
The book is so far off center that it makes you angry: You swear at the book and scoff at the book and put it down in a way that will break its spine. Why spitting on it seems like it could be entirely possible.
Conclusion: How did the story end ?
303 pages too late. (The first page had promise)
Did you like the book? Why or Why not?
I heartily disliked the book. It ranks in my top ten most disliked books although it doesn't begin to touch my #1 most disliked; that one had me foaming at the mouth and writhing on the ground.
My review aside,This Boy's Life won the PEN/Faulkner award and hundreds of people have given it 4 stars out of 5 in the 5 star rating system. (I am positively certain that I have never met a one of those people.)
Along the lines of a story about a boy's life, I highly recommend Boy's Life by Robert McCammon. That is one rip-roaring story! I only recommend reading This Boy's Life if you are desperately in need of penance.
Haven't read "This Boy's Life" and am not at all likely to, based on the reviews of people whose intelligence I respect, but "A Boy's Life" is one I've read multiple times and enjoy completely. I've enjoyed several of McCammon's other books, as well.
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"303 pages too late" Brilliant, I'm in stitches!!
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