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A Reader posted a review at 2009-08-05 10:40:38.
(Language: English)
  
it was hooking, till the end where it went downhill with the terrorist scene and how the story ends.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-16 12:21:13.
(Language: English)
i love his writing style. it seems freah to me. i'l
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-08-09 11:58:23.
(Language: English)
This book was highly compelling and I read it much too fast. Zits is a terrific character and the way the story is written I can just imagine it as a screenplay for a great movie.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-25 09:18:11.
(Language: English)
Very accessible Alexie - culture, history and a touching story. Highly recommend.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-09-17 04:42:11.
(Language: English)
This was a very quick and easy read that I greatly enjoyed. Alexie brilliantly captured a believable smart-ass teenage voice. Though the story had a very simple and straight-forward narrative, it asked several profound questions about the nature of violence and hate. It also has a totally awesome cover design. A silhouette of an Indian with two large guns = totally Awesome! At first I thought it might be an action-packed Indian-spoiltation book in the same vane as the "Billy Jack" movies. I guess I was wrong.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-03-27 04:41:07.
(Language: English)
only a few pages in...seems like he is channeling Vonnegut, good start... one of his best
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-04 07:47:25.
(Language: English)
This was my first time to read Sherman Alexie in a while. I'm delighted to see that his newer fiction is still full of force and a few powerful images that stayed with me long after this short book was over.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-05-20 09:59:34.
(Language: English)
Graphic language, but very powerful and moving. Humorous too, I really enjoyed it.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-06-12 10:12:25.
(Language: English)
I just read this book in about a day and it blew me away. I'm a sucker for the damaged teenager, the good vs. the bad, the constant contradictions in this life.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-02 12:05:49.
(Language: English)
Trippy and beautiful! This latest favorite made me think, cry, and laugh, and I loved it so much that I turned around and re-read it only a month or two later! (and that's a 1st for me!) If modern American culture had an oral tradition of knowledge passed from generation to generation, Sherman Alexie would be my favorite uncle!
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-06-22 05:34:03.
(Language: English)
This is a good, little read. Sherman Alexie has a vivid imagination and is a must-read for Alexie fans....I enjoyed it.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-07-07 09:05:27.
(Language: English)
Sherman Alexie is a great storyteller.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-04-11 12:19:16.
(Language: English)
just got done listening to the audiobook version for "Flight" which was read by Adam Beach. It was a great book to listen too.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-07-03 11:55:32.
(Language: English)
Not sure why this is listed as "Custody". I've been a fan ever since I saw the film Smoke Signals (based on his short stories in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven). I finished "Flight" over the space of two days and was moved to the point of tears on several occasions. But there is much joy too, and cynicism, and outrageous humour. Beautiful prose and such a scathing indictment on the nature of hatred, of revenge. What I love about Alexie's writing is that he genuinely sees healing and hope, even in a culture so wounded. One of the best contemporary books I've read in a long time. Highly recommend it.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-08-09 06:44:29.
(Language: English)
Told from the perspective of a very dislocated, long-suffering, smart-ass adolescent, Alexie's book initially--and at times throughout--can seem to echo as much as elaborate upon its narrator's sensibilities. Certain jokes fall flat on (almost-)forty-year-old ears, some insights (and the way they're revealed and described) can seem a tad hokey. And the plot can seem a bit ... well, after-schoolish -- this abused boy turns to violence, then--as a consequence?--begins flipping through time and personal perspectives, to understand violence and its impact from a variety of angles. And I now move beyond these qualifications and caveats to say how utterly moving the book becomes. I read it in a fast gulp, as I'm planning to teach it, but even intent on my need for simple lesson ideas, I found myself becoming more and more emotionally caught up, 'til at the end I was putting the book down, saddened and horrified and hopeful, entirely in the narrator's head. From the beginning, Alexie's ability to connect a straightforward prose style to beautifully-precise metaphors peppers each page. (A quick example, from near the book's end: he describes a lovely woman's perfect teeth as a smile filled with statues.) But what really got me is the sense of human pain and ache which comes out of this hardened, limited adolescent's viewpoint. Yes, the insights can be obvious--but the character's sense of revelation is conveyed to and, in flashes, reproduced in the reader, so that the book can seem less a treatise than a fable. The book at its best reminded me what it was like to struggle with the problem of pain and evil when I was that age (for me a more philosophical conundrum than it was for this narrator). I recommend this. I'm a huge, huge fan of Alexie's, and this (like his other two novels) is a bit less effective than his amazing short work (both prose and poetry), but that's a small beef. A lovely little book.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-09-17 06:20:02.
(Language: English)
Not Alexie's best, and yet it still manages to bring me to the verge of tears (and sometimes beyond) about half a dozen times at least. Powerful, if sometimes uber-preachy prose, but the same stunningly beautiful language one expects from Alexie.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-07-05 09:20:50.
(Language: English)
Short, simple, and entertaining enough to read to the end. It's like watching a run of the mill movie such as Night at the Museum. Nothing great, nothing that I would ever truly recommend to anyone, but if it's free on TV and you have an hour to pass? Why not? Flight is short, simple, and readable...in a 7th grade reading level sort of sense.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-14 06:07:55.
(Language: English)
This book was great! Zits is a 15 year old who has been bounced from foster home to foster home. He has been an angry young man and goes into a bank with the intent of shooting people. At that pivotal moment, he begins to travel through time and see happenings important to his life--historical moments for his Indian ancestors like Custer's last stand, his father's feeling of weakness when Zits was being born, etc. A lot of language in this book but HS students, especially boys, would love this book.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-16 03:48:14.
(Language: English)
A young Indian boy travels through time, landing in other people's bodies... or does he? Written in the first person, FLIGHT is terse and honest. Though Zits, the main character, is flawed in a troubled youth sort of way, it's easy to root for him, and one actually cares about what happens to him. This book made me quickly purchase another Sherman Alexie book to read in the near future.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-02-12 10:58:31.
(Language: English)
I thought it was kind of dumb and far fetched. Also, was too short for my tastes. I read it in about 2 hours.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-01 09:25:41.
(Language: English)
Random chance picking up this book - was wandering around Borders and saw this book incorrectly mingling with sci-fi titles. Ended up being random good luck as this book was a very crisply executed read. Crisp execution is surely due to the author's interest in poetry - not a wasted word in the book. Effectively intermingles multiple story threads and time periods in less than 200 pages. Painful and rewarding to read and highly recommended. The Native American perspective provided by the author is compelling.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-06-14 09:12:07.
(Language: English)
Another great one from Alexie. Couldn't put it down!
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-03-27 07:33:49.
(Language: English)
This book reminded me of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. There's lots of time travel, but instead of being focused on a guy who went through a war (and the way it unhinged him from reality), it's focused on a kid who learns the anatomy of violence. That is, what are the different parts of it, and what names are they given? How do they work together and function as a system? It could have been boring or preachy or excessively gory, but it was none of these. The story is touching, beautiful and puts a pack of ice on our modern swelling hatred for each other.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-02-23 04:11:45.
(Language: English)
Love this book. Imaginative look at the lives of kids in foster care- a barbaric remnant of mistreatment of orphans in our current society from the turn of the century.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-27 12:38:20.
(Language: English)
A good exploration of the desire for revenge, and its transformation. Great down-to-earth yet beautiful writing. Particularly great for young adult readers, but worth it no matter what your age. Very moving!
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