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This book is awful.
The subject matter is awful. The reading experience itself was so awful that multiple times I had to put the book down in horror to take deep breaths or to stop myself from being physically sick or to stop the headache blossoming behind my eyes. Multiple times I had to talk myself into picking it back up. Sometimes I had to stop just to think or because it was too emotionally overwhelming. Now that I am finally done, I still feel awful.
And that is why I rated it 5 stars.
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The subject matter is awful. The reading experience itself was so awful that multiple times I had to put the book down in horror to take deep breaths or to stop myself from being physically sick or to stop the headache blossoming behind my eyes. Multiple times I had to talk myself into picking it back up. Sometimes I had to stop just to think or because it was too emotionally overwhelming. Now that I am finally done, I still feel awful.
And that is why I rated it 5 stars.
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This book had been on my radar since it first came out many years ago. So I'm sad to say that I didn't like it very much. I almost called it quits many times but the drama of the family dynamics kept pulling me back in. The book is mainly concerned about the age old debate of nature vs nurture. I wouldn't recommend it unless you really like dark and disturbing material. Plus, the book is overwritten. There are too many details in areas of little importance. Still, I'm continuing to think about t
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This is the story of school shooter as told from his mother's point of view. The boy, Kevin, was troubled from the start, difficult to comfort as a baby, brutal to his younger sister etc. The mother does not appear overly fond of her son herself, even long before he shoots his classmates. Definitely thought provoking but disturbing.
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This book was something else. I could not believe how in detail it got. It was a disturbing book. As much as I love to read this book took me three weeks to read. The last 100 pages were really good, but the rest was just trying to hard. I could not get into the characters and I wish I could because I liked the story concept.
This book is a very slow start but by the end I couldn't put it down.
It is terrifying on so many levels but none of them are the hokey horror novel sense. It is the subject matter and the nature of Kevin that were scary. I also was shocked at how I could sympathize with the narrator (Eva) whom I found so thoroughly unlikable. ...more
It is terrifying on so many levels but none of them are the hokey horror novel sense. It is the subject matter and the nature of Kevin that were scary. I also was shocked at how I could sympathize with the narrator (Eva) whom I found so thoroughly unlikable. ...more
Wow! This was a dark book. I could tell where it was leading as I was reading it, but that didn't stop me from feeling punched in the gut by the ending. It's a book that I'm sort of glad that I read, but part of me wishes I hadn't.
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Mar 09, 2012
Kristina
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Jul 16, 2014
Amy W
marked it as to-read
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Nov 21, 2014
Jayme Pendergraft
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