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Lee Stokes blackbertie07290b — This book was like a runaway train...it just kept picking up speed! I wouldn't say it was the best-written book, but its plot kept me reading. It's sort of a psychological mystery...you keep reading because you want to know whodunit, but also because the characters all seem shady enough to be involved. I was disappointed with the ending. It wrapped up too quickly and left me disappointed with the status of one of the characters but all in all, it's a tense and fast-paced read. I've read Road of the Dead by this author, and felt the same way about that book. Both books set in England, with teenage characters who are grappling with various issues...drinking, abuse, sexuality, negligent parents. There's definitely an edge to the books. For older teens.

Nella Yarita nellayarit791a — I read this as a student for a class when I was about 14 years old. Great stuff. I saw the movie years later.

Victor Ng vngwsy3cff — Started off a bit slow but turned out to be quite enjoyable.

Katie Bellinder katiebellinder — book club April 2009

Eduardo Lages eduardolages — ~Reprint from March 2006~ NONFICTION BOOK REVIEW © Jenn Sommersby Young ~ 2006-2011 SIN AND SYNTAX: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose by Constance Hale Pub. Broadway ISBN 0767903099 / 978-0767903097 2011 update: available for Kindle There are three absolutes for the reading writer upon his/her decision to ingest Constance Hale’s Sin and Syntax: (1) Buy your own copy. Do not borrow the library’s edition, my friend, because you will not be able to resist the urge to dog-ear, highlight, scribble, or underline the imperatives dished out as canapés before the brandy. Wordsmiths rejoice and pedants repent, Hale lays out the rules and then rips wheelies all over them. (2) Read through the book once, allowing your pen to merely fondle the text, consenting to only sporadic gratification with the occasional “*” or “!” Savor the book. Force yourself to pay attention. Don’t be scared or intimidated by Hale’s genius. (Thank heavens there is SOMEONE who understands direct objects, participles, dangling whatzits and thingamajigs). And don’t get caught up on the sentence diagramming stuff or else you might scurry away in terror, leaving your poor pen unfulfilled and frustrated. (3) Read through a second time and take as many notes as possible before writer’s cramp tangles your fingers. Your pen will bask in the afterglow and might even buy you dinner. Adroitly constructing her tower block by block, Hale pours the foundation in the sections she calls Bones (a bit of a remedial in grammar school tedium) and Flesh (explaining the connection between the grammar and the prose). But if you snooze, you lose. Hale quickly moves past the snore-a-thon “sermonettes” and dives headlong into the power tools you need to fortify your writing, progressing ever onward and upward to the higher stratum that will house the plumbing and ventilation systems of colorful, imaginative prose. Hale is a stylistic seductress. The most delicious pieces of each chapter, Cardinal Sins and Carnal Pleasures (honestly, who could resist flipping past the teachy-preachy parts to sneak a peek into the book’s naughty bits?) give context to the earlier lessons by exploiting real world examples of bumbled goober-speak. One of Hale’s favorite targets is President Bush Sr., though she doesn’t discriminate—politicos, academics, and pompous “purple prose” authors are fair game. And once she demonstrates why, it becomes so obvious! Hale warns against treading in “The Danger Zone” the Stuffed Shirts seem to frequent, or you’re risking grammatically inept, slobbery writing—and that’ll do nuthin’ but make yuh sound dumb (or Texan). But Hale doesn’t just make fun of stumbling speakers and ballooned blowhards. She regularly injects examples of Mark Twain’s spirited prose to illustrate her maxims, inducing a few ‘So-that’s-what-she-means!’ sorta moments. Even Thoreau was a wordy fella and often mucked through six or seven rewrites before lighting on a final version. “You’d be surprised how little you need to get your points across. Strip sentences down. Clear out the clutter,” Hale writes. ‘Nuff said. Hale dispels some common controversies in written English (Never end a sentence with a preposition, Never split infinitives) and shovels advice on the proper use of grammatical Malvolios (who vs. whom, bad vs. badly, and the English preoccupation with and chronic abuse of the word ‘like’). Though she diagrams sentences with wild abandon and laces the boudoir with antecedents, high energy verbs, and saucy nouns, Hale’s kindler, gentler side entices writers to find the Music, Voice, Lyricism, Melody, and Rhythm in their work. Grammatical accuracy, while a noble objective, should not overrule the natural voice and rhythm in your writing, especially if your characters speak in dialects or distinctive language sets. If I had more room, I would eagerly compile lists of Hale’s Do’s and Don’ts, the words to politely avoid and words to torch at all costs, and the multiple examples of beauty risen from the swamps. The writer who absorbs Hale’s opus will, at first, wrestle in fits and starts with old habits fighting for their last sucks of oxygen. Let them suffocate. Sin and Syntax is a style manual for the modern writer, a diuretic for written bloat, preoccupied with a sole objective: truth in prose.

Silvana Pérez _a_hivi — All building up to what I hope is an amazing finale. So much back story and time-weaving in this one. I get more impressed with the series with every book!

Cherif Selim _505 — The G Spot By: Norie This is my favorite book of all times. Its about a girl named juicy “Mo” Stanfield and her brother jimmy “jo”. Ever since they remember there life has been nothing but horrible. There mother was a crack head and lost her life by stealing crack from a man who worked for big Tony who at the time was the biggest drug dealer in Harlem. Then there grandmother took them in and took care of the them the best she could. Then when she died of a heart attack the smoothes man in the neighbor by the name of Granite McKay the owner of the G spot and new head drug dealer in Harlem liked her and wanted her to be his . juicy new she couldn’t take care of her self and her brother with his disability and G (granite mckay) was rich handsome sweet and would take care of both her and her brother and she knew they would live the good life and have it all. He was willing to let juicy and her brother jimmy live with him under one condition. He owned her. At the time juicy thought it was a sweet deal. It was Granite McKay he brought her and her brother the best of everything it was never second best with G. but even though he was filling her material desries he was felling her sexually ones. If she would have cheated on G she would die. Point blank. She would have nasty thoughts ever where she go. She would watch the males dance at the G spot and masturbate. She masturbates ever chance she gets. She even goes as fair as letting her masseuse feel on her sexually and eat her butt. G suspects infidelity and beats her so bad or would have sex to her but hole till she bleed to show her a lesson. Then she does something she should have never done. She sleeps with G’s son Gino and they fall in love and try to figure out a way to escape G before he finds out. But G grabs wind of it before they think and seat them up to confirm his suspensions then he gets his man to beat his son servile and take him out of state, and do unimaginably things to juicy that I rather not say and let you read for yourself. The reason I liked this book is because of the violence the realism and relationship between a brother and sister. The violence in this book was so real and sometimes mad me wanna cry. Like the part when they killed juicy’s friend dicey cause she was informing her on all the stuff that really went down in the G spot and what her little brother was doing. They killed her and put her tongue in her mouth to so hat she talk to much and she need to learn how to hold her tongue. Then when jimmy shot and killed G and then shot his self. And all the times G beat juicy and even hit her friend rita. The realism was really good because it was like she was leaving the good life then turned into the not so good life and now she have to find a way out. So she uses her street smarts to survive and try to get away from G and his cruel ways. Then the brother and sister love that juicy and jimmy have is amazing they both love each other very much and would do anything for the other and jimmy did the ultimate by sacrificing his life for juicy and that should real love for his sister. She in closing that’s why this is my favorite book because of the violence, realism and brother and sisterly love they have towards one another.