Uncover Rumble Fish Prepared By S.E. Hinton Available In Physical Edition
checking out this classic, I have to say it holds up pretty well,
RustyJames' voice is beautifully rendered, and the first few chapters drew me in effortlessly, Having squirmed through enough clunky expository prose in YA books, I appreciate Hinton's avoidance of such, for the most part, Alright, this is not my usual thing, Not by a long shot, A book about teen angst, hero worship and fighting because it's fun yeah, no thanks before you post a reply dear reader, yes, I know there's more to this book than that, please hold fire a few moments.
You may be wondering, "Tim, why did you even bother with this" Excellent question hypothetical reader, I'm glad you asked,
I read this because a friend of mine started a book club in real life through skype though as too many people still cannot meet up, and by all the gods I will encourage such a thing and agreed to participate prior to even knowing the book.
When this was picked well, I was less than thrilled,
Let me get this out of the way, I have not read sitelinkThe Outsiders, I have no intention of reading The Outsiders, I will perhaps read sitelinkThe Outsider, or perhaps sitelinkThe Outsider maybe even sitelinkThe Outsider but I will likely not read The Outsiders.
Maybe it's the "S" at the end, but most likely it is because it just doesn't appeal, I shall be a square and not in fact "be golden, " or whatever the hell that line is
Nonetheless, I will read a book to help a friend kick things off, What did I think of it knowing that the deck was very much stacked against it
Honestly wasn't bad.
Again, not my cup of tea, but it's not a bad book, I found aspects that I truly appreciated, I liked the interactions with the father and the fact that our lead didn't understand the more educated conversations, In particular I found one section of dialogue to be a gem, In it our lead tells his older brother that his former girlfriend Cassandra says she is not hooked on drugs:
"Oh, yeah.
Well, I believe her. "
"You do"
"Sure, You know what happened to people who didn't believe Cassandra, "
I didn't. My father said, "The Greeks got 'em, "
Now see what I mean What the hell did Greeks have to do with anything
It's a little back and forth which said quite a bit about the characters.
In fact, one aspect I can praise all around is that the entire book is mostly like this, Aspects that are said inform you of who these people are, and our lead, poor RustyJames just doesn't pick up on it, It's actually well told in that regard,
The fact that RustyJames doesn't get so much of what's going on improves the book in an unexpected way, He gets an overwhelming sense that things are wrong at times, but can't figure out what or why just a sense of foreboding.
So, while I may not have the nostalgia for Hinton to make me appreciate this in a way that perhaps I would if I had read her books as a teenager, I can still appreciate the clever ideas and the stylistic way she told the story.
Frankly though, there's just not enough actual story to really make a book and with the large print, it's really not much more than a lengthy short story.
It's an interesting character piece, but doesn't feel quite finished, I appreciate aspects of it, but it does feel like there was a build up to something that never quite made it,/stars. Tenía ganas de leer algo más de la autora de una de mis novelas favoritas, Rebeldes, No sabía qué esperarme, pero desde luego no una historia que siguiera los pasos de su primera obra,
Pareciendo un spinoff, tratando el tema de las bandas callejeras, las peleas y las relaciones sexuales, Susan E, Hinton crea una historia fuerte con mucho que enseñar, aunque no mucho que contar, Con apenas un par de escenas memorables, la novela es demasiado corta y no consigue profundizar en los personajes,
Es decir, es similar a un monólogo interior: todo desde el punto de vista de Rusty, demasiado centrado en sus pensamientos y sentimientos, y ese estilo me gusta siempre.
En este caso no ha sido menos, pero esperaba una historia que no me dejase a medias en cuanto a conocer el resto de personajes.
Que quizá esa sea la intención, el centrarse solo en el protagonista Pues oye, puede ser, pero es una novela que trata de profundizar y se queda ahí.
Sin embargo, es una historia dura que te hace ponerte en la piel de varias situaciones complicadas, con una narración increíble y muy entretenida.
Guarda unos cuantos giros más que interesantes y se lee de una sentada, La recomiendo, pero no vayáis buscando algo que os cambie la vida, Rumblefish is pretty amazing it's all about a kid named Rusty James who is yearning for a fight, Abandoned by his mother and living with his always drunk father, His only idol is brother motorcycle boy who he wants to be when he grows up, But never judge or underestimate anyone, . . thast what i learned from this book,
This book is great, . . SE. Hinton hasn't let me down
Rumblefish
Fa parte del mio periodo dorato parlo di letture! tra i minimalisti statunitensi.
Ho molto amato questo libro e il film che ne trasse Francis Ford Coppola, quell'altalenarsi di immagini sincopate in bianco e nero scandite dalla batteria di Stewart Copeland in Don't box me in.
Così
come ho amato moltissimo anche I ragazzi dellaesima strada: stessa autrice, stesso regista,
La mia copertina riproduce il manifesto del film: Matt Dillon illustrato da Renato Casaro, un altro grandissimo maestro,
sitelink youtube. com/watchvjTln Things in life dont come with equal weight, The biggest and heaviest impacts are when an event or a moment grab a life that is completely and utterly ripe for something it didnt know existed.
The film Rumble Fish was one of the big blows of my early adulthood, To me it was and still is mindblowingly good, The cast, the themes, the blackandwhite and The Motorcycle Boy, Tom Waits raising his middle finger and chewing gum and an ending capable of knocking out a cinema full in the one go.
What I didnt realise at the time was how much it had stayed true to the book,
I honestly dont know why I didnt think of reading it earlier, As with The Outsiders, I think it had something to do with the Young Adult tag even though thats what I was at the first viewing of each film Rumblefish at the Scala cinema in Londons Kings Cross and The Outsiders on video in my family home.
Wasted years, I can tell you,
The first thing that struck me about Rumble Fish the book was the power of the opening chapter, Its nighon perfect Id say, Sets the scene, hooks the reader, gives the voice and explodes into action in a way thats laid back and almost lazy I know that laidback and explode contradict each other, but thats how it feels I guess that a slick car with great gears and engine might do this as it accelerates, fast as hell yet so smooth the motion is hardly felt.
After reading those first few pages, I had to pause for a couple of days just to think about it,
The next thing that hit was the way that the movie of the book had stuck so closely to the dialogue its practically verbatim.
I loved reading lines that Ive been carrying around with me for years:
“Even the most primitive societies have an innate respect for the insane.
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“Loyalty is his only vice, ”
“The Greeks got her, ”
“California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking shes on top of the world, not knowing shes dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.
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Winners all. And there are so many more,
The story itself is brilliant, Its everything I want from a book, The characters are so well drawn and the setting and the plot are great, It holds an incredible romance for me, a nostalgia for something I didnt really experience, the kind of nostalgia I felt with books like The Great Gatsby and the like.
I love the idea of people being born in the wrong age I swear I know a few of those or in the wrong place ditto.
The sense of heroes and idolisation reminds me of my own idols, The relationships are dysfunctional in a way thats almost caricature but maintain love at their core, Time flies, life is short, people are different, we have dreams and nightmares, were all products of our genetic mix and our realities.
As far as I know, this book is studied still as a modern classic in the US, I can see why that is if I ever write anything as good, Ill have achieved all I ever wanted to with my work.
I can also see why this might attract the odd detractor,
Too simple they might say, Too unreal. Too pretentious. Too whatever they feel its too much of, Whatever it is, they might be right, but then again, maybe they just didnt read it at the right moment or in the right place.
To me, its just brilliant,
And I still want to be The Motorcycle Boy even though I get nervous as a passenger on a scooter as soon as it racks upmiles per.
Read this one I say, Read and weep.
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