Retrieve Young Donald Depicted By Michael Bennett File

took the day to read this and it was a good read, There are so many more characters in this that are more compelling than the title character, Even still I found myself liking the title characters panache, I think thats the lesson though,

I think this novel is one of those books that should be required reading like the way books like To Kill A Mockingbird or The Great Gatsby are.
I like the way the author avoided low hanging fruit by declining to bash the title character and instead wrote a greater narrative interrogating American morality, The author nails it. What more can I say
I loved Young Donald and have recommended to many, It's just so validating and truly a good giggle, too, I generally don't read anything about the man cause it's so stressful, but somehow reading this imaginary back story was strangely fulfilling, Beautifully written, clever, comical a seriously good read! I have to admit, I was surprised by how much I liked this book, I went in expecting a few laughs about high school Trump, but it's actually a very rich, engaging and complex story, It's historical fiction in the best sense that it really transports you to a specific time and place, In this case, a military school just for boys white boys and one smarterthanallofthem Asian in thes, The characters around Trump are as interesting as the young sociopath himself, It's just a cool story, and since I live in Hong Kong, I especially appreciated the Hong Kong gangster storyline that's in there as well, Really fun read. I especially enjoyed the side characters, like the librarian and the headmaster dealing with his heavy alimony obligations, And the excursion into the Hong Kong underworld and ending in Saigon were fascinating, The story is a lot more than just DT in high school, Although DT is clearly the star of the show! A wonderful and easy to read novel, quite a pageturner, funny with great characters, not just the protagonist, The eulogy is classic. For anyone missing the old Donald, this is the real stuff, Very, very fun read. As someone else here wrote, its definitely weird, and it left me guessing what was real Trump history and what was made up the note at the beginning of the book says its entirely made up, but thats clearly nottrue!.
Was his mother really so absent in his life Was his grandfather really such an important figure for him Was there a real Jerry I never read a novel quite like this before.
It was really entertaining and I recommend it, As a former student of Russian literature, I really enjoyed the authors use of Dostoevskys Crime and Punishment in this book, The students at the school are assigned the book at the beginning of the term, Then an incident occurs which leaves a number of the boys reasons to feel guilty, Each boys relationship to the book says something important about their feelings toward guilt and confession,

The antihero Donald loses his copy before hes read even a page, and of course he feels no guilt at all, I dont want to spoil the fates of the other boys, but in one funny passage a clueless fellow who is briefly feeling so overcome with guilt that he thinks he may vomit, puts his copy of Crime and Punishment under his pillow to prop up his head arguably the worst possible course of action at that moment and a fantastic image.


As many people have written here, this is a funny book, But its also a really smart one, and you shouldnt let the page turning quality mislead you you need to pay attention as you read this! Wow!! I really liked this book! To me, its the story of the US under Trump as told through a boarding school tale set in thes.
Super clever. And I could relate to the story on many different levels, because I was one of the only Asians at my high school and I had a college roommate who was kind of a “young Donald” herself.
This story combines some of my absolute favorite genres historical fiction/political satire/boarding school story all wrapped together in a very funny package, This book made me very interested in the whole idea of imagined biographies which I had never considered before, I plan to read Curtis Sittenfelds Rodham next and see how they compare, I bought this book because of the cover yeah, yeah, I know youre not supposed to do that, . . , and it turns out the cover sets the perfect tone for the story, The specter of the man young Donald will become looms over this story just like in the silhouette image on the cover, Its an interesting mashup of genres a character study that reads like a page turning suspense novel, A very fun and interesting read! Are you ready to laugh until you cry Whether you are a Trump supporter or not, this book is the most comical piece of work Ive read in a long time.
Especially with everything that has happened recently it takes a lighthearted spin on Donald Trumps life growing up and its a shocker! A clever, witty and smart story that made me really care about the characters.
My favorites were Mrs. Duncannon, Stanley and Jerry. All characters whose lives are made worse by their interaction with Donald, Just like what happens to everyone in the real Trumps orbit! Waiting for the movie now, Absolutely hilarious book that takes you on a pageturning ride through The Donald as a scheming and manipulative senior at a New York area military school, It's fiction, but I ended up feeling like I had learned something about him, I was reluctant to try this book after a friend recommended it, because I felt Trumpedout, But it's a hoot. You can read it for the laughs, for an intriguing boarding school story, or for the political aspects, Bennet leaves it to the

reader to decide how to read this novel, Had a great time reading a preview copy of this book, Really strong characters, and had me laughing the whole time, Excited to see who plays young Donald in the movie version! Highly recommend it, What a lucky find! A friend recommended this book to me, and I finished it indays of happy reading, Its a fascinating and really hysterical take on POTUS soon to be exPOTUS! as a young man, Bennett does a great job making you care about the boys at the school, even young Donald himself, He also had me looking up all kinds of things like was there really an “Apostrophe S case” in New Jersey and trying to figure out what was real and what was madeup in this very creative version of history.
I just finished reading Young Donald today Jan,the same day the Trumpled rioters stormed the U, S. Capitol. The news and the book went together in a deeply sad but rather perfect way, As others have written here, this book is allegorical, In writing a story about the damage a student who lacks all empathy and scruples can do to a school, Bennett is really describing the toxic impact Trump has had on the country.
In the story, horrible fates tend to befall anyone who get too close to young Donald, Yes, its a funny story as well, with many memorable lines and chuckles, But finishing the book on a day like this makes me focus on Bennetts deeper message, about the corrosiveness on institutions that a single, totally unscrupulous person can have, On any other day, I might have given it arating, But today I feel it definitely deserves a, Yes, this is a work of fiction, but the reader cannot help but identify the worst characteristics of our President, This timely read captures the truly selfish and entitled behavior of this very dangerous man and creates a fictional storyline around it, Young Donald is a real blast! Its the story of the worlds most famous Donald lying and manipulating his way through an investigation into an incident that occurs at his military school.
The story mixes real biography Donalds family background seems very much like the real thing described by Mary Trump in her book with made up facts and characters in a clever way that leaves you wondering whats real and whats not.
Its the best debut novel I have read in awhile, Michael Bennett dives into the psychology of young Donald during his senior year at the New Jersey Military Academy, The story nicely juxtaposes a matteroffact narration style with insights into Donald's interior world, Over and over, Donald feels compelled to lie, As one character says, "What gnawed at him was not that Donald had lied to him, . . It was the fact that the lies were unnecessary, " I especially liked the character of Donald's classmate Stanley Wong, the son of one of Hong Kong's most notorious crime families, Stanley is rather studios and, in his own way, quite honorable, which provides an interesting foil for the title character, Just a few minutes before, Teddy Haswell had been helping his friend Donald break into the math teacher's office, Now, limbs terminally akimbo, Teddys body lies in a pool of blood in Jessup Quadrangle, And at the center of the investigation at the prestigious New Jersey Military Academy is young Donald,

Surely blame for Teddys accidental death should not rest with him, Donald reasons, But how Can people be convinced that Teddy took his own life Can suspicion be cast on Stanley Wong, the Academys only Asian cadet And with Teddy gone, who can Donald enlist to help him avoid blame

From New York realestate moguls to Hong Kong triad bosses, Donalds web of lies soon spins further than he could have ever imagined.
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