![]() ![]() And I read it in less than one day because it's the sort of book that you can't put down (though I had to put it down to sleep, and then there were other things that had to be done first today before I could sit down with it again).This book is fast-paced and brutally honest. So there was nothing new for me, in that way, in this book.But I didn't read it to learn anything new, I read it because it was recommended highly by other reading-friends. ![]() more wed much on the TV, and been involved (at the periphery) with lives that would fit in the world of this book. Since then, however, (and it was quite a good number of years ago in the early 1970s that I was at secondary school) I have read much, vie. If any of the girls at my school were sexually active it wasn't common knowledge, and alcohol was rarely on the scene.A cloistered environment? Maybe so. Towards the end of my years at school it was becoming 'fashionable' to swear, but it was never part of an everyday vocabulary. ![]() By the time we got to secondary school we'd had violent responses socialized out of us and I never saw anyone pushing anyone around, let alone getting into fights. Review 1: The world in this book is light-years away from the world I grew up in, and though we were far from rich and we five kids never went to private schools, you'd still have to say I was privileged. ![]()
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