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Title: PROPERTY OF SHOULD BE PROPERTY OF THE BIRDS! FOR THE BIRDS!
Review: I hate to be a dissenter, but I just didn't like this book. Although it was well-written and a realistically grim picture of urban gang life, I just could not like any of the characters. Danny the Sweet was the only quasi-decent one in the bunch. Even though this is trivial, I found the sobriquet "the Sweet" irritating. What bothered me most was the sheer sexism that was not only practiced, but accepted and even welcomed by the female characters. The title itself is very revealing -- women were nothing more than "chattel," or "Property." I didn't like the onstant references to the female characters as "the Property," "Orphan (or Pack) Property." It was a dehumanizing treatment of women and certainly made for some very unsympathetic and unappealing charcters, including the unnamed protagonist. I loved every other book Ms. Hoffman wrote except for this one. I thought "Property of" was for the birds.
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