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Title: The Best Book Ever...
Review: This novel is about a teenage boy, with good intentions, but not always good sense. A very real depiction of the life of a boy that learns lessons about life (and love) and pays his dues in his transition from boy to man.The writing is like poetry, set in smalltown Iowa in the 1950's. There is humor, but most of all, there is heart. I read this novel as a teen, but after rereading it nearly a hundred times in the past twenty years, I find that this book is an American classic that never got the recognition like "Tom Sawyer" or "Catcher in the Rye" or "Lord of the Flies" etc, etc...However, this book transcends the teen genre, and remains a beautiful and touching slice of Americana literature...Five Stars, all the way...
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