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ShadesOfMe
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19 Dec 2007, 5:49 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
I couldn't identify with him. I think that he's more affected than I am.


me neither. i hated the book.



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19 Dec 2007, 8:23 pm

Even though the book was a quick read, I couldn't identify with the main character at all. He was clearly HFA rather than AS. I found the prime number organization interesting, even though math isn't my strongest subject. I found the worldview of the main character overall very negative. I couldn't identify with him at all.



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19 Dec 2007, 9:25 pm

I had the book... sold it at a garage sale, or rather, someone stole it there... I enjoyed it immensely but only identified with the need to be perfect and be logical and do the right thing, the anger issue sort of because I had issues and wish I had been like Christopher and hit them and sent them to the hospital... the wanting to solve a mystery, because I liked solving crimes... and the talk about escaping from prison, lol. The rest I didn't identify with at all. :lol:



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19 Dec 2007, 9:33 pm

Can't say, I never read it.



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19 Dec 2007, 9:36 pm

Ana54 wrote:
I had the book... sold it at a garage sale, or rather, someone stole it there... I enjoyed it immensely but only identified with the need to be perfect and be logical and do the right thing, the anger issue sort of because I had issues and wish I had been like Christopher and hit them and sent them to the hospital... the wanting to solve a mystery, because I liked solving crimes... and the talk about escaping from prison, lol. The rest I didn't identify with at all. :lol:

I totally agree. It was all those other bits that I couldn't see in myself, at all. Like the way he had to leave the second application of shampoo in his hair for exactly 60 seconds. (Ooops. No. Sorry. That's would be me, not Christopher.)


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