what about mine?

Ah...speak....

I have a love/hate relationship with that book. Actually, there's another book I read with basically the same plot idea, but a much much better story overall, I like it much better. It's called Billie Standish was HERE and I totally love it!

who wrote it?

I forgets, but it's very good.

Jenu wrote:

Ah...speak....

I have a love/hate relationship with that book. Actually, there's another book I read with basically the same plot idea, but a much much better story overall, I like it much better. It's called Billie Standish was HERE and I totally love it!

I read a book by Sarah Dessen it's called Just Listen. The story line is similar to that of speak.

The thing with Billie Standish Was HERE is that although it has the same main conflict of having a young girl being raped, the situation, the outcome, the ending, the characters, and the relationships throughout the story are so infinitely much better, that it makes for a much more real and interesting story, and also one that has a lot more redeeming factors than speak. The thing I really hate about Speak is that after the main character is raped, she completely blocks off any and all relationships with EVERYONE! And everyone becomes either a complete annoyance to her (like her parents), or become mean jerks who ignore her (her old friends), or are worthless yakkers that she expects to care completely for her without giving a rat's butt about them and their problems (like her new friend). It's like, for the whole year after she's raped, she's just completely in her own self pity party and takes it out on everyone else by just counting them as worthless beings. Even her new friend, who, if she had given even an ounce of caring, could have been a good friend, but she pushed the other girl away, and then gets mad at her for joining her rivals.

It's just, you want to feel sorry for this girl but she's feeling so sorry for herself that there's no room left for the reader to even care. That's why I dislike the story. I still think it's an ok story, but Billie Standish is WAY better!

another (kind of confusing) one I wrote a long time ago. just take it in segments and you might understand it, if not, i can explain it to you.

Haha, i was sitting on the porch and this one popped into my head