Paperboy
Published by Penguin Random House Audio
Narrated by Lincoln Hoppe
4/5
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About this audiobook
This Newbery Honor winner is perfect for fans of To Kill a Mockingbird, The King's Speech, and The Help. A boy who stutters comes of age in the segregated South, during the summer that changes his life.
Little Man throws the meanest fastball in town. But talking is a whole different ball game. He can barely say a word without stuttering-not even his own name. So when he takes over his best friend's paper route for the month of July, he's not exactly looking forward to interacting with the customers. But it's the neighborhood junkman, a bully and thief, who stirs up real trouble in Little Man's life.
A Newbery Honor Award Winner
An ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book
An IRA Children's and Young Adults' Choice
An IRA Teachers' Choice
A Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year
A National Parenting Publications Award Honor Book
A BookPage Best Children's Book
An ABC New Voices Pick
A Junior Library Guild Selection
An ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Recording
An ALA-YALSA Amazing Audiobook
A Mississippi Magnolia State Award List Selection
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Reviews for Paperboy
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the third novel by Dexter I've read, and the third I loved but most likely won't read again. The prose is wonderful, dripping in humid Florida atmosphere. But it's so sad and profound that I don't know if I can stomach another go-through. Who knows.
One of the things that struck me about this book is how much is dissects the cruelness of people, even in the littlest of ways. It's especially true how men treat women in The Paperboy--even the well-meaning fellers are fairly awful. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excellent.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I finished this book not knowing quite what I thought or what to write in this review. I usually enjoy books about newspapers and this one was good in parts; but probably fell down for me in that I couldn't feel any empathy for the main characters,
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Huh. The story in this book is good but the telling of story, is really slow and filled with a lot of unnecessary detail. I get trying to add atmosphere but this book for me just seemed to drag on, and yet at the same time more detail about the killer, the sheriff who was killed and the opinions of those in town are given barely any detail.
Good story idea poor execution. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Interesting start. Fizzles out in the end
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This isn't really a mystery either but it's a fascinating well told and well written story about a family of a father and two sons. Ward and Jack are the brothers of their newspaperman father. Ward follows in his footsteps and Jack tells the story. But this is more than just a plot - it's a really interesting read. I have had the book on my list of those to check out and now I wish I could remember who told me to read it! Oh well. It was good!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This novel is a spare, gritty depiction of the unpleasant nature of journalism and the depths of immorality to which some of its practitioners will sink in an effort to win recognition. But it’s also far more than that. It’s also the story of a young man’s maturation—that young man is our narrator, Jack James, who tells many stories in the course of this novel. He tells the story of Thurmond Call, a local sheriff who was murdered in cold blood on a dark country road. He tells the story of Hillary Van Wetter, the local ne’er-do-well who was convicted of the murder. He tells the story of Charlotte Bless, a sexually combustible woman who has fallen in love with Hillary and who enlists the help of Jack’s brother (and his unscrupulous colleague) in freeing Hillary. He tells the story of Ward James, Jack’s brother, an intrepid and indefatigable journalist who struggles with the truth of every story he writes just as he struggles with the profound secret that plagues his every waking moment. He tells the story of Yardley Acheman, Ward’s writing partner, whose lust for journalistic glory poisons almost every character in the novel. And he tells the story of his father—an emotionally disconnected man who is simply incapable of creating any kind of bond with his sons in the wake of his wife’s abandonment.Pete Dexter is such a masterful writer that all of these stories become one complex narrative web—the most minor tug on one strand of the narrative yields distinct and incontrovertible effects on all of the other strands. It’s impossible to separate the intricacies of Dexter’s tale as he examines universal themes like the nature of evil, the virtue of truth, the recklessness of ambition, the toxicity of denial, and the consequences of compromise in a way that makes all of these abstract ideals almost palpable. Rarely has such spare prose resulted in such stylistic power—Dexter is a writer who knows well how to tell a story.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book took me a while to get into, but, I am glad I stuck with it. It revolves around crime, a news story, and an unpredictable group of characters. The news story comes to fruition, the big prize is won, but not without dire consequences. This book requires staying power, but, the ending is really worth the journey. I enjoyed Dexter's book, Paris Trout much more than this one, but, this book is definately worth reading.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Something haunting about this book. Maybe it's the dead on portrayals of flawed human beings. I read a review that said Pete Dexter's characters really stick with you, and they do. They're drawn in short but revealing strokes. I was left with the impression, however, that one of the reasons they'll stick with me is that so many things were left unresolved in their stories. They nag at me like the feeling that I forgot to pack underwear for a long trip does.