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Der Eigenbrötler Jack arbeitet bei einem Limousinen-Service. Sein einziger Freund ist Clyde, der den ewigen Junggesellen unbedingt verkuppeln möchte. Mithilfe seiner Frau Lucy stellt er Jack die Bestattungsunternehmerin Connie vor. Zwischen den. Jack in Love (Originaltitel Jack Goes Boating) ist eine US-amerikanische romantische Komödie von Philip Seymour Hoffman aus dem Jahr Der Film über. Der einsame Jack arbeitet als Fahrer bei einem Limousinen-Service. Sein Kollege und bester Freund Clyde und dessen Frau Lucy würden ihm. barberadelnebbioso.eu - Kaufen Sie Jack in Love günstig ein. Qualifizierte Bestellungen werden kostenlos geliefert. Sie finden Rezensionen und Details zu einer. Jack in Love. (28)1 Std. 27 Min Regiedebüt von Oscar-Preisträger Philip Seymour Hoffman über den scheuen Einzelgänger Jack, der die vereinsamte. Philip Seymour Hoffman gibt sein Regiedebüt. Der Film "Jack in Love" erzählt entzückende Geschichten über die Liebe zwischen zwei. Der einsame New Yorker Jack arbeitet als Fahrer bei einem Limousinen-Service. Sein Kollege und bester Freund Clyde und dessen Frau Lucy.
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Anime War Episode 6 Hindi Dubbed TrailerView all 9 comments. Aug 15, Jessica Jeffers rated it it was amazing Shelves: fiction , favorites. Growing up in southeastern Ohio, I was surrounded by rednecks.
Not Jeff Foxworthy, backwoods-hick rednecks, but legitimate, honest-to-God rednecks who wore tight Wrangler jeans to school, belonged to FFA and 4H, and skipped school on the first day of deer season.
However, we had a derogatory term for people who were considered too low-class to even be a redneck and it was the ultimate Growing up in southeastern Ohio, I was surrounded by rednecks.
If Jack Witcher had gone to my elementary school, he probably would have been called a rutter. In small-town Virginia in the late 60s, the Witchers are simply considered white trash.
Mom is ugly and works as a cashier at the grocery store. Twelve-year old Jack, though, is different.
Gladstein helps Jack out by giving him a ring to woo Myra Joyner and encouraging the boy to believe in himself.
This book is so well-written, and comparisons to To Kill A Mockingbird are much-deserved. Like Scout, Jack struggles with the loss of his innocence in the face of violence and injustice in his small-town environment.
He is a boy so punished by his circumstances, who desperately wants to understand things that are bigger than him. My only complaint about this book is the pacing.
There's a slow build-up, then it's rushed as soon as we hit the climax - sort of as if Wetta just wanted to be done and couldn't figure out how to finish it.
The result is less than fully satisfying, but only slightly so. There are so many levels to this book, so many ideas that are explored — class, race, faith, morals, justice, young love, obligation to family vs.
The more I think about it, the more I fall in love with it. This is a book that I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone. Jul 13, Mme. Recommended to Mme.
Shelves: suspense , fiction , coming-of-age. Truly, what impressed me the most-is the writer was 55 when he wrote, "If Jack's In Love", and it was his first novel!
Goes to show you, it does not matter who you are, where you come from, what age you are or rather or not others think you can write or not Who cares what others think, just do it!
What matters the most is what ones writing means to them. Stephen Wetta grew up in an environment with various types of people wi Truly, what impressed me the most-is the writer was 55 when he wrote, "If Jack's In Love", and it was his first novel!
Stephen Wetta grew up in an environment with various types of people with unusual personalities that became a milestone to his achievement of a good novel.
Once he realized all he had to do was to gather those experiences and put those memories on paper and the magic was on. He realized with some encouragement and resources he finally, managed to get it out there.
I must say that I do not understand why, Stephen Wetta, the author did not receive a standing debut from the press like other novelists this year. Who died, gave them a crown and made them King?
It was fascinating though, how I had to search every local bookstore in one of the most top 10 cities in the US to find a copy! Go figure!
Thank goodness, otherwise I would not have had a piece of his wonderful work added to my collection of books.
Like, after reading this fictional story, I found pieces of scenarios that Jack experienced similar to when I was a young teen.
So typical, were some of the characters in the writer's book. Kinda made you angry how stupid people really can be when confronted with the truth. Especially when they are bias and do not acknowledge it.
Just throwing prejudice attitudes out there like there was no tomorrow. On top of all of that, having the audacity to throw it at you as though you were yesterdays trash and going on about their business like it never happened.
Go figure again, lol! Although this novel was written during a very controversial time in American history. I appreciate the writer's bravery to use candid outburst in the story yet at the same time, knowing when to inject subtle approaches so as not to offend the reader.
He makes the reader lol because it is funny and sometimes dark with a little thrill of suspense to keep you from putting the book down.
I love the wonderfully short chapters and his deep passion. Good to know that people can still find courage just from reading a book.
Definitely, a family story and GoodReads View 1 comment. Feb 08, Debdanz rated it did not like it Shelves: coming-of-age , southern.
Don't know whether I'm going to be able to force myself to finish this one. Narrator is supposed to be a 12 year old boy- terribly unbelievable and very repetitive-- am only on page 75, yet if he's told me once, he's told me 20 times that his father is a bad, lazy, abusive slouch, his mother is ugly, and his brother is headed down the road to ruin as a bad seed.
Blech- forced myself to finish- waste of time, nobody likable in the whole book, pretentious author- ugh. I guess I'm the minority, but I felt bored with this book.
Yes, Jack's voice is fairly original, and I did read the whole thing, so there must have been some appeal. I kept waiting for it to get amazing considering the high ratings here , but it just didn't happen for me.
Jul 30, Jean V. Naggar Literary rated it it was amazing. If Jack's In Love is a coming-of-age story with a bite. If Jack's In Love has elements of all these themes, but the execution is what makes this book insanely readable and fresh.
Jack Witcher lives in a prejudiced small town where his family is considered white trash and are maligned by adults and children alike. A sort of double-inversion exists in this book where the Witcher family is the black sheep family of the town, and Jack, in turn, is the black sheep of the Witcher family.
This leaves Jack very much alone in the world. Jack is by far the smartest and, when the book starts, the most even-tempered Witcher, his brother and father both being some shade of bully and his mother being perpetually stretched too thin by her responsibilities.
Jack's personality makes him more similar to his peers than any of them are willing to admit, and family ties and the caste-like system of suburbia are major themes throughout this book.
Then, when the brother of Jack's love interest goes missing, Jack's antagonistic brother is the number one person of interest in the case.
Wetta uses the complex familial and social dynamics in Jack's life to explore ideas and questions of atavism, prejudice, and loyalty. How are we shaped by our families and genetics?
What do we owe our families, if anything? How do we rise above the seemingly intractable biases of small-minded people? If Jack's In Love is engaging and challenging, and the character Jack provides a unique narration that walks us through his story as he tries to make sense growing up and the heartbreak and anger that come along with it.
Nov 07, Rachel rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction. This is really a 4. Twelve-year old Jack has the misfortune of belonging to the Witcher family — the lowest family on the totem pole in the small Virginia town where he lives.
His father is frequently out of work, leaving his overworked mother to provide for the family. Jack happens to be in love with This is really a 4.
Jack enlists the help of his only friend, Mr. Can Jack overcome all the obstacles stacked against him? This novel is another great offering from Amy Einhorn Books.
Jack is such a realistic and authentic character that I instantly connected with him. I was rooting for him throughout the whole book. Jun 23, Lisa rated it it was ok.
I couldn't get into this book. I wonder if it was partly because I couldn't get into Stan's head. Jan 19, Catherine rated it it was amazing Shelves: small-town , , coming-of-age , dysfunctional-family.
Twelve-year-old Jack is a Witcher. His family is at the bottom of the social ladder in their s Virginia neighborhood. Their yard is full of junk, his dad is often unemployed, his mother is homely, and his older brother is a delinquent.
In other words, they're "white trash," barely above the sole colored family on the edge of the neighborhood. Even though Jack is a straight A student and an all-around good kid, only one pudgy neighborhood kid will hang out with him.
When Myra Joyner, the smartest girl in his grade, starts paying attention to him, of course Jack falls in love instantly.
Unfortunately, Myra's brother and Jack's brother are sworn enemies, and when Myra's brother disappears, Jack's brother is the logical suspect.
The Romeo and Juliet parallels are obvious, with the Witcher and Joyner clans having several confrontations. Instead of Friar Lawrence, Jack is counseled by an obese Jewish jeweler who was a little too creepy for me at points.
But this story was so much more than that. Jack doesn't seem to fit in anywhere. His father and brother expect him to act like a Witcher, which means fighting and keeping their secrets no matter how illegal or immoral, because "Witchers ain't snitchers.
Wetta brings both Jack and the setting to life. I felt Jack's struggle, fear, and frustration. I felt the s muggy summer heat and the racial tension.
The writing often reads more like a college professor which Wetta is than a teenage boy, but Jack is telling the story from some unknown point in the future, so he very well could have become a professor himself.
One example of this language is his repeated reference to the sagging family sofa as "carmine," never red or even dark red, but always carmine.
As odd as it occasionally sounds, it's the vivid professorial description that really brings the story to life. The dialogue is much more earthy and entirely believable for the characters.
Both focus on outsiders coming of age, but are clearly intended for adults. IJiL has language and violence that some parents may find objectionable, but isn't as gritty as DoB.
Jack is much more sheltered than DoB 's Marnie, partially because his family isn't nearly as depraved as hers, and partially because he's more the counterpart of Nelly.
If Jack's older brother, Stan, had a voice in this novel, it would be a much nastier novel. Both question the meaning and importance of family bonds.
Both start slowly and end a little too conveniently. And both are fantastic reads. Shelves: literary-fiction , new-classic , humor , fiction , romance , satire , drama.
I didn't expect to like this as much as I did, honestly. I picked it up because the premise sounded semi-interesting, but I wasn't expecting much.
I was had. Wetta's compelling prose hooked me by the end of the first couple of chapters, and by that time, it was a race to the finish two days later.
I give it 5 stars. Wetta's characters are unbelievably raw and real, he breathes life into the nuances of the individuals -- never stereotypes -- of the people populating his insular small town in the m I didn't expect to like this as much as I did, honestly.
Wetta's characters are unbelievably raw and real, he breathes life into the nuances of the individuals -- never stereotypes -- of the people populating his insular small town in the midst of all the upheavals of the '60s.
Jack Witcher, his twelve year-old protagonist, is extremely well developed. I typically hate books told at the perspective of anyone under the age of 18, because I've found that most authors have a terrible time trying to capture the despair, angst, self-involvement, and confusion of kids on the cusp of puberty.
Not so with Wetta's Jack, who is in turn hilariously naive, achingly self-conscious, youthfully reckless, and completely unforgettable. I haven't read such a memorable child in fiction since To Kill a Mockingbird!
His family are all developed with the same mastery -- his brutish brother, his complex and troubled father, and his self-restrained, demoralized mother.
Likewise, the neighborhood Jack haunts bursts off the page in full color, with all the ideology and politics of the 60s.
There's hippies, racism, antisemitism, atheism, John F. Kennedy, poverty, drugs, cigarettes, GTOs, and "white flight", all mulled over through the eyes of 12 year-old Jack.
There's enough sub-plots to keep any reader interested: a robbery, a fight, some mystery, young love, one boy versus the prejudice against his family, and a murder.
All of which tie together to form a cohesive whole that is never jumpy, poorly developed, or cliche. This is really fantastic fiction, and a work of startlingly deep thought on dilemmas that still plague the world, fifty years after the '60s.
Highly recommended! Feb 01, Tevia rated it liked it. Ok, first things first. I broke my bad language reading rule in reading this book.
I didn't stop, and I really should have. For this reason, I won't recommend this book to anyone wanting to staying away from books with major f-bombs.
Second, I've never read a more interesting, forthwith author bio than the one on this book cover. It was surprising to read that the author, Stepen Wetta, was a high school drop out, did drugs, served time in prison, but ended up with a PhD and a published book amid Ok, first things first.
It was surprising to read that the author, Stepen Wetta, was a high school drop out, did drugs, served time in prison, but ended up with a PhD and a published book amidst all that.
It was better than OK, but I didn't really like it like. It made me feel sad. I read it pretty quickly, however, considering the content. Basically the story is about a family, the Witchers, who are ostracized by the community they live in due to their low class status.
The family is then despised even deeper after a boy in their neighborhood goes missing and the eldest Witcher boy,Stan, is accused of killing the missing boy.
It was sad and frustrating reading this book. Although the story is fiction, it was still disturbing to read about how awful people could be to other people in a "normal" setting.
It's one thing to read about horrible tyrants taking over the world, but is a wholly different experience reading about regular citizens treating others so horribly.
I'm not naive. I know that the would is full of people that treat others horribly whether intentionally or ignorantly. I guess I just tend to avoid reading things like this because I don't really like reading sad things like this.
Februar gezeigt. Connie hat ebenfalls Probleme mit Nähe, zudem auch mit Intimität. Connie wünscht sich, im kommenden Sommer eine Bootsfahrt auf dem See zu unternehmen, und so setzt Jack sich das Ziel, endlich seine Unsicherheit gegenüber dem Wasser zu überwinden und Schwimmen zu lernen.
Clyde ist gern bereit zu helfen und gibt Jack Unterricht. Connie wird in der U-Bahn sexuell belästigt und verletzt. Dazu ist jedoch weiterer Unterricht erforderlich, denn Jack kann nicht kochen.
Clyde bittet Jack, Lucy gegenüber nicht zu erwähnen, dass er nun in ihre Affäre eingeweiht ist. Jack hat jetzt Perspektiven.
Und so findet er auch die Kraft, eine Bewerbung für eine neue Arbeitsstelle abzugeben. Lucy gegenüber plaudert er unbedacht einen Hinweis aus, dass Clyde ihm von ihrer Affäre mit dem Koch erzählt hat.
Daraufhin berichtet sie ihm im Gegenzug von einem Seitensprung Clydes. Nach einem gescheiterten Versuch, mit Jack intim zu werden, erklärt Connie, dass sie noch nicht für eine Penetration bereit sei.
Auf Connies Wunsch hin befriedigt Jack sie mit der Hand, während sie sich gegenseitig ihre jeweiligen Vorstellungen von Beziehung schildern.
Nach sechsmaligem Probekochen in der Küche von Lucy und Clyde lädt Jack Connie endlich zum selbstgekochten Dinner in die Wohnung der Freunde ein, er selber hat weder repräsentable Räume noch eine geeignete Kochstelle.
I have fulfilled all the education, training, experience, and knowledge requirements necessary for appointment by the Court as a private Child Custody Recommending Counselor mediator , Child Custody Evaluator, or Special Master, and have extensive knowledge and experience with the Court's processes and procedures.
My wife, Cindy, and I have a blended family with several children and grandchildren. Families and relationships are the top priority in both my personal and professional life.
I think we find meaning and purpose in our lives through our relationships with others.
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Jack bleibt Optimist. Ein Porträt. Thomas McCarthy. September , wo er etwa
Dass Hoffman in der Verfilmung nicht Filmgalerie Großenhain mitspielen sollte, sei einer spontanen Idee geschuldet, erinnert er sich: "John schlug wie aus dem Nichts heraus vor, dass ich auch Regie führen solle. Und so findet er auch die Kraft, eine Bewerbung für eine neue Arbeitsstelle abzugeben. Auf einer Pressekonferenz am Die Tribute von Panem - Mockingjay Teil 2. Schönefeld Boulevard. Jack In Love Inhaltsangabe & Details Video
Jack is in love! Best Crush Moments - Compilation - The Last Kids on Earth Nicht irgendwelche. Ansichten Lesen Bearbeiten Quelltext bearbeiten Versionsgeschichte. A Blast — Ausbruch. Er greift auf ein bewährtes Theaterstück zurück, stellt geschickt zwei Beziehungen - eine wachsende und eine vergehende - gegenüber und verlässt sich auf seine hervorragenden Darsteller. James Schamus: Theorie und Praxis. Brian A. Schreck Film Seymour Hoffman hat eine Menge kleiner, entzückender Regieeinfällen. Alle Tipps. Die ruhige Kameraarbeit und die behutsamen Schnitte Star Gegen Die Mächte Des Bösen Staffel 3 die Konzentration völlig auf den vier Hauptcharakteren. It does, however, Mediathek Die Kanzlei me want to be even that much nicer to those who are less fortunate or downtrodden because of circumstances that I don't know about. Jack's father comes up with a plan to rob Mr. I'm not naive. Full Cast and Crew. This is really a 4. To ask other Fensterputz Set questions about If Jack's in Loveplease sign up. It was better than OK, but I didn't really like it like. THIS delivered the low-stakes "awww, they so cute" happy that I was looking for, well above expectations. Sep 22, Chanie rated it liked it. My only complaint about this book is the pacing.
Wetta uses the complex familial and social dynamics in Jack's life to explore ideas and questions of atavism, prejudice, and loyalty.
How are we shaped by our families and genetics? What do we owe our families, if anything? How do we rise above the seemingly intractable biases of small-minded people?
If Jack's In Love is engaging and challenging, and the character Jack provides a unique narration that walks us through his story as he tries to make sense growing up and the heartbreak and anger that come along with it.
Nov 07, Rachel rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction. This is really a 4. Twelve-year old Jack has the misfortune of belonging to the Witcher family — the lowest family on the totem pole in the small Virginia town where he lives.
His father is frequently out of work, leaving his overworked mother to provide for the family. Jack happens to be in love with This is really a 4.
Jack enlists the help of his only friend, Mr. Can Jack overcome all the obstacles stacked against him? This novel is another great offering from Amy Einhorn Books.
Jack is such a realistic and authentic character that I instantly connected with him. I was rooting for him throughout the whole book. Jun 23, Lisa rated it it was ok.
I couldn't get into this book. I wonder if it was partly because I couldn't get into Stan's head. Jan 19, Catherine rated it it was amazing Shelves: small-town , , coming-of-age , dysfunctional-family.
Twelve-year-old Jack is a Witcher. His family is at the bottom of the social ladder in their s Virginia neighborhood.
Their yard is full of junk, his dad is often unemployed, his mother is homely, and his older brother is a delinquent.
In other words, they're "white trash," barely above the sole colored family on the edge of the neighborhood.
Even though Jack is a straight A student and an all-around good kid, only one pudgy neighborhood kid will hang out with him.
When Myra Joyner, the smartest girl in his grade, starts paying attention to him, of course Jack falls in love instantly.
Unfortunately, Myra's brother and Jack's brother are sworn enemies, and when Myra's brother disappears, Jack's brother is the logical suspect.
The Romeo and Juliet parallels are obvious, with the Witcher and Joyner clans having several confrontations.
Instead of Friar Lawrence, Jack is counseled by an obese Jewish jeweler who was a little too creepy for me at points. But this story was so much more than that.
Jack doesn't seem to fit in anywhere. His father and brother expect him to act like a Witcher, which means fighting and keeping their secrets no matter how illegal or immoral, because "Witchers ain't snitchers.
Wetta brings both Jack and the setting to life. I felt Jack's struggle, fear, and frustration. I felt the s muggy summer heat and the racial tension.
The writing often reads more like a college professor which Wetta is than a teenage boy, but Jack is telling the story from some unknown point in the future, so he very well could have become a professor himself.
One example of this language is his repeated reference to the sagging family sofa as "carmine," never red or even dark red, but always carmine.
As odd as it occasionally sounds, it's the vivid professorial description that really brings the story to life. The dialogue is much more earthy and entirely believable for the characters.
Both focus on outsiders coming of age, but are clearly intended for adults. IJiL has language and violence that some parents may find objectionable, but isn't as gritty as DoB.
Jack is much more sheltered than DoB 's Marnie, partially because his family isn't nearly as depraved as hers, and partially because he's more the counterpart of Nelly.
If Jack's older brother, Stan, had a voice in this novel, it would be a much nastier novel. Both question the meaning and importance of family bonds.
Both start slowly and end a little too conveniently. And both are fantastic reads. Shelves: literary-fiction , new-classic , humor , fiction , romance , satire , drama.
I didn't expect to like this as much as I did, honestly. I picked it up because the premise sounded semi-interesting, but I wasn't expecting much.
I was had. Wetta's compelling prose hooked me by the end of the first couple of chapters, and by that time, it was a race to the finish two days later.
I give it 5 stars. Wetta's characters are unbelievably raw and real, he breathes life into the nuances of the individuals -- never stereotypes -- of the people populating his insular small town in the m I didn't expect to like this as much as I did, honestly.
Wetta's characters are unbelievably raw and real, he breathes life into the nuances of the individuals -- never stereotypes -- of the people populating his insular small town in the midst of all the upheavals of the '60s.
Jack Witcher, his twelve year-old protagonist, is extremely well developed. I typically hate books told at the perspective of anyone under the age of 18, because I've found that most authors have a terrible time trying to capture the despair, angst, self-involvement, and confusion of kids on the cusp of puberty.
Not so with Wetta's Jack, who is in turn hilariously naive, achingly self-conscious, youthfully reckless, and completely unforgettable.
I haven't read such a memorable child in fiction since To Kill a Mockingbird! His family are all developed with the same mastery -- his brutish brother, his complex and troubled father, and his self-restrained, demoralized mother.
Likewise, the neighborhood Jack haunts bursts off the page in full color, with all the ideology and politics of the 60s.
There's hippies, racism, antisemitism, atheism, John F. Kennedy, poverty, drugs, cigarettes, GTOs, and "white flight", all mulled over through the eyes of 12 year-old Jack.
There's enough sub-plots to keep any reader interested: a robbery, a fight, some mystery, young love, one boy versus the prejudice against his family, and a murder.
All of which tie together to form a cohesive whole that is never jumpy, poorly developed, or cliche. This is really fantastic fiction, and a work of startlingly deep thought on dilemmas that still plague the world, fifty years after the '60s.
Highly recommended! Feb 01, Tevia rated it liked it. Ok, first things first. I broke my bad language reading rule in reading this book.
I didn't stop, and I really should have. For this reason, I won't recommend this book to anyone wanting to staying away from books with major f-bombs.
Second, I've never read a more interesting, forthwith author bio than the one on this book cover. It was surprising to read that the author, Stepen Wetta, was a high school drop out, did drugs, served time in prison, but ended up with a PhD and a published book amid Ok, first things first.
It was surprising to read that the author, Stepen Wetta, was a high school drop out, did drugs, served time in prison, but ended up with a PhD and a published book amidst all that.
It was better than OK, but I didn't really like it like. It made me feel sad. I read it pretty quickly, however, considering the content. Basically the story is about a family, the Witchers, who are ostracized by the community they live in due to their low class status.
The family is then despised even deeper after a boy in their neighborhood goes missing and the eldest Witcher boy,Stan, is accused of killing the missing boy.
It was sad and frustrating reading this book. Although the story is fiction, it was still disturbing to read about how awful people could be to other people in a "normal" setting.
It's one thing to read about horrible tyrants taking over the world, but is a wholly different experience reading about regular citizens treating others so horribly.
I'm not naive. I know that the would is full of people that treat others horribly whether intentionally or ignorantly. I guess I just tend to avoid reading things like this because I don't really like reading sad things like this.
It does, however, make me want to be even that much nicer to those who are less fortunate or downtrodden because of circumstances that I don't know about.
Maybe I will just stick with my sci-fi and fantasy genre Jul 04, Emi Bevacqua rated it really liked it Shelves: family-dysfunction , fiction.
I loved reading this funny book, set in suburban Virginia, and everybody in it, even the nasty people doing and saying awful things.
The Witcher lawn is littered with junk, there are screens missing from the windows, and the family car is a bit of a hoopty. The Witchers are ostracized by their judgmental better-to-do neighbors, and their standing plummets further when the elder Witcher son Stan is implicated in murder.
The main character, younger son Jack, is an honest, straight A student w I loved reading this funny book, set in suburban Virginia, and everybody in it, even the nasty people doing and saying awful things.
The main character, younger son Jack, is an honest, straight A student whose only friend after being abandoned by fellow social pariah Dickie Pudding is the town's 50 year old Jewish jeweler.
In the author's notes Wetta explains, "The Witchers of the world serve a cautionary purpose. There's something sacrificial about them.
They perform a social function. They set a bottom, a defining limit, to what we dread and fear about ourselves, and reassure us that we haven't reached it yet.
May 06, Chris rated it it was amazing Shelves: fiction. The author's flippant and self-deprecating bio on the dust jacket of the book hooked me. This book was suggested to me by a reader at our library.
It's a coming of age story set in the Richmond, VA suburbs of the 's. The author is a year older than me and I grew up miles north in the DC suburbs.
So those factors also clicked in my selection. It's great writing and you're immediately hooked by this humorously and darkly told tale of first love and family violence.
I read it in less than a The author's flippant and self-deprecating bio on the dust jacket of the book hooked me. I read it in less than a day.
They ought to read this one in the schools. Feb 07, Patricia rated it really liked it. I enjoyed this book a lot more than I expected too. It spoke to both adults and teens.
Nov 01, Larkin Avers rated it liked it Shelves: young-adult , thriller-suspense-crime-mystery , realistic-fiction , dysfunctional-families , written-by-man , special-editions-or-collections , small-town-vibes.
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Disclaimer: I read the ARC version of this novel, so I don't know how much was changed before publication.
This book was okay. The title makes it sound like a light-hearted coming-of-tale and even the summary sounds a little light.
This book IS more a coming-of age with a bit of grit rather than an investigative child crime sort of thing, even though it starts out with the imagining of finding a dead body.
Jack lives in what I call the "Boo Radley House". The neighborhood kids bully him and his Disclaimer: I read the ARC version of this novel, so I don't know how much was changed before publication.
The neighborhood kids bully him and his family because their house is poorly kept and his brother is cruel.
The only reason this kind of worked for me was because it was from the point of view of the outsider. All the love between the kids seems more like a filler and Jack's relationship with Gladstein isn't appropriate because he's teaching him to be predatory towards girls.
This book was just ehh, and of course the cliched ending of Jack going to Harvard, it's just ehh. I mostly really liked this book. I found it to be quite interesting and I really liked and felt for Jack, who was trying to figure out his family, his first love and his place in the world.
Another reviewer called it a coming of age novel with an edge and I think that describes it perfectly.
To me, the murder mystery was secondary to the story, but it did add a different twist and explained a lot about Jack's interactions with his family and community.
Altogether a good read and a unique story. Mar 22, Ansate rated it it was ok Shelves: er , arc , gave , away. I just didn't enjoy it at all.
He's too flat, too boring, too whiny. There's almost no suspense. It's just a grim slog. Jan 11, Lindsay rated it really liked it.
I gave this book a high rating simply for the way this author writes. The subtle, dry sense of humor and easy flow throughout the story made it difficult for me to put down.
The book itself was fairly predictable and somewhat anticlimactic, but still a fun read. A good author to further explore. Sep 22, Chanie rated it liked it.
This is classified as YA, but it reads also as adult material. The writing itself reads more like adult fiction.
Jack is also an admirable character struggling to understand those around him as they deeply fail him. The book is worth the read.
Jun 05, Maggie Aldrich rated it it was amazing. Really, really enjoyed this book. It was poignant, yet humorous at the same time!
Good stuff. Highly recommend to mid-older teens and adults. Jul 13, Michael A. Van Kerckhove rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction , Picked up a used copy at McKay's in Nashville when I lived there for a bit.
Sundance Film Festival seine Uraufführung. In den USA startete er am September , in Deutschland wurde er erstmals am Februar gezeigt.
Connie hat ebenfalls Probleme mit Nähe, zudem auch mit Intimität. Connie wünscht sich, im kommenden Sommer eine Bootsfahrt auf dem See zu unternehmen, und so setzt Jack sich das Ziel, endlich seine Unsicherheit gegenüber dem Wasser zu überwinden und Schwimmen zu lernen.
Clyde ist gern bereit zu helfen und gibt Jack Unterricht. Connie wird in der U-Bahn sexuell belästigt und verletzt.
Dazu ist jedoch weiterer Unterricht erforderlich, denn Jack kann nicht kochen. Clyde bittet Jack, Lucy gegenüber nicht zu erwähnen, dass er nun in ihre Affäre eingeweiht ist.
Jack hat jetzt Perspektiven. Und so findet er auch die Kraft, eine Bewerbung für eine neue Arbeitsstelle abzugeben. Lucy gegenüber plaudert er unbedacht einen Hinweis aus, dass Clyde ihm von ihrer Affäre mit dem Koch erzählt hat.
Daraufhin berichtet sie ihm im Gegenzug von einem Seitensprung Clydes. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs.
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Entdecke die Filmstarts Kritik zu "Jack In Love" von Philip Seymour Hoffman: Einmal hinter die Kamera treten und endlich das Regiezepter an sich reißen - viele. »Jack in Love«, das Regiedebüt von Philip Seymour Hoffman, richtet den Blick auf Menschen, deren Aussehen und Lebensweise als. Love Boat. Philip Seymour Hoffmann gibt sein Kinodebüt. Jahre liegt es eigentlich schon zurück, doch nun hat erlebt der oscargekrönte.
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