I just finished reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. I am not certain what all of the hype was about that book. It was a good story, yes; however, nothing extraordinary. I took me until a little less than half way through the book to really feel like I wanted to continue reading it. That being said, there is nothing wrong with the book. It is a young adult's story of misfits and outcasts and what it is that makes us all the same no matter how left out we feel. Maybe it's because I'm tired of the moral that the story focused on, or maybe it's because my friend talked it up so much that there's no way it ever would have lived up to the hype. She told me that The Outsiders possibly changed her entire outlook on life. I don't think that I took into consideration the fact that she read this book for the first time years ago when the message that this book drives home was probably new to her. My reading for the first time as the jaded and cynical person that I am, I'm sure took away some of the magic of this story. I guess, I just don't really know what to think of it...
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