Broken...
Aug 19th 2009, 4:08 am
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hmmmm...nice
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Broken...
just finished reading a very nice book, Broken by Daniel Clay...
Until that fateful afternoon, Skunk Cunningham had been a normal little girl, playing on the curb in front of her house. Rick Buckley had been a normal geeky teenager, hosing off his brand-new car. Bob Oswald had been a normal sociopathic single father of five slutty daughters, charging furiously down the sidewalk. Then Bob was beating Rick to a bloody pulp, right there in the Buckleys' driveway, and life on Drummond Square was never the same again.
Inspired by Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird, Clay's brilliantly observed and darkly funny novel follows the sudden unraveling of a suburban community after a single act of thoughtless cruelty.
Until that fateful afternoon, Skunk Cunningham had been a normal little girl, playing on the curb in front of her house. Rick Buckley had been a normal geeky teenager, hosing off his brand-new car. Bob Oswald had been a normal sociopathic single father of five slutty daughters, charging furiously down the sidewalk. Then Bob was beating Rick to a bloody pulp, right there in the Buckleys' driveway, and life on Drummond Square was never the same again.
Inspired by Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird, Clay's brilliantly observed and darkly funny novel follows the sudden unraveling of a suburban community after a single act of thoughtless cruelty.
Aug 19th 2009, 4:12 am
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Re: Broken...
Funny name for a normal litle girl.
Aug 19th 2009, 5:48 am
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Re: Broken...
If the blurb is from the book then surely it is American? (E.g., sidewalk.)
Plus no-one in Britain would ever call their daughter Skunk.
Plus no-one in Britain would ever call their daughter Skunk.
Aug 19th 2009, 6:19 am
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Aug 19th 2009, 6:23 am
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Re: Broken...
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas- one to avoid, unless you're fifteen.
Aug 19th 2009, 7:48 am
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Re: Broken...
well, at least I know the difference between the words 'far' and 'for'......the phrase I assume you meant was "...far less read a book'.....
p.s. A good win for Celtic last weekend eh !
Aug 19th 2009, 8:04 am
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Re: Broken...
And, yes, the Tims did well.... Cant take that away from them....
Whats your next point, caller????
