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we read I Am the Cheese in 8th grade or, I did we were separated into groups and each group was supposed to read a different book and explain it to the class. it was I Am the Cheese; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Jacob Have I Loved; aaaaand... a fourth one. Number the Stars? anyway, nobody did what they were supposed to, that class was completely out of control but I read I Am the Cheese, and, I didn't get much out of it on paper, I like the idea of this story about a kid on a trip to see his dad and the details are just kinda fuzzy and wrong and he's really paranoid about something following him and the details of reality are not quite adding up because his memory's messed up and even before that he'd been lied to his whole life but like all children's literature assigned in middle school in the 90's it was written in the 70's by an elderly person remembering the 1930's so like he encounters a gang of popcorn eating thugs who eat popcorn and throw popcorn at him so of course a modern kid is gonna be like "what are you talking about? this isn't a thing that happens. why is your idea of a gang themed around their proximity to snack foods" or we would if we'd actually read it but instead it was just me because all my friends were in the Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry group and they were having, a total blast, it was completely unfair, I got stuck with a bunch of quiet weirdos and pretty read the book for lack of anything better to do, trying to make sense of a book that's already pretty disorienting with a peer group that was mostly just like "hah. cheese. I donno, I didn't read it, did you read it?" I guess I already spoiled it, it's shutter island, or owl creek bridge, however you like it. the... it didn't happen, the journey he's describing is all in his head and he's applying details from the mental facility he's in into the story. but it wasn't exactly a magical journey to begin with, the kid mostly would just not shut up about his bike. or he'll be like "the sign just said 'eats.' amy would've liked that, and I do too. nice and simple" and I'm like "shut up" then at the end his shrink is like "hm we should kill him :sinister:" then the last chapter is him regressing back into the bike fantasy. ok. probbly not a great book for a 12 year old, honestly, especially in the environment of, everybody is laughing because the book is called I Am the Cheese. I wonder if I'd get more out of it now
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Cubone posted:I Am the Cheese I am the best character on the show
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