Bobbie L. (nascargal) reviewed Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge on + 352 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 8
This is a shocking and very disturbing book. It is very graphic and not for the faint of heart. It is, however, a sad commentary on our society and how no one seems to feel that people are fully responsible for their own actions and choices.
Kristen S. (ULookSoPrecious) reviewed Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge on + 8 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
A riveting, but disturbing account of the pre-meditated murder of Bobby Kent by his closest friends. It's hard to wrap your mind around the fact that this is a true story. Very well-written, but if you're easily disturbed you might want to skip it.
Helpful Score: 4
I had this read in three evenings... I couldn't seem to put it down. I'm a Mom, and I'm glad I read it...any parent should. I don't want to give anything away, but here's some of the reveiws;
"A COMPELLING ACCOUNT THAT READS LIKE FICTION...MUST READING FOR ANYONE WHO CARES ABOUT JUSTICE...[AND]FOR ANY PARENT WHO CARES ABOUT CHILDREN AND WHAT DANGERS LURK IN OUR MALLS AND STREETS AND SCHOOLS." --Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"A DEEPLY DISTURBINB BOOK, AN INDICTMENT OF SUBRUBAN VALUES AND OF AN AIMLESS, VIOLENT MIDDLE-CLASS YOUTH CULTURE THAT IS DEPRAVED BECAUSE IT IS MORALLY--NOT ECONOMICALLY--DEPRIVED." --The New York Times Book Reveiw
"A COMPELLING ACCOUNT THAT READS LIKE FICTION...MUST READING FOR ANYONE WHO CARES ABOUT JUSTICE...[AND]FOR ANY PARENT WHO CARES ABOUT CHILDREN AND WHAT DANGERS LURK IN OUR MALLS AND STREETS AND SCHOOLS." --Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"A DEEPLY DISTURBINB BOOK, AN INDICTMENT OF SUBRUBAN VALUES AND OF AN AIMLESS, VIOLENT MIDDLE-CLASS YOUTH CULTURE THAT IS DEPRAVED BECAUSE IT IS MORALLY--NOT ECONOMICALLY--DEPRIVED." --The New York Times Book Reveiw
Michele R. (hampdengurl) reviewed Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge on + 6 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Wow, this book is a page turner. While your reading this you start thinking....this can't be true,but it is. Very disturbing and shocking. Great read ..page turner.I do recommend this book for people who have teenagers.
Helpful Score: 1
This is the true story of seven kids in Florida, white, mostly middle class and loved by their parents, but who knew how to get their own way. They got together and killed the best friend of one, who was, indeed, a hateful bully and rapist, but the lack of human feeling of the seven is appalling. You also wonder why some of them, who had not been injured by the victim, let themselves go along at all. It was as if no one had any idea of the seriousness of what was being planned. Their stupidity is amazing, too, and they were speedily caught.
The most powerful writing comes at the end, after the account of how the seven were convicted and sentenced. Almost all their relatives "shrieked" that the sentences were unfair..."He wasn't the only one." "...She made a mistake, that's all." "She was a dumb kid who was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
It ends, "They did not say this: My child is a murderer. I am sick with shame. When I think of what my child did to another human being, I want to die myself.
No one said that. Not one person."
A lesson for our day.
Good literature, it isn't, and there are some annoying inconsistencies, but the case is worth knowing about, and the ending is satisfying.
The most powerful writing comes at the end, after the account of how the seven were convicted and sentenced. Almost all their relatives "shrieked" that the sentences were unfair..."He wasn't the only one." "...She made a mistake, that's all." "She was a dumb kid who was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
It ends, "They did not say this: My child is a murderer. I am sick with shame. When I think of what my child did to another human being, I want to die myself.
No one said that. Not one person."
A lesson for our day.
Good literature, it isn't, and there are some annoying inconsistencies, but the case is worth knowing about, and the ending is satisfying.
