"That was the secret of the world's agony, and the reason crime—and, yes, sin—would always prevail. Because the criminal, whether a rapist or a burglar, loves his crime. That's why rehabilitation was impossible. You had to get rid of the love, the passion, first. And that would never happen." ...
Not to boast, but for almost the past 15 years I've read more than a hundred books a year. I only mention that fact to show the relatively late start that I got on serious reading. Sure I read quite a bit when I was younger, but I kind of went from reading Encyclopedia Brown and The Hardy Boys ...
In I Am The Cheese, Robert Cormier tells of a young boy living in Monument, Massachusetts. At ten o'clock in the morning, Adam Farmer sets out for Rutterburg, Vermont by bicycle. During his journey, Adam meets the inhabitants of the small towns in New England although determined to arrive at his ...
In first picking up this book, I noticed its rather dark cover and the contrasting red car. Obviously, this car is important, and cars in general must have some role in this story because of the junk yard depicted on the front cover. However, all of these details made me feel disconnected because...
Enter the world of Eugene, who, like many of the characters about whom author Robert Cormier writes, resides in the quiet recesses of Frenchtown. It's a town like most others in Massachusetts, populated by hard-working career men and filled with an assortment of secrets that simmer just below the...
This book was originally reviewed on my blog, Books from Bleh to Basically Amazing.Have you ever found yourself rooting for the bad guy? Knowing that the character deserves every bad thing coming his way, but hoping that, somehow, things will work out better in the end? I don't know that I had e...
ROBERT CORMIERI was lucky to read this book and not other Robert Cormier books which are much bleaker and darker. This is a book that takes place in the years following WWII. Racial prejudice against Jews is still strong. Henry and his parents have relocated to a different town to escape the memo...
"Nightmares ended when you woke up. Guilt never ended, worst in the dark of night but with you all the time, day or night." —In the Middle of the Night, P. 86 Robert Cormier never bothers with quaint sayings about how everything will be okay if we just keep a positive attitude, and the only ...
There's really no book I love more than We All Fall Down. I first read it almost ten years ago, I still keep my copy in my sock drawer and read it probably once a year. Robert Cormier's well known for his dark, depressing writing and unflinching look at everything wrong with human nature, but thi...
tI’m trying very hard not to like this book. I know that sounds prejudiced, but at least I’m honest. In fact, I decided after being introduced to Robert Cormier’s style that I would not like this book. I have always been a fan of happy endings.t(Let me clarify: by happy endings, I don’t mean “And...