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I doubt many people will read this review, as there are already over a thousand reviews of this marvelous book (most of them five stars). Nothing I write here will do this book justice. It has been compared to "To Kill a Mockingbird," and I must say it shares with that book the ability to take you into the mind of a child with amazing clarity. But it is so much more. This is an amazing book and should be appreciated on its own for what it is. It is so many things - a coming of age story, a period piece of life in a small town during the early 1960's when so much change was taking place. But it is also a book about magic. Some of it real - mystical occurrences that have you wondering what was real and what was imaginary. Yet also the magic in a child's mind that sees wonder in the world of imagination, where adults have been reduced to seeing only facts and things. Even in the prologue and the acknowledgements Mr. McCammon calls to mind all of the things that brought magic into his life as a child and reminds us of what we lose when we grow up. When I picked up this book, I thought I was getting one of the author's horror stories (having forgotten the reviews I read when I bought it). When I saw that it was a book about a 13 year-old Cory Mackenson, growing up in the small town of Zephyr, Alabama in the early 1960's, I thought I had made a mistake in my choice. I soon found I was dead wrong. This book deserves my five star rating as much as any book that I have read. It is a wonder. The writing is on a par with the best writing that I've experienced. The book holds your interest and hooks you from the beginning and takes you to wondrous places you've never imagined - from mysterious sea monsters, to a voodoo-style black woman who is only known as "The Lady," to murder mystery that builds throughout to a thrilling climax, to racial tensions, falling bombs, dinosaurs that should be extinct, spirits coming back from the grave, ghost cars with dead riders - and all this told so convincingly from the mind of thirteen year-old Cory. If childhood, magic, mystery, real people, wonder and thrills fit into your idea of an exciting novel, by all means pick up this book and read it right now! You won't be disappointed.


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Boy Life Robert McCammon Books Reviews

I'd never considered the impact of supermarkets on milk-delivery, and as a kid I lived through that seemingly innocuous culture change. As the charming youngster-main character in Boy's Life experiences it though, his dad being a milkman, it is a crisis.

This is a mystery with subplots introducing clues and revealing character, convincingly told through a boy's voice. Details allow the reader to know what life would be like growing up in 1960s rural Alabama. I'm slightly older, and I was a girl in a tiny community in Maryland at the time the novel takes place. I could relate to the child's universe depicted. The importance of bikes, the intoxicating freedom of summer vacation, exploring the woods alone, the perils of big kids bullying, these were so well evoked; I'd almost forgotten how crucial those things once were!

The book is more than a nostalgia piece. Bad things happen and part of growing up is recognizing evil and figuring out how to cope with it. But that's not all; along the way the kid solves a thrilling suspenseful murder-mystery.

This is story telling at its best!
Good gravy, I love this book! The narrator tells us he was born in 1952, and he describes the world of Zephyr, Alabama as he knew it in the early 1960s. I was about his age then, so a story like this, where Cory Mackenson's dog Rebel is his best friend, where Cory has a bike named Rocket whose headlight is a magic eye, where he and his friends Ben, Johnny, and Davy Ray sprout wings and fly to celebrate the first day of summer vacation, where Cory and his father witness a car plunging into the dark waters of an abandoned quarry with the car's skull-tattooed driver handcuffed to the steering wheel, where adventure and diabolical villains and noble heroes await around every corner--a story like this blows air back into the lungs of the boy inside me. For me, there are riches of nostalgia and sentiment in Boy's Life, and I freely admit the attraction for me and, no doubt, for many "boys" of my age, but I think others will love this book too. It's a celebration of our past that helps us remember what we value and cherish in the world and in each other. Slip between the covers of this book and you will find a realm both fantastic and real, innocent and tainted. It is haunted by monsters and ghosts and other-worldly creatures like Old Moses and Snowdon and a monkey named Lucifer, inspired by heroes like Cory's father Tom, the geriatric gunslinger Owen Cathcoate, and the brave Johnny Wilson who fights his bully and becomes a chief, charmed by Chile Willow, a girl as beautiful as Cinderella, and by the Lady, an ancient black woman with magical powers for the good, and it is threatened by a rough bunch of scoundrels the likes of Gordo and Gotha Branlin, Biggun Blaylock and his boys, and--most of all--the evil genius who engineered the dead man's one-way trip to the bottom of the quarry called Saxon's Lake. Good gravy and stuffing, tender turkey, cranberry sauce, and creamed onions--this is a Thanksgiving feast for story lovers. Boy's Life has a permanent spot on my shelf of treasures, right beside my copy of Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, the deer skull I found in the woods, the telescope Gramp gave me, and my Fantastic Four comic book collection!
I doubt many people will read this review, as there are already over a thousand reviews of this marvelous book (most of them five stars). Nothing I write here will do this book justice. It has been compared to "To Kill a Mockingbird," and I must say it shares with that book the ability to take you into the mind of a child with amazing clarity. But it is so much more. This is an amazing book and should be appreciated on its own for what it is. It is so many things - a coming of age story, a period piece of life in a small town during the early 1960's when so much change was taking place. But it is also a book about magic. Some of it real - mystical occurrences that have you wondering what was real and what was imaginary. Yet also the magic in a child's mind that sees wonder in the world of imagination, where adults have been reduced to seeing only facts and things. Even in the prologue and the acknowledgements Mr. McCammon calls to mind all of the things that brought magic into his life as a child and reminds us of what we lose when we grow up. When I picked up this book, I thought I was getting one of the author's horror stories (having forgotten the reviews I read when I bought it). When I saw that it was a book about a 13 year-old Cory Mackenson, growing up in the small town of Zephyr, Alabama in the early 1960's, I thought I had made a mistake in my choice. I soon found I was dead wrong. This book deserves my five star rating as much as any book that I have read. It is a wonder. The writing is on a par with the best writing that I've experienced. The book holds your interest and hooks you from the beginning and takes you to wondrous places you've never imagined - from mysterious sea monsters, to a voodoo-style black woman who is only known as "The Lady," to murder mystery that builds throughout to a thrilling climax, to racial tensions, falling bombs, dinosaurs that should be extinct, spirits coming back from the grave, ghost cars with dead riders - and all this told so convincingly from the mind of thirteen year-old Cory. If childhood, magic, mystery, real people, wonder and thrills fit into your idea of an exciting novel, by all means pick up this book and read it right now! You won't be disappointed.