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The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

I did not expect it to be so fucking awesome.

>> No.1849782

Contemporary shit if you ask me

>> No.1849785

Highly underrated book, actually. This is the first time I'm seeing it mentioned on /lit/ but yeah, I liked the metaphor and how it was sort of representative of over conformity, especially how it found the roots of it. (I also don't like reading first person perspective so that was good too)

>> No.1849810

I guess /lit/ doesn't like it

>> No.1849811

>>1849810
I guess /lit/ is gay

>> No.1849814

>>1849810

I haven't read it, never seen it mentioned here either so I'm guesing I'm not alone. I'll keep an eye out for it though.

>> No.1849824

Movie was pretty cool too

>> No.1849830

>>1849824
Better than the book OP, the movie was went way more into it

>> No.1849853

>>1849775

I like "I am the Cheese" better but Chocolate War is good. Robert Cormier was one of my favourites in jr. high.

>> No.1849963

I was fucking tired of the whole prep school setting after reading A Separate Peace and The Catcher in the Rye so I hated this book

>> No.1850315

>read in middle school
>shit was cash
>got into T.S. Eliot in high school
>mindfuckish connection
>shit is still cash now that i look back on it

>> No.1850340

Is this book about child labor used to farm coco beans?

>> No.1850346

i just watched the dead poets society today and it reminded me of this book. love it.

do i dare disturb the universe?