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Brent Hartinger

Auteur de Geography Club

19+ oeuvres 2,502 utilisateurs 128 critiques 8 Favoris

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Œuvres de Brent Hartinger

Geography Club (2003) 1,063 exemplaires
The Order of the Poison Oak (2005) 345 exemplaires
The Last Chance Texaco (2004) 251 exemplaires
Grand & Humble (2006) 156 exemplaires
Three Truths and a Lie (2016) 141 exemplaires
Project Sweet Life (2009) 90 exemplaires
The Elephant of Surprise (2013) 64 exemplaires
Shadow Walkers (2011) 52 exemplaires
Dreamquest (2007) 46 exemplaires
The Otto Digmore Difference (2017) 15 exemplaires
The Road to Amazing (2016) 14 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

Young Warriors: Stories of Strength (2005) — Contributeur — 624 exemplaires
21 Proms (2007) — Contributeur — 301 exemplaires
The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves (2012) — Contributeur — 260 exemplaires

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Stupid internet. I am not writing this review again. It's well-executed; definitely the best 'gay teen' book I've read. Not genius, but you can't have everything. Cliches are used, but not with an overly heavy hand. I cared a surprising amount about the characters and wanted to read more---lots more. I still want to know who 'patient zero' was!
 
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caedocyon | 44 autres critiques | Feb 23, 2024 |
Easily my favorite in this universe so far!
 
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NeoSoulNoona | 3 autres critiques | Oct 3, 2023 |
Geography Club is the story of high school student, Russel Middlebrook and his attempts and desire to keep other students from finding out he’s gay, stop feeling alone, and find someone like him he can talk to. This is told in first person.


This YA story is a fast and easy read. It’s about Russell trying to fit into an acceptable group in high school and not get put into “Outcast Island” as he called it, like Brian Bund. The author did a good job of describing the groups that were “In” and “Out” in high school.

The author wrote Russel as having a self-deprecating sense of humor which came across well. However, Russel came across as a bit too grown up to me, like he was an adult trying to talk like a high school kid. The other thing that seemed off to me was Russell having numerous epiphanies about his behavior and other students over a couple months. I can see maybe a couple insights but there were too many. Russell didn’t come across as an insightful person, not like his friend, Min. The other thing that bothered me about Russel was not so much that the story was in first person, but that Russel consistently broke the fourth wall. Whenever he did, I was thrown out of the story and it was noticeable. I didn’t care for it.

There isn’t much else to say about this story since it's just an average read. I might read the last book in the series to see if Russel ever gets back with Kevin, but unless I can borrow the other books in the series; I don’t think I’ll read them. This is a quick, easy read that does a decent job of showing us readers the worries gay and outcast high school students go through every day. I give Geography Club 3 Stars.


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Penumbra1 | 44 autres critiques | Oct 11, 2022 |
Sequal to the Geography Club. Teens go to work at a summer camp. Will there be romance on the lake?
 
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Lake_Oswego_UCC | 11 autres critiques | Jun 12, 2022 |

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Œuvres
19
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5
Membres
2,502
Popularité
#10,263
Évaluation
½ 3.7
Critiques
128
ISBN
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