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Liked It2 of 2 members found this review helpful “There's something about boarding school books -- maybe it's seeing how the other half lives -- but I just can't resist them. Although I was first attracted to The Disreputable History ... by the boarding school setting, it offers so much more. |
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“Lockhart has created a unique heroine in Frankie.
chodgens wrote this review yesterday. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Frankie attends an exclusive prep school, is a sophomore, and dates one of the most popular guys on campus. Why isn't this enough? Because her boyfriend is a part of an elite, super-exclusive, all-male secret society, and Frankie is having none of it. She plots to become a member, and the outcome and consequences are what make her a powerful, modern heroine.”
“Amazing show of just how sexist today's generation still is. People believe that they're so high minded, and then, brilliant women are underestimated my men. Really loved having a book about a powerhouse woman.”
Sydney S wrote this review 3 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“funny but also touching”
Kelsey T wrote this review 4 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“It was really good. If you read carefully you will find something cool. Hope you enjoy it”
Makena M wrote this review 6 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“It started out kind of slow and boring but the end of the novel is what endeared me to it. Frankie is living every girl's dream by becoming a popular senior's girlfriend in her sophmore year at an exclusive boarding school. Yet, she isn't quite satisfied. She finds out her boyfriend is part of a secret society for males only that has existed as part of campus life for decades (her dad was even once a member). Frankie struggles with feelings of being considered as a lesser person by her boyfriend because she is a female, she fights against this by secretly taking a part in his secret society.
Gita G wrote this review 6 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I liked the premise of the book, that is how it dealt with the idea that females and males are treated differently even in this day and age. I liked how Frankie fought back and still struggled with her feelings of inadequacy. The ending was poignant because in some ways she won and in some ways she lost but in all ways her feelinsg revealed were pretty realistic. However, I did not like the wordy and pretentious prose and the over extended boring passages where Frankie discusses vocabulary or includes excerpts from her badly written essays.
Not a horrible teen book, just not the best executed, still a great lesson. ”“Great character, great plot, love the idea around getting the secret society crowd to be at the beck and call of a young girl. ”
Owen M wrote this review 7 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Go Frankie! Filled with plenty of angst and teenage drama, this is one for any teen who finds him or herself wondering "why?"”
Melissa S wrote this review 10 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“i love this book, i want to be frankie's new best friend, and i want a a place in her future world order. i wanted her to win though. i totally love this book and it made me smile the whole time. i started talking like frankie.”
Harriet B wrote this review 12 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Set in a fictional New England boarding school, reminded me of Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep in its exquisite dissections of privileged teen socialization patterns. Unlike Prep's middle-class heroine, however, Frankie Landau-Banks is herself an elite, and thus obsessed with inequalities of gender rather than class, along with more general manifestations of authority a la Bentham's panopticon/Foucault’s Discipline & Punish. The book chronicles Frankie's attempt to protest the social order by infiltrating her school's all-male secret society and masterminding pranks inspired by San Francisco's Cacophony Society, Robert Louis Stevenson's Suicide Club, and Portland's Santarchists.
Karam wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
A surprising, smart, and unique work of teen fiction. The book's quirky structure and celebrations of Frankie's cleverness are charming for the most part, though they occasionally made me grit my teeth. I found Frankie an impossible character to believe in, but this didn't prevent me from wanting to emulate her. I loved most its spot-on observations of boy behavior and the common compromises made by girls who want to be around boys. ”
