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• What did you think of Criss Cross?

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  I finished Criss Cross by Lynn Rae Perkins ... and loved/hated it. I didn't know what to think.
  
  On the one hand it felt like a hippie experiment (two columns with the stories of two characters - interesting). On the other, just when I start getting into the characters, I feel like the author just cuts it short.
  
  Was I supposed to "get it"? Maybe I didn't.

  guiltlessreader started this discussion 5 years ago. ( reply | permalink )

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  atleast 

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  Sounds interesting. I haven't read it yet. I did however enjoy The Higher Power of Lucky. Very original.
  
  Still slogging through The Story of Mankind. Only eleven chapter left!

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  Holly H 

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  I just finished it, and I thought it was ok and odd. I laughed out loud in a couple parts, and I liked the handling of the jock/donkey.
  
  I think there were too many characters for a book that size, and I'm with you, by the time I figured out who was who, the book ended.
  
  I think the style "hippiness" was supposed to lead one to think of the universality of the adolescent experience, and the unidetifiability (?) of the speaker at times points to that common experience, too. It doesn't matter who is speaking when, because sooner or later everyone thinks it or says it-- so maybe the blurred edges between characters was part of that goal as well. Maybe?

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  Jada 

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  I haven't read it

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