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- From: alison (@ webcacheh03a.cache.pol.co.uk)
on: Sun Jul 1 09:03:46
This book has the most boring description in the world the only reason I would ever actually want to read it-without being forced by my overly sized english teacher-is if I was having trouble sleeping. Who would actually get enjoyment out of reading about a boy and his bird. For me the highlight of the book is when the bird is killed it is the only decent thing that happens to Billy throughout the day maybe now he will realise there is more to life than a stupid bird. For Hell's sake he calls it Kes talk about originality and imagination that boy has none. This is by far the most boring book I have ever read and it has been torture trying to study the damn thing. The description of the estate drags on through a whole damn chapter and by the end of reading it I wanted to burn every single copy of the book. The book does not make me sympathise with Billy for you don't even know what he is feeling. Throughout the whole book there is no emotion and is just a plain wash of long and boring dull description. If this is what Barry Hines was trying to achieve in Kestrel for a Knave then well done you achieved it well, but books are suppose to captivate the readers minds and hearts and drag them into the story. Personally I fell the Beano comic strip does that more for me than Kestrel for a knave does and ever will. I recoomend this book to isomniacs and those who enjoy a good challange because I asure you this book is a challange to get to the end of. To put it simply I think this book is a pile of SHITE.
- From: oleary (@ p2124-ip02motosinmat.mie.ocn.ne.jp)
on: Sat Sep 29 00:29:52
its from the dandy..not the beano
you shoud keep a dictionary by you for the long words..
start off with easier bird books..to kill a mockingbird..or big birds` big book of birds and then progress..youre getting ahed of yerself lass..
- From: tonk Lsd (@ web-cache2.edex.net.uk)
on: Mon Oct 1 06:32:47
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- From: janeil armando harris (@ 200.50.87.190)
on: Wed Nov 14 19:19:46
i think this book want fukin way it is bear shite a big bullin blasted bird and a bullin boy.you no i told this book to kiss my doggy many times i personally wouldn't asign this book to none of my firends who agree just say yes.big boty bird!!!
- From: barry hinds (@ host213-1-69-70.btinternet.com)
on: Tue Dec 11 16:27:30
hi my name is john i really like your story i think it is good.even now i am bad in school but your video and book is really good and i hope you bring an other one out soon because i really injoy them.
- From: mike (@ host213-1-141-17.btinternet.com)
on: Sun Jan 13 06:34:28
i have just read this book for school and i agree with alison this book is a pile of SHITE
- From: Caroline (@ bess-proxy4.hants.gov.uk)
on: Tue Jan 22 09:43:23
hi, i'm caroline. i'm reading the book for english. though it is not my normal type of book, i am finding it very interesting. those of you who think it's shite, go copulate with yourself!!!!!!!!!!!
- From: MICHAEL .J. EVANS (@ 193.133.202.209)
on: Thu Jan 31 05:37:19
i read this book as part of my GCSE essay and i touhght it was OK we had to watch the film and compare it to the book i would say the film is far better than the book and i would like to wish MR Hines all the best for his future books
- From: Stef (@ 195.194.162.113)
on: Mon Feb 4 05:59:54
I think most of you are missing the point here.
Growing up in a northern mining town in the 60's and 70's was a grim existence, the only prospects you had were to follow your brother/dad/grandad/uncle down the pit and if you were a girl you would marry a bloke who worked down the mine, keep house and have children who would, in turn, work down the pit.
Barry Hines captures this grim existence brilliantly and the kestrel is very symbolic.
The kestrel is Billy's only form of escapism from this grey life that surrounds him.
Those of you who didn't like the book should get a life. Stop reading Enid Blyton and do some real thinking, you never know you might enjoy it!
- From: Kate Shakespeare (@ webcache-10.th.ifl.net)
on: Fri Feb 15 04:59:46
I think that Stef has captured exactly the essence of the book. I would not choose to read this book of my own accord, however, after having read it as my set text for GCSE lit. exam, I believe that those of you who "think it's shite" firstly, need to learn to spell correctly before you make a tit of yourself again, and secondly, need to learn to appreciate literature and differentiate between quality and personal taste.
- From: Kay (@ webcache-10.th.ifl.net)
on: Fri Feb 15 05:05:47
Hello. I found this book hard to read at first because of the strong accent, considering I a midlands kinda gal. I understand why people find it dull since it doesn'thave the most spectaular plot. However, you've got to think of think book in it's historical content and then you can appreciate that it's like that poem by Simon Armitage..."It ain't what you do/ It's what it does to you." It is aiming to show you how what seemed to be a blip in the Industrial Revolution, affected the lives of so many people concerned.
- From: phill (@ 62.30.0.2)
on: Thu Mar 7 14:44:27
i am reading this book for english and i find it has a great deal of pathos. this novel contains funnie parts. although, there are also some very serious and sad parts. this is an extremely good story to write an essay on. the novel explores many themes. including rebellion, respect, homelife, school life and manny manny more. also many key terms on the word, sentence and whole text level. i think that anyone who thinks that this story is rubbish, has not read it properly.
- From: brad (@ 212.250.100.122)
on: Mon Mar 18 07:26:53
.this book is a pile of shite and tell billy he needs a fukin wash the dity bas=ard
- From: Anon (@ 195.226.142.90)
on: Mon Mar 18 07:53:17
I also am doing KES for GCSE and I really do agree with some of you that it's absoluty boring. But then again I have to do it for GCSE, so I really don't have any choice.
I didn't like the book at all, the only good part about it is that it wastes lesson time and so does the film!
- From: muppet (@ spider-loh-ta044.proxy.aol.com)
on: Wed Mar 20 16:36:28
this book is SO BORING i wudnt recomend it to ne 1 unless they are doing a GCSE
- From: fee (@ 62.30.0.2)
on: Fri Mar 22 13:16:16
im doing coursework on this book its so boring i like liturature but fuking hell writing two essays for coursework on kez is fuking hard as its aload of shite
- From: hoja (@ spider-loh-ta022.proxy.aol.com)
on: Sun Mar 31 15:56:52
i've gt my GCSE'S dis year am gana cook it up big time only bcoz of dis book...i agree tht the book isnt wot everyone might be interested in however its still loads of crap after readin it !!! y cant they read somethin better for GCSE'S is dis the only book lest of earth ??????? anyway...jus hope dat i do good init. k guys
- From: Borris (@ mch2-t4-2.mcbone.net)
on: Sun Apr 7 12:04:05
This book is the greatest trash that has ever been produced!!!!!!!!!!!!I have to read in class (Germany (Munic)) and i have to create a folder about it....
- From: Chema (@ mch2-t4-1.mcbone.net)
on: Tue Apr 9 10:52:10
Hola, es una libra muy mal. Ahora lee otra libra!
- From: Ben (@ 195.144.131.10)
on: Wed Apr 24 06:12:19
It was a good book but also boring. Some bits were well discripted well such as the bit in the cinema. But Alison you should get a life!
- From: Simmy D (@ host213-122-1-178.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
on: Sun Apr 28 08:45:00
Its wierd. The variation in the set text's for GCSE is extreme. I am having to do 'A kestrel for a Knave' however some people are getting to read stimulating books such as 'Lord of the Flies'.
Personally I thought the book was very generic in its format but written excellently.
Its a shame we're having to study it for a grade which will determine how we do in later life but c'est la vie. Does anyone have any interesting quotes or passages from the book they think are useful?
- From: rick webb (@ 194.74.199.55)
on: Tue Apr 30 07:32:09
we have to read this book for our gcse's and me an my mates thinck that its te bigest lumpo of crap ever written. frist it was set yaers ago about some muky tramp who no one is bothered about. also we read it so meany times it took eany intesest out of it. pluss it was shite to start with. so there u go. i would reckomend that all copys of it r burned of a large bonfire just lik hitler did with all the stuff he h8ted.
- From: kim (@ proxy1.rotherham.rmplc.co.uk)
on: Mon May 20 07:08:40
I think the book is ok but the video is better. its a bit boring and i think they should have chose something more interesting for us to do for our G.C.S.E's.
- From: Jennifer. (@ host213-122-7-49.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
on: Fri May 24 14:54:03
I didnt really enjoy this book much. I thought it was boring and it dragged on, but it does have a message and a serious point to it. i agreee with Ben-alison you should get a life!
- From: Don (@ webcacheh01a.cache.pol.co.uk)
on: Sat May 25 15:06:38
i thought this book was a big pile of poooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! i tryed 2 read it but id rather slit my wrists!
- From: Barry Hines (@ webcacheh01a.cache.pol.co.uk)
on: Sat May 25 15:10:39
excuse me but this is Barry Hines the author of "Kestrel" and i would like to say that i am both shocked and appauled by your comments over something i lovingly slaved over for three years. You kids should be ashamed of yourselves, when was the last time you used an ounce of imagination and tried to create a fictional masterpiece?
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