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| Original Title: | The Vast Fields of Ordinary |
| ISBN: | 0803733402 (ISBN13: 9780803733404) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Iowa(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Stonewall Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature (2010) |
Nick Burd
Hardcover | Pages: 309 pages Rating: 3.93 | 10427 Users | 631 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Vast Fields of Ordinary |
| Author | : | Nick Burd |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 309 pages |
| Published | : | May 14th 2009 by Dial Books (first published May 1st 2009) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. LGBT. Contemporary. Fiction. Romance. Realistic Fiction. GLBT. Queer |
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It's Dade's last summer at home. He has a crappy job at Food World, a "boyfriend" who won't publicly acknowledge his existence (maybe because Pablo also has a girlfriend), and parents on the verge of a divorce. College is Dade's shining beacon of possibility, a horizon to keep him from floating away. Then he meets the mysterious Alex Kincaid. Falling in real love finally lets Dade come out of the closet - and, ironically, ignites a ruthless passion in Pablo. But just when true happiness has set in, tragedy shatters the dreamy curtain of summer, and Dade will use every ounce of strength he's gained to break from his past and start fresh with the future.Rating Out Of Books The Vast Fields of Ordinary
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The Vast Fields of Ordinary is an appropriate title for this Being 18, and going off to college in another state in a few months, things are pretty hectic in the life of Dade. Dade's life in general is pretty complicated, and definitely not like a teenager at all. He's different, and not like the other teenagers that live around him. Life is complicated for Dade, but he doesn't have a choice but to live through all this trouble. Being bullied for his sexuality, is heartbreaking and really rude.Actual rating: 2.5 starsThe Vast Fields of Ordinary isn't really a terrible book. I just feel so emotionless after reading it. I just don't care. It was easy enough to get through. At first it was kinda boring but things picked up once Dade met his friend Lucy. Something about the writing was nice and Dade was a fairly likable character. He kinda acts dumb at times but whatever. Also, what was the tragedy mentioned on the back cover? Some random kid that he didn't even know disappeared? Kind of
Having just read a badmediocre gay novella that was more porn than anything else, I read this book in two daysbetween work and sleep and my second anniversary celebration with the most wonderful man in the worldand it completely wrecked me. For one thing, I couldn't stop reading. That hasn't happened to me for a long time, for a book I've never read. I literally did not want to stop reading it, not even to go to bed.The story is engrossing from the start, and while it is not perfect (because
First of all I want to say that often my favorite books to read are any fiction books that have queer themes. So I was hoping to be pleased no matter what, and I seem to think of myself as a forgiving person when it comes to books (in fact before this I couldn't really name any book in recent history I'd read besides Twilight that I would consider 'bad') Unfortunately, I quickly began to realize that this book is in fact, awful.Although some of that is to blame from the back cover. I know that
So good. Such a disappointing ending. I can see how thematically the ending works, but...ugh, it hurts like a broken heart.
3.5 starsI have a hard time rating this one because nothing really happens besides some mild angst on Dade's part and a brief scene at the end of the book. I also hated the ending but after I got into the story, I didn't really want to stop reading it. I loved the characters. Well most of them. Dade is funny in a sarcastic, somewhat mellow, what-do-I-do-now type of way and I liked that. Lucy, Dade's lesbian friend, brought Dade out of his shell and made him into a funny, likable person. Alex was
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