Crank
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This is a tale about a monster. Not a dragon or mythological beast, but a very real, very destructive monster–crystal meth–that takes hold of 17-year-ancient Kristina Snow and transforms her into her reckless alter-ego Bree. Based on her own daughter’s addiction to crystal meth, Ellen Hopkins’ novel-in-verse is a plain, transfixing look into teenage drug use. Told in Kristina’s voice, it provides a realistic portrayal of the tortured logic of an addict.Amazon.com Review
Ellen Hopkins’s semi-autobiographical verse novel, Crank, reads like a Go Question Alice for the 21st century. In it, she chronicles the turbulent and regularly disturbing relationship between Kristina, a character based on her own daughter, and the “monster,” the highly addictive drug crystal meth, or “crank.” Kristina is introduced to the drug while visiting her largely absent and ne’er-do-well father. While under the influence of the monster, Kristina discovers her sexy alter-ego, Bree: “there is no perfect daughter, / no gifted high school junior, / no Kristina Georgia Snow. / There is only Bree.” Bree will do all the things excellent girl Kristina won’t, including attracting the attention of treacherous boys who can provide her with a steady flow of crank. Soon, her grades plummet, her relationships with family tree and friends deteriorate, and she needs more and more of the monster just to get through the day. Kristina hits her lowest point when she is raped by one of her drug dealers and becomes pregnant as a result. Her choice to keep the baby slows her drug use, but doesn’t stop it, and the leader leaves the reader with the distinct impression that Kristina/Bree may never be free from her addiction. In the leader’s note, Hopkins warns “nothing in this tale is impossible,” but when Kristina’s controlled, high-powered mother allows her teenage daughter to visit her biological father (a nearly homeless known drug user), the tale feels unbelievable. Still, the descriptions of crystal meth use and its consequences are powerful, and will horrify and transfix older teenage readers, just as Alice did over 20 years ago. –Jennifer Hubert
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Who wants to read a book in verse? How annoying….too much work, very disappointed.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
A excellent tale, but a terrible read. Page structuring is absolutely attrocious with each page written in a differently shaped stanza, as if the leader thought this would make for more appealing reading, but my guess isattempting to described the manic and angst that is the feel of the tale in the paragraph structure. the result though, is a hard to read, hard to follow book that, if it had normal paragraph structuring, would probably only amount to 75 pages or so.
Save the stanzas for a poem. This could have been a really excellent book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The beginning of the book was written more like poetry rather than telling an actual tale. The sentences were broken up and scattered all over the pages, very inconsistant. It’s a small discouraging when you first start to read it and a bit confusing. Towards the middle it started telling more a tale rather than poems about how the “leader” felt which helped you get into the book more. Towards the end I just wanted to hasten up and end it just to find out the ending lacking skipping to the end. The tale line is excellent but poorly written, right or not.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This book was ok. It was appealing but not the best book I’ve ever read by any means. It does send a excellent message and give a better understanding of addiction to these types of drugs.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
When your upset what do you do do? Do you weep? Do you curl up in a ball and talk to know one? Brent Runyon a 14 year ancient boy from Falls Church Virginia was very troubled and upset about his situation. He does not do very well in school and he is depressed alot. His best friend, Steven starts going out with the girl he likes and the day earlier he set a gym locker on fire with a match. When he gets off the bus he rushes towards his house, drops his books, and goes straight towards his room. He pours gasoline all over his robe, drapes it over his shoulders and lights the match. In a state of shock he drops to his knees. He is sent to a hospital and is immediately place into surgery. Brent spends four months in a hospital.
Throughout most of this book it is about Brent and him dealing with burn care. This book was a very simple read. It contained a lot of curse words but it helped the tale flow and gave a real insight into Brent’s thoughts and feelings. I would recommend this book to teenagers and adults. To find out what happens to Brent after all of his surgeries you must read the rest of this exciting book which I loved so much.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5