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What did you think of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian? Did you find the story fun to read and would you recommend it?

I love this book!

I have recommended it to everyone. I literally laughed out loud at some of the passages in here.

I love how completely honest and frank that Junior is about his life and about the struggles that he went through. Alexie has done an amazing job of creating a character that seems very real.

Alexie came to the high school where I teach a few years back when this novel was first published, and he told our students about his childhood. It is very clear after reading this that Junior is Alexie! With all of those experiences, no wonder he's such an amazing writer!

I did like the book. The style was very easy to understand but at the same time it was poetic and had a certain rhythm to it, which I really liked. Some books are so metaphorical that it's hard to understand anything about it. It was a fun read too. The subject interested me, since I've always been interested in stories about stereotypes and more serious subjects. The way the author put things was funny and sarcastic at times, but it ultimately has a very hopeful message.

Sherman Alexie is very blunt in his writing, so it's never hard to understand exactly what he is saying or what is going on. The subject matter can be controversial at times, so I don't know that I would recommend it to absolutely everyone. But I would definitely recommend it to teenagers and anyone older than that.

Overall it was a very good book. I heard good things about it before, and it lived up to my expectations.

This was one of my favorite books that I have read in school. The language wasn't completely cryptic for once which was nice change. Although the writing was not that complicated I found that within his writing Alexie wove a lot of metaphors and chose his words very specifically to convey a certain point. I really enjoyed this style of writing.

I would defiantly recommend this book. It was a book that kept me entertained all the way through while also teaching me. Overall it was really great story that was very real and did not hide the truth which was very refreshing.