A Thinking Man's Bully : Unstuck in Time, Unburdened by Convention, and Liberated from Fact (Hardcover)

from bakersfieldbarbara

This was the most difficult book for me to review because our area has lost two teenagers to suicide as a result of bullying. I read and reread this book, hoping to find something positive to say about it. It is well written and the author uses the first person as a way to write the novel, but I ...

from katiekrug

I found this debut novel to be eminently readable, despite not liking a single character in it. In a series of vignettes, we learn about one man's past history of bullying and that of his son. The format is not very smooth and feels rather disconnected; the main characters are pretty obnoxious, a...

from burnit99

Matt Duffy has a high school son, Jack, who is a bully (like Matt was in high school himself) and has recently attempted suicide. His wife has convinced him to see a psychologist, who gets him to examine his own role in his son's troubled life, and his own, by writing stories. The therapy proceed...

from Boobalack

This is a book about a bully - or several bullies. I get the feeling that it is autobiographical, as the blurb about the author states that he is "a (mostly) reformed high school troublemaker and the father of three boys." The main character, Matt "McDuff" Duffy only has one son, but that matters...

from Jaie22

When I read the first few pages of this book, my reaction was "This is good, and it's about to get better. I think that in about five more pages it's going to become something I just can't put down." Two hundred pages later, I still thought "this is about to get better." The author's style is goo...