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Title: No More Saturday Nights
ISBN: 0449703045
Author:
Norma Klein
Publicate Date: 1989-08-29
Publish: 1989-08-29
List Price: $4.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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1: How I wish Norma Klein were still around...
Joel is a high school senior with a scholarship to Columbia. Cheryl, a girl he'd been sleeping with (but not necessarily dating), ends up pregnant and decides to give the baby up for adoption (but actually, she's selling it, what a nice girl). Joel steps in and decides he wants to raise the baby by himself while still going to college.
Not bad. It paints a fairly decent picture of what having a newborn/young baby around is like. Maybe it would've been different if I read this as a teen, but the mom in me kept cringing every time he thought something awful about the baby. I think she could've gone into more description about how hard it was for Joel alone in NYC with an infant, but overall I'd give her an A-. This book should probably be required reading for every teenaged boy who's out there doing things with consequences he probably can't handle, or wouldn't want to handle. (I say for boys, because most other teen pregnancy books are from the girl's point of view, and they can go read those. )
I preferred other Klein books over this (and why are the fathers in her stories all the same? You could take one out of one book, plop him down right in the middle of another, and the plot would go on like nothing happened), such as Beginner's Love, but overall, this was okay.
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2: Loved this Book
Normally, when we read a book about a teen raising a baby, it's the mothers who are usually the main characters and the fathers who want nothing to do with it. However in this book, Klein takes on a subject rarely talked about in the media and reverses roles:it's the father who wants to raise his child and the mother who wants out of it. And Tim does just that when he learns that his ex-girlfriend is pregnant and wants to put the baby up for adoption. He takes her to court and wins custody of his baby. What gets me mad is how everyone sees his decision as selfish and unfair to the mother. Few people are proud of Tim for owning up to being the father and taking responsibility and when he tells people about deciding to raise his son, they all ask the same question:"Why?" However, some good things come out of this. Tim grows to love his son Mason a little more each day and his relationship with his own father becomes stronger than it used to be as the elder actually starts to enjoy his role as Mason's grandfather. All this serves to strengthen the bond between Tim and Mason, until towards the end of this book, when that bond is put to the ultimate test. This book had me from begining to end, especially when I wanted to see how Tim would manage to balance college and fatherhood.
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3: *No More Saturday Nights*
This book was very inspiritng to me. It tought me to wait until i was ready before i started a family. It also showed me that hard work, and a loving family will always be here to help you through any thing, that tries to block your road. I would defiently recommend this book to other people, either young or old at age. It tells alot about the struggle of life, and how to overcome your fears
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4: A book that deals with close-minded people........
I read this book for the first time when i was 14yrs old, 11yrs and two children later i found it at a goodwill and decided to read it again. I found more to complain about now that i am older. First, people were really cruel to him and more understanding of her for wanting to sell her baby for money. I don't see how the fact that cheryl needed the money had any bearing on him wanting to raise his child and not give it up for adoption. I don't understand why a father wanting to raise his child would be considered selfish. Second, Vivian had issues of her own. She called him cruel for taking the baby from it's mother when in fact the mother was going to give him up for adoption so she wouldn't have him anyway. Third, Cheryl was nothing but a golddigger with a plan that went wrong. I just think that everyone Tim surrounded himself with was close-minded. I can only hope that Norma klein has become more informed on single fatherhood since she wrote this book. With teen fathers not always taking responsibility for their actions, I think Tim should have been more understood and cheryl more looked down upon.
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5: My Favorite Book in the Whole Wide World!!!!!!
This book was sooooo good. In fact it was so good I can't even believe that I read it. Anyone that has not read this book yet has not lived life the way it was meant to be. The scenes are shocking and mocking, without a lot of talking!!!!! You are not considered cool inless you've read this.
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