Read The Outsiders for the first time since the eighth grade.

For a novel with a pretty simple writing style, it’s got some pretty good introspection going for the main character. Had I more shelf space, I’d probably hang onto my copy. Unfortunately …

Read through this in two days.

It’s got a better story than the film adaptation. Not that’s its stellar writing or anything, but

POTENTIAL SPOILERS!!!

an unhinged Vietnam vet seeking revenge for the manslaughter of his little half-brother is better than a crazed fisherman slaughtering people with a hook just because Jennifer Love Hewitt bruised his ass.

Suffice it to say, its an okay time-killer of a book, but it’s nothing worth hanging onto or reading again.