Book Reviews of Sleepers

If you liked the movie, you will like the book much better. The story is horrifying and keeps you involved. The characters are realistic. One of my favorites!

The movie version of "Sleepers" was great with an all star cast, but you will never truly understand the richness of the characters unless you read the book first.
An amazing read.

I enjoyed this book but had a hard time reading some parts of it. It is a very chilling story and I felt the boys pain through everything that they were going through.

In his controversial memoir SLEEPERS, Carcaterra remembers harrowing months in the Wilkinson Home for Boys and the elaborate vengeance he and his friends exacted against the guards. He tells it all in spare, stylish prose...with relentless momentum and sheer drama.

This is a touching true story of real life horrors four young men had to live through, and how it shaped their lives. Many sections of the book are unbelievable!!

this was a really good book. the story was compelling and fast paced. the author could easily have been way too graphic in certain parts, but wasn't at all. i look forward to renting the movie now and seeing how it stacks up.

A terrifying account of brutality and retribution, searing in its emotional truth, peopled with murderers, sadists, and thugs, but biblical in its passion and scope.....PEOPLE

"In his controversial memoir SLEEPERS, Carcaterra remembers harrowing months in the Wilkinson Home for Boys and the elaborate vengeance he and his friends exacted against the guards. He tells it all in spare, stylish prose...(with) relentless momentum and sheer drama....SLEEPERS is a thriller, to be sure, but it is equally a wistful hymn to another age" --THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

An often wrenching coming of age story. Autobiographical, funny, sad and unforgettable.

An extremely well-written book about the loss of innocence (not for the squeamish)

excellent book - much better than the movie

Spellbinding page-turner. I saw the movie and then plowed through the book.

A terrifying account of brutality and retribution, searing in its emotional truth, peopled with murderers, sadists, and thugs, but biblical in its passion and scope.

Compelling and frightening. Could not put it down.

A great read.

Great book.

A great thriller.

New York Times Bestseller. Excellent book. Was also a movie.

jumps around and is a bit confusing at times but overall a good read.

Better than the movie.

An incredible story. Everyone should read it!

Very compelling memoir of abuse and revenge.

A terrifying account of brutility and retribution searing its emotional truth. Big in passion and scope.

the book is better than the movie'

An extraordinary true tale of torment, retribution, and loyalty that's irresistibly readable... Takes a hairpin turn into horror and then changes tack once more to relate grippingly what must be one of the most outrageous confidence schemes ever perpetrated... Carcaterra has run a moral and emotional gauntlet, and the resulting book, despite its flaws, is disturbing and hard to forget

This book kept me glued to the pages for hours on end. very good read, I think.

Movie Tie-In Cover

From Publishers Weekly
Carcaterra's controversial memoir of growing up in NYC's Hell's Kitchen and as an inmate at a sadistic detention center was a PW bestseller for eight weeks.

From the back of the book- review from the Washington Post Book World:
"In his controversial memoir SLEEPERS, Carcaterra remembers harrowing months in the Wilkinson Home for Boys and the elaborate vengeance he and his friends extracted against the guards."

Carcaterra\'s controversial memoir of growing up in NYC\'s Hell\'s Kitchen and as an inmate at a sadistic detention center was a PW bestseller for eight weeks.

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