Book Reviews of The Dive From Clausen's Pier (Alex Awards (Awards))

Loved this--different kind of love story. Do we honor our heart or obligation?

This book is something unexpected to read. When I got it as a gift, I really didn't think it would be worth my time, but I was wrong. I think you'd enjoy it if you gave it a chance. It held my interest and I read through it very quickly.

Carrie and Mike have been a couple since high school and just as Carrie is having second thoughts about thier relationship, Mike has a diving accident and is paralyzed from the neck down. This book chronicles Carrie's thought and feeling process through the whole ordeal. This is a pretty good story, I would give it 4 stars because of the way it involves the reader in the characters ambivalence without making snap judgements and its recogntion and appreciation of human foibles and difficulties.

I read this when it first came out in 2002. The book is all right. I just disliked the main character. She was weak. This is a story about a guy and a girl. The girl is thinking of breaking up with the guy. They are out with their friends swimming in a creek and the boy breaks his neck diving from the pier. The rest of the story is about how she dealt with their relationship and her life after the accident.

Carrie feels like she is suffocating and decides to breakup with her high school sweetheart and start over. Before she can do it, he breaks his neck in a diving accident. Will Carrie give up her dreams to take care of Mike or will she go on with her plans for the future?

Loved this book. Read it in 2 days (it's just shy of 400 pages). Very moving yet self-contained & quiet, in a way. One of the more honest books I've read in a long time. Admirable in that she doesn't try to pretty up an impossible & ugly situation. Highly recommended.

I loved this book so much that I even wrote a sociology paper on it in college. A great thought provoking story!

This book kept me turing the pages until the very end.

I loved this book. Could not put it down. Definitely makes you think and put relationships in a different perspective.

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Carrie feels like she is suffocating and decides to breakup with her high school sweetheart and start over. Before she can do it, he breaks his neck in a diving accident. Will Carrie give up her dreams to take care of Mike or will she go on with her plans for the future?

GREAT BOOK

i love this book -- i almost can't bring myself to get rid of it. my inept summary: Carrie is already thinking of breaking up with her high school sweetheart (soon after college graduation) when there is an accident and he is seriously injured -- now what?

very interesting, thought provoking

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