Until now he's gotten along all right, because whenever he gets into trouble, the Motorcycle Boy bails him out. Somewhere it says Rumble Fish is more sharply focused than The Outsiders. He relies on his fists instead of his brains. It seemed that it was one of those quick reads that leaves you with a "well what if....." kind of ending.

If you think this is a book just about gang fighting - you're wack. I read it in one day and it hooked me with its suspenseful plot and realistic dialogue. I like the friendship between Steve and Rusty-James, but that It's either I'm too dumb to get the metaphor in this book or it just simply sucks. I skipped the first book in the trilogy, "The Outsiders", but if I had read "The Outsiders" in 1967 when I was 20 years old I might have been closer to the events taking place and might have been abI saw the movie many years ago and really liked it. Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on. Rusty-James fights a rival from a different town named Biff Wilcox and gets slit open pretty good. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.” There are more questions than answers by the end, and the end itself is a poor attempt to replicate what The Outsiders achieved. Tourné par Coppola dans la foulée de Outsiders, et toujours d’après un roman de S.E. It's about being misunderstood and misinterpreted.

Hinton did so well with The Outsiders that I'm more than a little surprised with her attempt with this book. It seemed that it was one of those quick reads that leaves you with a "well what if....." kind of ending. The biggest and heaviest impacts are when an event or a moment grab a life that is completely and utterly ripe for something it didn’t know existed.Rumble Fish was a cool movie that looked a lot like Robert Frank’s The Americans and had Mickey Rourke perfecting his Richard Hell impersonation with Tom Waits doing a Pop’s Chocklit Shoppe routine, whilst listening to Wall Of Voodoo and The Police jamming on the soundtrack…very new wave…totally Eighties. I decided to read the book some day and finally got around to it.

Plus, I love stories about tough guys and gangs in the '50s and '60s. But after I closed the book, I didn't have a clear reaction to it that I could pinpoint and then translate into a starred rating. I'm confused. Definitely skip this and opt for The Outsiders or Not Long for this World by Anthony Haywood.Rumblefish is pretty amazing...it's all about a kid named Rusty James who is yearning for a fight. He ends up in the hospital and his life was different from there on out. I skipped the first book in the trilogy, "The Outsiders", but if I had read "The Outsiders" in 1967 when I was 20 years old I might have been closer to the events taking place and might have been able to get into it then. it took a little while to get into the swing of the book but i was well and truly hooked by the end! Hinton. FIrst off, while I was reading it, I kept asking myself, "okay, this is all background, now when's the plot going to start?" Not bad for a quick afternoon read though! On est au début des années 80 : après l’échec financier d’Apocalypse now et le crash critique et commercial de Coup de cœur, les studios Zoetrope sont au plus mal. I read it in one day and it hooked me with its suspenseful plot and realistic dialogue. And this time the Motorcycle Boy isn't around to pick up the pieces. It lacks the charm and sincerity of This book is confusingly bad. I really think this book is very good because it was like The Outsiders and that book was the one that got me engaged in reading.No self-respecting thug would go by Rusty James.

by Laurel Leaf All you know is that Motorcycle Boy dies at the end and in those few seconds afterThis book was very, very good, but there were some things about it that I didn't quite enjoy. This story is about a boy, named Rusty-James, and his brother, The Motorcycle Boy. Rusty James - la critique . I feel like it's just a bunch of random events smashed together. It left me with the questions, "How did he get there? I have to say that I didn't like the book as much as the movie which isn't typical for me.

I don't feel emotional or anything. It's either I'm too dumb to get the metaphor in this book or it just simply sucks. Synopsis : Tulsa, Oklahoma. 3 stars.This book definitely could have been better, and the synopsis didn't at all do it justice, or even accurately summarize it at all, but I think the message to learn here is so popular.

These gangs have disappeared now and he goes on his own trying to be the toughest kid in town. I thought that it was also about how you should just want to be yourself, because everyone’s life isn’t as great as it may seem.

On their way back home, they run into two guys down an alley.

Rusty-James is a fourteen year old boy who grew up in a gang. There's something about 'Rumble Fish' that makes me read it a few times every year. It's not a book to like or dislike; it left me unexplainably sad for Rusty-James (the main character).

But after I closed the book, I didn't have a clear reaction to it that I could pinpoint and then translate into a starred rating. Published