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Title: I Am the Cheese by ROBERT CORMIER ISBN: 0-440-94060-5 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.77 (240 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The cheese stands alone.
Comment: Fourteen year-old Adam Farmer suspects something isn't right. As he begins to search for answers to many clues, he finds that he is not who his parents told him he was nor are his parents who he thought they were. As Adam rides his bike to visit his father, his story unfolds. Simultaneously, a therapist is trying to help Adam uncover the secrets.
Who can Adam trust? What is real? The clues are in the reading. Is it government espionage and secret identities? Is it subterfuge and witness protection or is it mental illness and a lapse from reality?
Robert Cormier is a true master of suspense. To weave a story this complex, this complicated and this intriguing in a young adult format is truly a work of genius. This book requires close attention to detail or one could easily get confused and lose the meaning of the story as well as the impact of the ending.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mysteriously complicated
Comment: I thought I am the cheese by Robert Cormier was a brilliant book because it had so much mystery and I didn't want to put the book down. It is extremely complicated when the scenes change for example the scene where the psychiatrist is asking Adam Farmer(?)questions and it changed to Adam Farmers Journey. Teenagers of the age of sixteen should read this book, because I (a fifteen year old) had to read the book twice before I could understand it!
I liked the suspense and mystery about the book. This book would appeal to people who love reading and take things seriously. The ending didn't come to me at all. I only knew what was going on until someone had explained it to me. The title of the book also confused me completely as it wasn't mentioned throughout the whole book. As you read on the more serious and complicated the book gets. Every page had more and more suspense. I didn't understand who was trying to kill who and why where they running away. After someone had explained the book to me I thought it was the most brilliant idea.
I liked the idea of swopping scenes however I think the swopping of scenes should be more clear and self explanatory.
This book shouldn't be read by our age group (fifteen year olds), because it is way too complicated and confusing. I found that the book was very interestind and I wanted to read more to find out more about what was going on. Other than that it was an amazing and brilliant book. :-)
Rating: 4
Summary: I Am The Cheese
Comment: I Am The Cheese is the story of an emotionally disturbed teenaged boy ( Adam Farmer ) who is trying to understand his mysterious past, as well as uncovering it at the same time. His memory gradually unfolds as the book progresses. I have never read a book as intriguing as this one; especially the way that Robert Cormier weaves in real-life, teenage situations into a captivating mystery.
We are with Adam as he rides his bike from Monument, Massachusetts to a hospital in Vermont where his father is. Intertwined with the everchanging emotional trip, we read excerpts from a taped interview between Adam and an ambiguous interviewer. These tape conversations are conducted in a curious manner, with he doctor-like character searching for something in his interrogations, and the mystery person constantly being agonized by headaches and weariness. Through these tapes, we find the horror that has existed for Adam and we learn of his eventual fate. Moreover, it becomes manifested that Adam's memories are full of gaps and that a doctor is trying to help him regain all of his memories. Thoughts and events deriving from the bike ride link with Adam's memories in the hospital, help to trigger off flashbacks through which the past is filled in.
The story jumps back and forth from three different narratives of Adam's journey, which can be confusing at times but is mainly a creative way of reading a book. You get to look through both a narrator's and Adam's eyes as he tries to run from a past that will always be after him.At one point near the end of the book, the two worlds of Adam's bicycle travel and mysterious conversations come together and clash violently. The sad secret of Adam Farmer's life is revealed, and the mysterious doctor's identity and intentions are unveiled. Adam encounters many different people who both help and destroy his chances of reaching his final destination. Many questions are left unanswered until the very end of the book which is something that I liked from this novel because usually, novels end with the main character where he or she belongs; and everything is happy and animated. This ending breaks the mode for stories everywhere and leaves you feeling empty and alone along with Adam, which is the whole idea of the story.
Robert Cormier created such amazing characters for this book, people who readers can really relate to, especially young adults. Moving on, Robert Cormier strays away from describing the characters physically in this book, but more emotionally and mentally. Paying attention is vital when reading this story because of the clues that are given off very subtly and quietly.
I Am the Cheese is a shocking story of lies, and concealed identities. This novel is bleak, cynical and depressing. A thrill is waiting around every corner for the adventurer who dares to read this book. It teaches you to question reality. Furthermore, this novel is a really absorbing book filled with suspense and drama. I would recommend this book to
anyone who loves a well written story with an intense plot and storyline. While the story is sometimes confusing, the subplots all come together cleverly and believably in the end.
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Title: The Chocolate War by ROBERT CORMIER ISBN: 0440944597 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 August, 1986 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Beyond the Chocolate War by ROBERT CORMIER ISBN: 044090580X Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 August, 1986 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Pigman by PAUL ZINDEL ISBN: 0553263218 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1983 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Rumble Fish by S.E. HINTON ISBN: 0440975344 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: After the First Death by ROBERT CORMIER ISBN: 0440208351 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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