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Book ReviewsBenjamin Kritzer |
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Book: Benjamin Kritzer
Written by: Bruce Kimmel |
Publisher: Authorhouse
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Benjamin Kritzer
Rating:
5 / 5
To read Benjamin Kritzer is to make a new friend, both with the loveable title character as well as with the author who shares so warmly with us the endearing tales of his childhood (loosely disguised as fiction).
How fun to read of first loves, classic movies and quirky families told from the odd and imaginative point of view of a nine-year old Benjamin. Rooted in the always intriguing backdrop of 1950's Los Angeles, His tales brought me back to the simpler time I've often heard about and helped me to look at La La land with a new reverence for it's history and for that of all the people, BK especially, whose personal histories are rooted in this town...and it's movie theatres, of course.
The Good Old Days
Rating:
5 / 5
Remember the days before "playdates", "organized sports" for toddlers, "Gymborees" and Movie Rating systems? Those idyllic days of childhood spent roaming about on your own, dreaming, playing, and growing up?
If you do, this will warm the cockles of your heart as you relive those more innocent days when children were allowed to be children and every second of their days was not micromanaged by PC adults.
However, if you were born after 1975, this book will give you an interesting insight to your parents childhoods, and make you jealously wish that you could have been born thiry years earlier!
Benjamin Kritzer,a bright, sensitive boy growing up in 1950's Los Angeles is convinced he is unique. He's right - and he's wrong. I grew up a decade later on the opposite coast and felt as if Bruce Kimmel were writing about my childhood!
Mr. Kimmel paints the landscape so vividly, and peoples this world with beautifully drawn characters. You'll laugh, you'll cry and you won't want it to end.
Benjamin Kritzer is a book that you will want to read again and again (after, of course, you read the two sequels!)
Benjamin Kritzer
Rating:
5 / 5
One of the best books I've read, "Benjamin Kritzer" captures perfectly the innocence of youth, the joy of first love, and the strangeness of little Jewish boys from Los Angeles. A sweet, endearing novel, anyone can relate to "Benjaming Kritzer". I'm a fifteen year old Long Island girl, and my English teacher (who, like Benjamin Kritzer, grew up in LA in the 1950s) and I bonded over how we both feel as though we are/were Benjamin Kritzers. Read this book! Its youthful exuberance is utterly timeless.
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