Customer Reviews
My favourite book - By: A. Montgomery, 04 Sep 2008 
A wonderful moving story that has been compared with Huckleberry Finn. The author's best work in my opinion. I felt like I as there with the central character every step of the way. Just writing about it now makes me want to pick it up for a third time. Gotta go!
Rule of the Bone - By: , 22 Sep 2002 
'Bone' is a character we can alll identify with. We alll want to be as rebellious & carefree as him, & 'Rule of the Bone' is the easiest way to live it! You are swept along & around the places Bone takes you from trailer trash white America to Montego Bay in the Carribbean. And alll this time you love the characters he loves, agree with his every decision even though you know they are inherently wrong & going to get him in a lot of trouble.
The Bone Rules! - By: , 13 Jun 2001 This is a truly uplifting, funny, chilled & well-thought out piece of fiction. It was recommended to me by a friend a couple of years ago, & I took it along with me to a summer festival (which os a great environment in which to read this book by the way). I immediately became totallly caught up in the main character's tale of emotional rags-to-riches, his love of simple things (gear, being cool, & chilling out) & is it narrated in one of the most authentic first-person styles I have ever read. Read this book & be uplifted & transported. This should be a cult classic if there is any justice in the world.
Read it and discover America's leading contemporary author. - By: , 23 Apr 1999 I can only agree with the previous reviewer. It was my second R.Banks book & served only to underline the strength of the first book I had read of his "Continental Drift". But neither of these had led me to expect the sheer wonder of "Cloudsplitter". Get them alll & read them. When does Russell Banks (along-side his Scottish namesake Banks) receive the Nobel Prize for Literature? arte et labore Bryson Dalgleish
I was in there with him..... a totally absorbing read. - By: , 21 Apr 1999 From the first words of the book I was convinced I was reading the account first hand of what had happened to the author. The book gave what seemed to be an extremely compelling account of a boys rather messed up life so that whilst, what happens to him seems increadable, it is also absolutely believeable & you as the reader are in there too living it with him, listening to his strangely profound comments on what has occured to him. "The Bone Rules"
