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I Know What You Did
Last Summer
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Lois Duncan
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| Championship: | I Know What You lot Did Last Summer |
| Author: | Lois Duncan |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Written: | 1973, rev. 2010 |
| Length: | 211 pages |
| Availability: | I Know What You Did Last Summer - US |
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| DVD | I Know What You Did Last Summer - US |
- Includes a Q & A with the author
- I Know What You lot Did Concluding Summer was made into a film in 1997, directed by Jim Gillespie and starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Our Cess:
B- : rather simplistic, in every respect, only some decent suspense
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The consummate review 'due south Review:
I Know What You lot Did Last Summer takes place nigh a yr after iv teenagers accidentally ran down and killed a boy. The four -- Barry, Helen, Julie, and Ray -- didn't go to the authorities (beyond a brief call to alarm them of the accident) and they made a pact not to say anything to anyone near what happened, and for nearly a year their secret seemed to be safe.
No longer: kickoff with a notation Julie gets claiming 'I know what you did final summer' it seems someone else is now in the know. The first messages are cryptic enough that the gang is concerned but non sure whether information technology isn't just some prank that they're reading too much into -- especially since there are no real threats accompanying them. But shortly enough things get more serious.
The iv friends went some divide ways afterward concluding summer: Julie buckled down and became a serious educatee (she simply got into Smith), and she bankrupt upwards with Ray, who headed due west to get abroad from it all. The cute Helen dropped out of high school and has begun her Tv set career; she's withal seeing Barry, simply the relationship has gotten a bit rocky. At present Ray is back in town -- and they can all experience the noose tightening.
Duncan paints in rather unproblematic blacks and whites, with express depth to her characters -- though their different trajectories (plus that of, for example, Helen'south far less successful older sis) are interesting enough that this doesn't matter too much. Occasionally, the shallowness of the characters is problematic, especially when Barry repeatedly lies (and gets jealous, for little reason and without request for an caption); a bit more communication among the four and things likely wouldn't have turned out nearly then badly. Julie'southward mother's premonitions of really bad things happening is also a painfully artificial way of creating suspense: a character who 'feels' bad things are in the air to signal bad things is a very weak fallback.
The clues, about what might be happening, are okay, and the concluding explanation and twist is fine, making for a reasonably suspenseful guilt-ridden thriller, but the writing (and some of the plotting) is very, very basic.
I Know What You Did Concluding Summer was fabricated into a very successful but much more graphic movie; a Q & A with Duncan included in the new edition has her describe her shock near what they transformed her piece of work into. Some changes were necessary -- indeed, the fundamental twist in the book couldn't (readily) be replicated on screen -- just readers should exist aware that the film is quite fundamentally dissimilar.
Note also that the new edition is a revised one: information technology has been 'updated' to include applied science non bachelor back in the original 24-hour interval (1978) (GPS, cell phones, texting, email) too modernized in a few other means (one of the character fought in Republic of iraq, for instance, and some of the wearing apparel have been brought up to date, etc.). It probably would have been fine to leave things be; information technology doesn't sound much more than contemporary -- but then the key and important parts of the novel, the guilt amd the threat that gradually takes shape, are fairly timeless.
- Yard.A.Orthofer, 10 Nov 2011
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Links:
I Know What Y'all Did Last Summertime :- Little, Brown (Us) publicity page
- Lilliputian, Dark-brown (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland) publicity page
- Lois Duncan Thrillers Get an Update past Sally Gild in Publishers Weekly
- Book Chick City
- The Bookbag
- BookLoons
- Building Rainbows
- The Overflowing Library
- Wondrous Reads
- IMDb folio
- Official site
- Killing Mr. Griffin
- See Alphabetize of Children's and Young Developed fiction
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Nearly the Author:
American author Lois Duncan lived 1934 to 2016.
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