Book Review: The Outsiders

(Downloaded on my Kindle for $7): SE Hinton's best-selling novel of Oklahoma JDs gets under your skin. I decided to read it after seeing the musical version now on Broadway, plus it's on PBS's list of 100 favorite books. At less than 200 pages, I figured it would be a quick, easy read. It was and very deep. The narrator Ponyboy Curtis hangs out with a makeshift family/gang known as Greasers in 1967 Tulsa, Oklahoma. They are preyed upon by the upper-middle-class Socs (for Socials). Ponyboy likes to read and draw and gets good grades in school, but his world is beset by senseless violence. A lot of bad stuff goes down, but the plot is not as important as Ponyboy's reflections on his dead-end life. Hinton gets inside the characters. You feel know you them by the end of the book.