I canceled reading it after 50 or 60 pages. It felt dusty and predictable. I also remember the language to be kind of prophetic, like it has something important to say, while failing at doing so.

The book might have proven me wrong, if I finished it. Who knows.

interesting take. I don't remember much of the detail but I do remember it helping me to take big next steps more confidently when I read it at 16.

Had to read that for summer reading in high school. All I remember about it was how utterly forgettable it was.

It felt like one of those sappy motivational posters, but dragged out over 200 pages.

Is that the one where the boy has a bag of pebbles?

Paper factory or something?

I literally have that book at home because of how much I agree with this. A friend highly recommended it and borrowed it to me when I was ~15. I never gave it back purely to avoid having to tell them how eye roll inducingly fake deep I found it. To be fair though, I don't remember much of it either.