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Plot Summary of In a Class By Itself
"A woman reunited with her first and only love at her tenth high school reunion is the basis of this story. When her parents had their marriage annulled during their last year in high school, she eventually went along with them and moved on with her life, moving out of town. He never moved on. Now he is a self-made success, not the poor boy her parents once disapproved of. I had a really hard time identifying with either of these characters. His whole life he has been driven by this obsession with her, even though she was willing to let her parents dictate her life to her and leave the man (or boy) she supposedly loved. I found myself feeling sorry for him or getting the creeps most of the time. Her subsequent marriage and child figure in the story, but to tell more would take away from the story."
Kim Mills, Resident Scholar


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Review Analysis of In a Class By Itself
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Plot
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Forbidden/mismatched love? Yes
How mismatched? - poor loving rich
Marriage/Married Yes
Searching/Rekindling love? Yes
Lost Lover: - rekindling love after long time
If one lover chases another... - he chases after her
Children/Pregnancy Yes
Matchbreaker Yes
Matchbreaker is - Dad

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - small businessman
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Eccentric/mental: Yes
Eccentric: - obsessed - emotionally unstable
How sexual is this person? - several sexual encounters
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
Sex makes him - confused - wild
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - confident - less bitchy/arrogant - blissful
Sex has bad effect on him Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - wealthy
How sexual is this person? - a few sexual encounters
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
effect of sexing - confused
Sex has bad effect on her Yes
Sex has good effect on her Yes
Effect of sexing - less bitchy/arrogant - blissful
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Texas
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
What % of story is romance related? - 90%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of sex - descript. of female anatomy (the big B's) - descript. of female anatomy (the big V) - descript. of male nudity (the big P)
Focus of story - equally on him and her
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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