Customer Reviews
Strong short story collection - By: , 07 Apr 1999 
As usual, Rob Thomas is dead-on with the voice of his YA characters. The stories are funny & focused around a common theme that is familiar to most high school students. My only complaint is that the book feels unfinished since Thomas doesn't use the end of the book to return to the character of Randall, the college freshman he usesin the beginning of the collection to frame the stories.
A great book! - By: , 20 Jan 1999 
I enjoyed this book immensely. I think that Thomas is fantastic at using perspective as a key, without making anything too unclear. I'd like to start an e-mail kids book club, so spread the news & e-mail me (Lucy) at the above adress, with your thoughts about this book.
Doing Time is a great book about secrets, community service - By: , 07 Dec 1998 I highly recommend Doing Time because it has an insight into the lives of people the characters only thought they knew. The book is divided into several short segments dealing with students who need to complete community service for high school or who have other similar situations, but they all find out a dark secret about another characterin each story. Young people will probably enjoy this because of its contemporary feel.
Doing Time's 10 stories full of voice and insight. - By: , 08 Nov 1997 Doing Time: Notes from the Undergrad, Rob Thomas' lastest work of fiction for young adults captures the experiences of high school students engagedin community service projects they are required to complete for graduation. These stories will appeal to teenagers & to adults alike; the characters' voices are sincere & engaging, & the stories are intriguing, insightful, & most importantly, entertaining. I like how the author avoiding resorting to moralization & preachiness & focused on how individual teenagers might reactin each of the situations...many of their decisions were surprising, & the stories endedin ways that really made me think.
Neither adults nor students should be put off by the fact that these are short stories...they are among the best pieces of young adult fiction I've read, & I think other readers will agree as they finish each one, they wish it would go on. The characters are that real, & the stories that engaging.
