The book a Separate Peace was by far the most boring book I have ever read. It has no action what so ever and is very bland. First of all, the book goes too much into detail when on a subject. For example, Gene thinks that Phineas is trying to make him fail by trying to get him not to study and Gene is thinking about it in his head trying to come to a conclusion and it just goes on and on. Second of all, there is no action. The only thing that is written in this book are conversations between Gene and another person and sometimes what Gene is thinking in his head. The book is taking place during WWII too. The author could have at least written something at Leper's point of view when he went to the war. All it did was talk about how in the paper there were stories of Leper.