I was really
hesitant to read this book. Fault in Our Stars by John Green
really, really, really traumatized me.
Don’t get me
wrong, I loved that book, it was beautifully written but man, did it leave a
scar on my heart. I just wasn’t ready
for another book about a dying teenager, and clearly there is going to be a dead
girl somewhere in this book, it’s in the freaking the title. But I read many, many reviews that assured that
this was not a sad, depressing book – so I jumped in…
And it’s
not, well a little, but not in the emotionally scarring kinda way. Here’s the thing, this book is funny, I mean
really funny. The narrator, in my mind,
is Jonah Hill in Superbad (with the vocabulary to match.) If bad language is a deal breaker…don’t read
this book. He is self-effacing and quirky
and full of self loathing…and I love him…and here’s why:
“Jesus Christ in a cockwagon. At the beginning of this sentence, my Feeling
like a Dick Quotient was at a solid 4.0, which is normal. By about the word “excuse,” it was all the way
up to a 9.4. By the end I was easily
maxed out at a 10.0. Actually, I may
have broken the scale.” Greg Gaines
Book Description via Amazon.com
Publication Date: March 1,
2012
Up until senior year, Greg has maintained total social
invisibility. He only has one friend, Earl, and together they spend their
time—when not playing video games and avoiding Earl’s terrifying brothers—
making movies, their own versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Greg
would be the first one to tell you his movies are f*@$ing terrible, but he and
Earl don’t make them for other people. Until Rachel.
Rachel has leukemia, and Greg’s mom gets the genius idea that Greg
should befriend her. Against his better judgment and despite his extreme
awkwardness, he does. When Rachel decides to stop treatment, Greg and Earl make
her a movie, and Greg must abandon invisibility and make a stand. It’s a
hilarious, outrageous, and truthful look at death and high school by a
prodigiously talented debut author.
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