Jacey's review
King Dork
by Frank Portman
Jacey's review
King Dork by Frank Portman
Jacey's review
rating:
bookshelves:
fiction,
iamapreteenboy
recommended for: actual teenagers
Man, I really wanted to like this book, it came highly recommended. However, the more I tried, the more I failed. Or maybe the author (sorry MrTX) failed. It strikes me that he had these really(?) great ideas but when it came to actually working them out on paper, they just didn't work. Or perhaps it's that his really great ideas didn't actually poke above the grass of teenage tedium until the final chapter or two, when you finally get the a-ha moment. It was abrupt and startling and I felt a little assaulted with so much plot so late in a book that had been lacking it up until then. You did get a pay-off (kind of) if you stuck it out, but sticking it out was hard for me. His portrayal of the highschool mentality was right-on, which may have been a problem, unfortunately -- having lived through it once (minus the constant blowjobs), I'd rather it be within a more sophisticated framework (plot, character, tone) when i read about it (and remember, I'm all about reading YA boo...more
