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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
I started reading Will Grayson, Will Grayson, reced by faust I think. I'm very amused by it so far and like it a lot.
The thing that amuses me the most is that I can totally relate to one of the Will Graysons and the other cracks me up. He is so unimpressed with the world and has no qualms saying it.
That one reminds me of Sonny, like seriously you guys XD It's hilarious. Especially since of course Sonny and I have only ever known each other online so our conversations are always digital, and that Will Grayson's pov is basically written like someone writing on the computer...
This excerpted conversation in particular seemed straight out of stories Sonny has told me about his day:
(This girl comes up to Will when he's shelving Metamucil at work and asks if he's gay)
---NOTE: Will's POV so me = him---
me: what the fuck?
her: it would be okay with me if you were
me: oh good because the thing i'd be worried about the most is whether you were okay with it
her: i'm just saying
me: noted. now will you just shut up and let me work, okay? or do you want me to use my employee discount to get you something for your cramps?
((story cut out))
me: there should be a cereal for constipated people called metamueslix
her: i'm serious
me: and i'm seriously telling you to fuck off. you shouldn't call me gay just because i don't want to sleep with you. a lot of straight guys don't want to sleep with you, either
her: fuck you
me: ah, but the point is, you won't
---
I bet if I could go back in chat logs, Sonny would have relayed a story to me sometime that was a hell of a lot like that XD
Also I can relate to the other Will Grayson's habits/personality. The way he has random thoughts is pretty much like me so it made me laugh, such as:
I make my way up close to the stage without Tiny and without Gary and without Possibly Gay Jane. It's just me and the stage, which is only raised up about two feet in this joint, so if the lead singer of Neutral Milk Hotel is particularly short-- like if he is three feet ten inches tall-- I will be looking him straight in the eye.
And then this quote also amused me:
I realize this is not, like, boyish. I realize that properly speaking guys should only think about sex and acquisition of it, and that they should run crotch-first toward every girl who likes them and etc.
Switch that to 'girlish' and that's the way I always felt too... well not the running crotch-first part. That's just hilarious XD But the greater context of this quote being about the idea of not fitting in with the norm during high school-- that fit then and fits now too.
I mean even the fact that he doesn't drink... that is me too. I like that there's a character in a book I can relate to in many ways who isn't super lamesauce. It makes me feel less lamesauce myself.
I have to stop quoting this damn book because it's making me SUCH a slow reader.
The thing that amuses me the most is that I can totally relate to one of the Will Graysons and the other cracks me up. He is so unimpressed with the world and has no qualms saying it.
That one reminds me of Sonny, like seriously you guys XD It's hilarious. Especially since of course Sonny and I have only ever known each other online so our conversations are always digital, and that Will Grayson's pov is basically written like someone writing on the computer...
This excerpted conversation in particular seemed straight out of stories Sonny has told me about his day:
(This girl comes up to Will when he's shelving Metamucil at work and asks if he's gay)
---NOTE: Will's POV so me = him---
me: what the fuck?
her: it would be okay with me if you were
me: oh good because the thing i'd be worried about the most is whether you were okay with it
her: i'm just saying
me: noted. now will you just shut up and let me work, okay? or do you want me to use my employee discount to get you something for your cramps?
((story cut out))
me: there should be a cereal for constipated people called metamueslix
her: i'm serious
me: and i'm seriously telling you to fuck off. you shouldn't call me gay just because i don't want to sleep with you. a lot of straight guys don't want to sleep with you, either
her: fuck you
me: ah, but the point is, you won't
---
I bet if I could go back in chat logs, Sonny would have relayed a story to me sometime that was a hell of a lot like that XD
Also I can relate to the other Will Grayson's habits/personality. The way he has random thoughts is pretty much like me so it made me laugh, such as:
I make my way up close to the stage without Tiny and without Gary and without Possibly Gay Jane. It's just me and the stage, which is only raised up about two feet in this joint, so if the lead singer of Neutral Milk Hotel is particularly short-- like if he is three feet ten inches tall-- I will be looking him straight in the eye.
And then this quote also amused me:
I realize this is not, like, boyish. I realize that properly speaking guys should only think about sex and acquisition of it, and that they should run crotch-first toward every girl who likes them and etc.
Switch that to 'girlish' and that's the way I always felt too... well not the running crotch-first part. That's just hilarious XD But the greater context of this quote being about the idea of not fitting in with the norm during high school-- that fit then and fits now too.
I mean even the fact that he doesn't drink... that is me too. I like that there's a character in a book I can relate to in many ways who isn't super lamesauce. It makes me feel less lamesauce myself.
I have to stop quoting this damn book because it's making me SUCH a slow reader.
