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Grasshopper Jungle

Andrew Smith

Start date: December 17, 2014

Finish date: January 15, 2015

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Jan 19, 2014 Joanna rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy-sci-fi, 2014-read, coming-of-age, young-adult, first-reads, dystopia, rws-2014-winter

Andrew Smith is my new hero. Seriously, this book was fantastic. It managed to talk more openly and honestly about male teen sexuality than anything I've read recently. In that respect, it reminded me of Judy Blume and other such historical greats. But this is more edgy than that.

As well as telling a brilliant coming of age story, the book also manages to tell a convincing and gripping, but also humorous, end of civilization dystopia. The book doesn't shy away from giving a specific account of w ...more

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Jan 20, 2015 Agatha Donkar Lund rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, young-adult, dystopia, 2015, book-club-fya

I ended up liking this a lot more than I expected to, which was a nice surprise.

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Feb 19, 2014 Adrienne rated it liked it

Clever and entertaining quick read. Dystopia with a teenage boys mind.

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Sep 16, 2013 Brandi rated it it was amazing

Shelves: teen, favorites, random-reads-column, audiobooks, printz-winner-nominee, coming-of-age, 2014, science-fiction, series, lgbtq

I can't say much about this book because my words never seem to do it justice. Just read this book so then we can talk about it, yeah?

Super brief synopsis: Two teen boys inadvertently kick start the end of the world featuring 6 foot tall unstoppable praying mantises that only want to mate and eat. ...more

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Jan 04, 2014 keri. rated it liked it

Shelves: insanebutawesome, youngadult, fiction, sciencefictions, queer, dystopia, creepy, gross, bookclub, ebook

THIS BOOK IS B A N A N A S. also without threesomes, which was enraging but logical, bc stupid teens, huge bugs and the end of the world.

also, DAMN, so much semen, tho mostly present in a way I wouldn't've imagined. ...more

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