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Greg Gaines is an aspiring filmmaker with little to no interest in other areas of life. He neither has nor wants any friends. He wishes to merely exist in his family. He is not interested in going to college, or film school, for that matter. And it drives everyone else in his life crazy.
Written in a flashback journaling style, Greg details a small portion of his senior year in high school (which he hates, by the way). His mom pressures him to re-befriend a girl from long-ago Hebrew school becaus ...more
Written in a flashback journaling style, Greg details a small portion of his senior year in high school (which he hates, by the way). His mom pressures him to re-befriend a girl from long-ago Hebrew school becaus ...more
I liked the movie version of this book. I LOVED the book! One thing I appreciate about Jesse Andrew's writing is the way each character has a distinct way of speaking. He's a master of dialogue. Besides that, I enjoyed the humor and the fact that while a teenage girl dies, it's never sentimental and there's no easy answers or YA cliches. There's no Profound Lessons Learned, except that Greg and Earl never really knew Rachel at all. Finally, as a film geek from an early age who made recreations o
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Honest, hilarious, and quirky story. Andrews writes about difficult themes without being preachy, and without intention of teaching morality or life lessons. Instead, he acknowledges the reality that life can sometimes be dark and circumstances less than ideal. Characters are so well developed that I was left feeling like I knew them personally and was sad to have finished the book.
Oct 28, 2015
Karen
marked it as to-read
