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I really enjoyed this and it actually made me laugh out loud. I loved the voice and it seemed to me a very accurate portrayal of a teenage boy. However, I give it four stars instead of five because I'm not quite sure it's the kind of book that will stick with me forever...it wasn't full of amazing insights or prose. But it was quite good and definitely unique, and not in that trying-too-hard way that I hate.
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This book didn't quite match up to the hype surrounding it. Greg and his friend Earl befriend (on the insistence of Greg's mother) Rachel, who has recently been diagnosed with cancer. Greg and Earl have been making films together for almost ten years, although they are very reluctant to share them with anyone. When Earl shares one with Rachel, she doesn't hate it, and it leads to them making one for her.
I didn't really love Greg's voice throughout the book, it came off as self-centered and some ...more
I didn't really love Greg's voice throughout the book, it came off as self-centered and some ...more
I started and stopped this book half a dozen times before I made it out of the first chapter, for no reason that actually had to do with the book but more because I kept forgetting I had started reading it and then for whatever reason had to leave and do something else. I'm glad for some other inexplicable reason, I finally got a good ways into the book before I had to stop and go do something else, because I realized this book is effing awesome. It's raunchily funny and harsh and it's gritty an
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I wanted to love this book.. But the narrator felt too Holden-esque for me and I feel like it tried too hard to be against the normal vein of what's happening in the YA atmosphere lately.. Not that it's not a good thing but I couldn't really buy into the narrator. I'm going to hand it to Jon to read and see how he feels about it from a male perspective. Definitely feels like a book that's going to polarize people one way or another.
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Loved it.
Mar 18, 2013
Kevin McGill
marked it as to-read
Apr 14, 2013
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Apr 21, 2013
Penelope
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Oct 13, 2013
Spandana
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Feb 09, 2015
Haylee Luu
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Jun 21, 2015
Dee
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Oct 05, 2015
Loretta Gaffney
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