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Alex Woods is a unique teenage protagonist. He is struck in the head by a meteorite when he is 10 years old and that makes him exceptional. He suffers seizures as a result and has a scar on his forehead like Harry Potter. He really has no friends except for an old pot smoking, Vietnam vet named Isaac Peterson. The form a unique friendship and it is this relationship that changes Alex Woods.
Alex has a mother who is a fortune teller, a set of bullies who follow him around and taunt him, and a cat ...more
Alex has a mother who is a fortune teller, a set of bullies who follow him around and taunt him, and a cat ...more
Today I read this, and so today was a good day. As it's now gone midnight, though, a review will have to wait, suffice to say, I loved it and see now that it fully deserved the hype.
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I don't know where to begin. This was an amazing book. Great with the story it told of a young man, Alex, being friends with an older man, Mr. Peterson and how Alex helped Mr. Peterson achieve a very difficult goal. I primarily liked how well it so realistically told what the Alex's life was like with him being a temporal lobe epileptic, his relationship with his neurologist, the medicine he took, and what the seizures he had were like to have.
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