The Miseducation of Cameron Post
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Am I the only one...
InYourFaceNewYorker
May 30, 2013 03:02PM
...who found this book to be unnecessarily long and with a lot of filler? Cam's getting high gets old very quickly, and the fact that it takes over 200 pages to get to the point where she gets sent to Jesus camp is ridiculous. And I also found that the stuff at the Jesus camp fell flat too. And the ending was anticlimactic. Anybody else feel this way?
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I actually felt the book was done correctly. Having grown up in that same decade a lot of it fit well. And yes the kids find many ways to smoke. The Jesus schools will ignore some of that stuff if they are worried about something else.
I didn't find it to be "long winded" at all. The ruminations of Cameron with her reform camp friends was a good way to reiterate the irreverent nature of the group. Aunt Ruth's canned responses also show us her strict, moral nature. Coley's character was not unique or differentiated in any meaningful way from Cameron, but other than that, the dialogue was believable and not merely filler IMHO.
Yes to all. I skimmed through a great many pages, myself. The ending was a rip off.
InYourFaceNewYorker
Nice. Did you get tired of the constant pot-smoking? And find it hard to believe that at a Jesus camp where everybody would be heavily supervised so m
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