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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Unreadable. Perhaps the story is interesting, I couldn't get past the writing to find out. ( ) 1 thing U must no is that this book has lots and lots of run-on sentences that seem 2 go on & on & on & on and change the subject all over the place & take up a whole paragraph which can take up a whole page & there instead of spelling out whole words the author uses single numbers & letters and 2 much punctuation or no punctuation at all 2 make it seem like a real live 10th grader wrote the book!!!!!!! Perhaps if the 10th grader only had two fingers or wrote the entire novel on his cell phone, I'd buy it. But I thought the author was trying too hard to sound "genuine". Alex award winner? Feh..... This was my favorite book from the summer of 2006. I took it to a cabin in the San Juan Islands we were staying at with friends, and I laughed so much that every time I set the book down one of my friends had picked it up to read it. The lack of commas does take getting used to, occasionally I had to reread a run-on sentence once or twice before I got it, but the voice that comes through when you hear this fifteen year old kid talking at you in your head is worth the trouble. I hope this author has more than one novel in him, can't wait to read his next one. no reviews | add a review
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Jeremiah Reskin has big plans for tenth grade--he wants to make some friends and he wants to take a girl's shirt off. It's not going too well at first, but when he meets a group of semibohemian outcasts, things start to change. Soon he's negotiating his way through group back rubs and trying to find the courage to make a move on Renee Shopmaker, the hottest girl in school. At the behest of his composition teacher, Jeremy's also chronicling everything in his own novel--a disastrously ungrammatical but unflinching look at sophomore year. No library descriptions found. |
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