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good. but I quit halfway thru after reading so many terrible reviews saying to quit before you invested too much time into it. so up to about 100 pages, it was good.
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This guy seemed like an idiot. Was it the larger -than-normal print in the book? The way he talked? A lot of the time, I couldn't focus on the story because of how bad the writing was.
The story was heartbreaking. But it seemed really watered down with immature language and sentence structure .
The story was heartbreaking. But it seemed really watered down with immature language and sentence structure .
Dark, but a little too far-flung for me. Not a tight enough plot. Too meandering and distracted.
I knew this was going to be Palahniuk-inspired. I liked most of what I've read of Chucky P but his newest additions weren't as good as the classics (Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Lullaby).
So this book is about a craaaaazy, Too Hot For TV teenager. She pulls crazy "art" stunts and indulges her every reckless whim. She has a tight-knit group of friends. Her parents are fucked up and negligent.
This book is about an ignored teen screaming for attention.
I loved (and identified, big time with) the dialogue, but I was kind of bored with the "Thera-tainment" value. These friends could have been my friends, they're versatile and ubiquitous, if not hyperboles. The parents were well built and struggling with their own problems. The story built toward an ending -but as usual- when the ending came, I wasn't satisfied. It was a little too deus ex machina.
Parts of it are squirm-worthy. Reckless abandon. Violence. Ida/Dora doesn't really experience much of a growth spurt. But maybe the writer was trying to show that, how did she put it? "Sometimes your whole life happens in those years, and the rest of your life it's just the same story playing out with different characters. I could die tomorrow and have lived the main ups and downs of life. Pain. Loss. Love." So maybe she wasn't supposed to grow and change.
But the epilogue discussing the three times she met Sig in the future makes it seem like she just shed that lifestyle along with her fucked up parents. So maybe she wasn't really crazy, she was just an orphan who needed more time perfecting the concept of Family.
So this book is about a craaaaazy, Too Hot For TV teenager. She pulls crazy "art" stunts and indulges her every reckless whim. She has a tight-knit group of friends. Her parents are fucked up and negligent.
This book is about an ignored teen screaming for attention.
I loved (and identified, big time with) the dialogue, but I was kind of bored with the "Thera-tainment" value. These friends could have been my friends, they're versatile and ubiquitous, if not hyperboles. The parents were well built and struggling with their own problems. The story built toward an ending -but as usual- when the ending came, I wasn't satisfied. It was a little too deus ex machina.
Parts of it are squirm-worthy. Reckless abandon. Violence. Ida/Dora doesn't really experience much of a growth spurt. But maybe the writer was trying to show that, how did she put it? "Sometimes your whole life happens in those years, and the rest of your life it's just the same story playing out with different characters. I could die tomorrow and have lived the main ups and downs of life. Pain. Loss. Love." So maybe she wasn't supposed to grow and change.
But the epilogue discussing the three times she met Sig in the future makes it seem like she just shed that lifestyle along with her fucked up parents. So maybe she wasn't really crazy, she was just an orphan who needed more time perfecting the concept of Family.