Jesse Andrews
And his whole plan the mediocrity, the movies, the periphery crumbles into dust,
This one surprised me,
Greg's story is certainly not a typicalteencancer sort of book,
It didn't dance around the topic, it didn't tug at your heartstrings in just the right way, and there was no chastefadetoblack sex scene.
There are so many beautifulcancerbooks out there that this one was truly a relief,
This book was funny, crass, rude and above all, absolutely real, And for that, I truly appreciate this novel,
There were times where I wanted to shake Greg, shake Rachel, shake Greg and Rachel at the same time, . . and above all wrap Earl in a huge hug,
Definitely one to read!
sitelinkYouTube sitelinkBlog sitelinkInstagram sitelinkTwitter sitelinkFacebook Snapchat mirandareads aw man, i'm really bummed about not COMPLETELY LOVING this book since i've heard so much praise for it,
it was just okay for me, some of the time, the jokes landed and i'd be smiling while reading, but more often than not, the jokes didn't land, greg is verymuchsuperaware of his own stupidity as he likes to remind you every other line, but that didn't really help much, yikes that sounds mean i'm sorry
it's a creatively written book, which is something i can very much appreciate, jesse andrews makes it very fun and easy to read,
but overall, it wasn't really my style, This was funny and realistic and I kinda don't really know how to
feel about it
Even though at the end of each chapter and there arechapters, plus an author's note and an epilogue, the narrator keeps nagging at the reader about how stupid this book is and how the reader will not learn anything, I on the contrary have an endless list to negate such claim.
All of these things and more are what I learned from the book:
, If the author through his main character keeps warning you to stop reading his "stupid book", by all means read it, Even if he tells you that you might want to commit homicide or murder the author himself after reading the book, READ IT.
Because I can promise you that it is going to be one of the most original books you'll ever read,
. The book made me realize that Veronica Roth patterned the premise of her phenomenal series on the most mundane and most common institution the High School.
It's really no different from a post apocalyptic society with factions like the ff:
a, The Band Group Amity
b, The Theater GroupAbnegation
c, The Smart Group Erudite
d, The Jocs Candor
e, The Stoners Dauntless
f, The loners Factionless.
Note: The classifications of high school factions are from the book, The analysis and the link to Divergent factions were done by yours truly,
. I'm not very good with acronyms and it's always a pleasure to learn a new one, I learned one from the book, HGWAASGHPAWNIDYL as in Hot Girls Who Are Also Sympathetic GoodHearted People and Will Not Intentionally Destroy Your Life, LMAO!
. I learned a lot about film making,
. The general idea about how people look like rodents or birds,
. The excessive modesty reflex which is clearly annoying but it just can't be helped,
. Just because something is weird and hard to understand doesn't mean it's creative, Lol. This is HONESTLY true!
, The use of the phrase "little did I know" totally doesn't make sense and I was laughing so hard because I sometimes use this phrase in my reviews.
That is definitely going to change from now on,
. Books about cancer don't always have to be terribly emotional and heartbreaking and that it's possible for a book to make me laugh out loud page after page.
. That for a book to be smart doesn't have to include extremely smart characters and sophisticated words,
Such an unusual approach to this kind of story a guy's reluctant friendship with a girl who's suffering with Leukemia, and while it should be a coming of age with some heartwarming scenes I spent most of the novel thinking he's a gigantic dick.
And that just made it feel more real and understandable, That might seem like a strange sentence until you read the book, sitelink
Overall a great read, Jesse Andrews needs to release more books!
My full review can be found here:
sitelink youtube. com/watchvtlbe .stars
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a very strange book indeed, Im sure some of you read the blurb and thought: Not another cancer book! Really, are books about teens with cancer the new black! Yeah, I thought so too.
It turns out that this book has very little to do with cancer, It has more to do with several other, completely unrelated things like filmmaking, high school social structure, odd friendships and nagging parents, Its certainly not a sob story, The only tears Id shed while reading it were caused by laughter,
My point is this: This book contains precisely zero Important Life Lessons, or LittleKnown Facts About Love, or sappy tearjerking Moments When We Knew We Had Left Our Childhood Behind For Good or whatever.
And, unlike most books in which a girl gets cancer, there are definitely no sugary paradoxical singlesentenceparagraphs that youre supposed to think are deep because theyre in italics.
This is where I would normally write a lengthy plot summary, but Im afraid my usual reviewing patterns simply wont work for this book.
Greg Gaines is a normal, awkward teenage boy who prides himself in the fact that he doesnt belong to any of the usual groups in high school, but is on friendly terms with everyone.
He only has one real friend, his complete opposite, Earl, When a girl from his school gets leukemia, Gregs mother makes Greg spend time with her, and as much as he doesnt want to, hes too afraid of his mother to say no.
Greg Gaines, our main character, assumed the role of the author, which led to a lot of selfdeprecating humor and made me think that he was also, at least partly, an author surrogate.
Although Ill be the first to admit that his observations about his own writing were often hilarious, I did feel that the whole thing was overdone at times.
A good joke can only be good for so long before it becomes downright annoying, Heres just one example:
And thats part of the backstory for me and Earl, Itll probably be relevant later, although who really knows, I cant believe youre still reading this, You should smack yourself in the face a couple of times right now, just to complete the outstandingly stupid experience that is this book.
That is just one example in which an invisible line was crossed and Gregs story stopped being funny and became eyeroll inducing.
That doesnt mean, however, that this book didnt have incredibly funny moments, It is, after all, based almost entirely on humor, and the kind of humor that actually worked for me most of the time, It is what kept me reading even after I realized that there isnt an actual plot to speak of, The fact that it took me a while to even notice says enough about the kind of narrative were dealing with here,
I honestly think that Im not the intended audience for this book, but that didnt stop me from enjoying it, In many ways, it provides a realistic insight into a teenage boys mind, and thats something we I dont see enough of, Do I think you should read this book Definitely, Its not a book that youll read compulsively, so its best to pick it up when youre otherwise preoccupied, Its one of those books you can abandon for a while and go back to whenever you feel like it, There are times when thats exactly what Im looking for: a light, fun read that will allow me to focus on other, more important things.
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If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you, Greg Gaines survived most of high school by following his flawless system of staying at the periphery be nice but not too nice.
Laugh but not too loud, Exist but only enough for people to barely notice,
He has his meritocracy, his longtime friend Earl and his quirky collection of homemade movies made with Earl he's all ready to survive, graduate and move on.
But then his mom decides to throw one huge wrench in his great aims of blending into the background by forcing him to be friends with the cancergirl.
Mom was asking me to resume a friendship that had no honest foundation and ended on screamingly awkward terms, How do you do that You cant,And with much grumbling and prodding and outright threatening, he agrees,
And his whole plan the mediocrity, the movies, the periphery crumbles into dust,
There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, . you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit you, and then when it does, that's when you feel like shit.Wow like seriously, wow,
This one surprised me,
Greg's story is certainly not a typicalteencancer sort of book,
So if this were a normal book about a girl with leukemia, I would probably talk a shitload about all the meaningful things Rachel had to say as she got sicker and sicker, and also probably we would fall in love and have some incredibly fulfilling romantic thing and she would die in my arms.Jesse Andrew's novel simply felt more real than all of those other ones I've read,
But I don't feel like lying to you, She didn't have meaningful things to say, and we definitely didn't fall in love,
It didn't dance around the topic, it didn't tug at your heartstrings in just the right way, and there was no chastefadetoblack sex scene.
There are so many beautifulcancerbooks out there that this one was truly a relief,
This book was funny, crass, rude and above all, absolutely real, And for that, I truly appreciate this novel,
There were times where I wanted to shake Greg, shake Rachel, shake Greg and Rachel at the same time, . . and above all wrap Earl in a huge hug,
Definitely one to read!
But you gotta live your own life, You gotta take care a your own shit before you get started doing things for errybody else,
sitelinkYouTube sitelinkBlog sitelinkInstagram sitelinkTwitter sitelinkFacebook Snapchat mirandareads aw man, i'm really bummed about not COMPLETELY LOVING this book since i've heard so much praise for it,
it was just okay for me, some of the time, the jokes landed and i'd be smiling while reading, but more often than not, the jokes didn't land, greg is verymuchsuperaware of his own stupidity as he likes to remind you every other line, but that didn't really help much, yikes that sounds mean i'm sorry
it's a creatively written book, which is something i can very much appreciate, jesse andrews makes it very fun and easy to read,
but overall, it wasn't really my style, This was funny and realistic and I kinda don't really know how to
feel about it
Even though at the end of each chapter and there arechapters, plus an author's note and an epilogue, the narrator keeps nagging at the reader about how stupid this book is and how the reader will not learn anything, I on the contrary have an endless list to negate such claim.
All of these things and more are what I learned from the book:
, If the author through his main character keeps warning you to stop reading his "stupid book", by all means read it, Even if he tells you that you might want to commit homicide or murder the author himself after reading the book, READ IT.
Because I can promise you that it is going to be one of the most original books you'll ever read,
. The book made me realize that Veronica Roth patterned the premise of her phenomenal series on the most mundane and most common institution the High School.
It's really no different from a post apocalyptic society with factions like the ff:
a, The Band Group Amity
b, The Theater GroupAbnegation
c, The Smart Group Erudite
d, The Jocs Candor
e, The Stoners Dauntless
f, The loners Factionless.
Note: The classifications of high school factions are from the book, The analysis and the link to Divergent factions were done by yours truly,
. I'm not very good with acronyms and it's always a pleasure to learn a new one, I learned one from the book, HGWAASGHPAWNIDYL as in Hot Girls Who Are Also Sympathetic GoodHearted People and Will Not Intentionally Destroy Your Life, LMAO!
. I learned a lot about film making,
. The general idea about how people look like rodents or birds,
. The excessive modesty reflex which is clearly annoying but it just can't be helped,
. Just because something is weird and hard to understand doesn't mean it's creative, Lol. This is HONESTLY true!
, The use of the phrase "little did I know" totally doesn't make sense and I was laughing so hard because I sometimes use this phrase in my reviews.
That is definitely going to change from now on,
. Books about cancer don't always have to be terribly emotional and heartbreaking and that it's possible for a book to make me laugh out loud page after page.
. That for a book to be smart doesn't have to include extremely smart characters and sophisticated words,
Such an unusual approach to this kind of story a guy's reluctant friendship with a girl who's suffering with Leukemia, and while it should be a coming of age with some heartwarming scenes I spent most of the novel thinking he's a gigantic dick.
And that just made it feel more real and understandable, That might seem like a strange sentence until you read the book, sitelink
Overall a great read, Jesse Andrews needs to release more books!
My full review can be found here:
sitelink youtube. com/watchvtlbe .stars
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a very strange book indeed, Im sure some of you read the blurb and thought: Not another cancer book! Really, are books about teens with cancer the new black! Yeah, I thought so too.
It turns out that this book has very little to do with cancer, It has more to do with several other, completely unrelated things like filmmaking, high school social structure, odd friendships and nagging parents, Its certainly not a sob story, The only tears Id shed while reading it were caused by laughter,
My point is this: This book contains precisely zero Important Life Lessons, or LittleKnown Facts About Love, or sappy tearjerking Moments When We Knew We Had Left Our Childhood Behind For Good or whatever.
And, unlike most books in which a girl gets cancer, there are definitely no sugary paradoxical singlesentenceparagraphs that youre supposed to think are deep because theyre in italics.
This is where I would normally write a lengthy plot summary, but Im afraid my usual reviewing patterns simply wont work for this book.
Greg Gaines is a normal, awkward teenage boy who prides himself in the fact that he doesnt belong to any of the usual groups in high school, but is on friendly terms with everyone.
He only has one real friend, his complete opposite, Earl, When a girl from his school gets leukemia, Gregs mother makes Greg spend time with her, and as much as he doesnt want to, hes too afraid of his mother to say no.
Greg Gaines, our main character, assumed the role of the author, which led to a lot of selfdeprecating humor and made me think that he was also, at least partly, an author surrogate.
Although Ill be the first to admit that his observations about his own writing were often hilarious, I did feel that the whole thing was overdone at times.
A good joke can only be good for so long before it becomes downright annoying, Heres just one example:
And thats part of the backstory for me and Earl, Itll probably be relevant later, although who really knows, I cant believe youre still reading this, You should smack yourself in the face a couple of times right now, just to complete the outstandingly stupid experience that is this book.
That is just one example in which an invisible line was crossed and Gregs story stopped being funny and became eyeroll inducing.
That doesnt mean, however, that this book didnt have incredibly funny moments, It is, after all, based almost entirely on humor, and the kind of humor that actually worked for me most of the time, It is what kept me reading even after I realized that there isnt an actual plot to speak of, The fact that it took me a while to even notice says enough about the kind of narrative were dealing with here,
I honestly think that Im not the intended audience for this book, but that didnt stop me from enjoying it, In many ways, it provides a realistic insight into a teenage boys mind, and thats something we I dont see enough of, Do I think you should read this book Definitely, Its not a book that youll read compulsively, so its best to pick it up when youre otherwise preoccupied, Its one of those books you can abandon for a while and go back to whenever you feel like it, There are times when thats exactly what Im looking for: a light, fun read that will allow me to focus on other, more important things.
.