The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown 3/5 Let’s get this out of the way. This is big dumb weird book that is far up its own ass and pompous and pretentious and also big and dumb. Also, I love it. There’s a version of me, you’ve probably met him….for me, he was a senior in college and he carved his entire existence out of resisting mass culture….except you know…the right kind of mass culture….and loved jokes that the Family Guy mad about Dan Brown. But […]
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
One thing that I enjoyed about Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was the way the author is constantly talking to you. This made the book enjoyable for me as I felt that I was having a conversation with the narrator. The narrator is Greg, a high school senior. He has one goal in school, to be part of every group in school yet to be friends with no one; this is something that he is surprisingly able to do. He feels like he is […]
“It’s a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks.”
In fact, high school is where we are first introduced to the basic existential question of life: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad? I downloaded Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl from the library a few weeks ago. It’s the “other book” about kids with cancer and hasn’t been discussed with quite as much fervor or passion as The Book. Confession time: I still haven’t read The Fault in our Stars. I love you, John Greene, but I […]
Good book with an obnoxious narrator
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, which has very little, really, to do with a dying girl (she’s a catalyst, and an audience, but that’s about it) has one of the most obnoxious narrators I’ve ever read. He’s so self-deprecating and whiny that I wanted to strangle him. I actually really enjoyed the book, but the fact that he kept cutting in with “If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you” — this […]