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May 22, 2015OhMissJamie rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Fantastic narrator; very long story - started off great, and then completely lost it's direction in endless teenage substance abuse and irrelevant bloat. Prose heavy and full of fluff. I wouldn't have been able to get through it without the narrator, whose excellent skills make an irritating, simpering main character bearable. The descriptions were very pretty, painted a very clear picture in the mind, but this book would have been much better if it were half as long. Still, I loved the depth of the characters (whose complexity and amiability I attribute more to the narrator's performance) and the way people and places were described. I'm also heartened to see an author talking about how really pointless and crappy this whole "life thing" is, without being maudlin and 'poor me' about it. Just matter-of-fact, even cheerily : "Life is completely pointless, what are you going to do?"