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by anonymousThursday, December 8, 2005 [3:36 pm]

You're right-on in supporting this book (I saw the link for your review through Ned Vizzini's site, and I'm a fan of his so this is obviously a bit biased of an opinion). This book actually is funny for teen girls (and women in general) because you never realized that all this stuff is going on in the head of adolescent boys. It's like, whoa... sex isn't the only thing they think about? It really helps the female members of the human race see that guys are actually a lot like them, in the area of social concerns anyway. Girls often just worry about getting boys to like them and don't think the boys are having the exact same worries.
Not to mention it's a very funny and mostly true social commentary on high school, and it's very much "with the times", not like one of those health videos high schoolers have to watch at some point where the kids all are trapped in the 80s and look and act nothing like real kids today.
Anyway, I just wanted to say I liked your review and your willingness to give "teen literature" a chance.

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