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blakehalsey's review
4.0
A great read with a funny, honest male protagonist. Andy struggles in high school--with his weight, with fitting in, with girls. Football gives him a way in, but also gives him a way to figure himself out. The pacing was really great in this book and I really connected with Andy. A realistic look into high school.
brookeje60's review
5.0
hillarious book. it was really really funny and it gave me a lot to think about. also really relateable. even though i'm not a guy, it was easy to relate to the main character. (: loved itt.
lphel's review
4.0
This was a good realistic fiction story with a bit of a plot twist. I liked how the protagonist, Andrew Zansky, didn't necessarily fit into the cliche of "nerd turned popular" in high school like I was expecting from the beginning. This book is definitely more for high school students. There is a lot of inappropriate language and mature topics.
eramhussain's review
3.0
"Everything fells better when I'm eating."
This is the first book I have read about a guy with body shape issues, usually it is only shown in girls. It is a fast paced and funny book. The characters are realistic and original. Obviously there is a main hero, his best friend, a girl he likes and a bad guy like every other book.
This book follows the same pattern like every book with obesity. The fat guy hates himself for his weight, the society makes fun of him, he tries to change himself, towards the end does something great and then accepts himself for who he is.
But it is also about friendships and relationships, breaking out of your comfort zone and discovering yourself.
The part I did not like was about Football. For me it all looked quite fake and set up from the start. How easily he got in even without any experience in the field. I mean he could barely run.
Doesn't Andrew's sister have an eating disorder? Or only I thought about it?
"Small food,small people. Extremely hard to resist."
This is the first book I have read about a guy with body shape issues, usually it is only shown in girls. It is a fast paced and funny book. The characters are realistic and original. Obviously there is a main hero, his best friend, a girl he likes and a bad guy like every other book.
This book follows the same pattern like every book with obesity. The fat guy hates himself for his weight, the society makes fun of him, he tries to change himself, towards the end does something great and then accepts himself for who he is.
But it is also about friendships and relationships, breaking out of your comfort zone and discovering yourself.
The part I did not like was about Football. For me it all looked quite fake and set up from the start. How easily he got in even without any experience in the field. I mean he could barely run.
Doesn't Andrew's sister have an eating disorder? Or only I thought about it?
"Small food,small people. Extremely hard to resist."
lilliangretsinger's review
3.0
As a girl, it is always fun to read a book with a male POV.
This book was interesting. I liked Andy's journey of self-discovery. I must admit I skimmed over the foot-ball scenes a bit (I don't understand the game).
This book was interesting. I liked Andy's journey of self-discovery. I must admit I skimmed over the foot-ball scenes a bit (I don't understand the game).
lazygal's review
4.0
I kind of identified with Andy, not because I was a teenage boy, but because I was a teenage fat person. It's universal: not wanting to change in front of others, the hating shopping/clothes thing, the feeling invisible except you know you're not. Unlike Andy, I wasn't in love with a Hot Girl, nor was I rescued from a bully by The Football Guy. O (Football Guy's name) is one of those sports gods who pretty much floats through high school being The Guy - the cute, everyone-has-a-crush-on, not completely intelligent, doesn't quite get what friendship really is guy. And of course Andy is thrilled, albeit a little suspicious, when O befriends him.
It takes Andy (who has quite a sense of humor about life, being fat and being a sophomore guy) a few months to figure out who he is, who he wants to be, and who his friends really are. There's betrayal, but there's some genuine stuff here that readers can relate to.
And then there's the setting: Newton MA. What's not to love about that?
It takes Andy (who has quite a sense of humor about life, being fat and being a sophomore guy) a few months to figure out who he is, who he wants to be, and who his friends really are. There's betrayal, but there's some genuine stuff here that readers can relate to.
And then there's the setting: Newton MA. What's not to love about that?
librariann's review
3.0
Ages 12+ (sex talk and some language, but nothing graphic)
Fat guy Andy learns a few lessons during his sophomore year of high school. What it's like to be popular. What it's like to play football. What it's like to have people use you. A realistic and sensitive (but not sappy) guy book. I found it much more in the vein of realistic than humorous, but clearly others have found it funny, so.
A quick read, I can take it or leave it. Mike was the first to read it and thought it was okay.
Fat guy Andy learns a few lessons during his sophomore year of high school. What it's like to be popular. What it's like to play football. What it's like to have people use you. A realistic and sensitive (but not sappy) guy book. I found it much more in the vein of realistic than humorous, but clearly others have found it funny, so.
A quick read, I can take it or leave it. Mike was the first to read it and thought it was okay.