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nfelmus's review
5.0
Amazing! Wonderful! Addicting! Hilarious! Ned Vizzini wrote 3 great books. Hope he writes another.
kricketa's review
4.0
ned vizzini, esteemed author of "be more chill" & "it's kind of a funny story" wrote this little collection of essays in/just after high school. ned has an interesting collection of oddball friends, as well as lively hobbies (nintendo, "magic: the gathering," dominoes with strangers, and various musical efforts) and the combination of friends and hobbies make for highly entertaining blasts of true life.
hsienhsien27's review against another edition
3.0
Borrowed From Open Library
A year ago, I had read his second novel, It's Kind of a Funny Story. I remembered how it was such a beautiful book that made you smile in between the pages, and I had wished that I had known of it during high school, it was read during a summer where I was awaiting my first year of college, it was frightening. Eventually I got used to it, but I will admit that college is pretty lonely, but it's more tolerable than in high school, because there are so many things to do, where your homework and the school library's variety of books seemed to fill the empty hole.
Non-fiction isn't something I read often, including autobiographical stuff. There is something about the genre that just doesn't catch my attention, non-fiction is hard for me to concentrate on. Most of them are written in a sort of dry textbook prose, the only one that actually stuck to me was Eating Animals by Jonathon Safran Foer, which I read way before this blog existed.
I hate to say it, but I didn't really enjoy this much, because I have moved on from my teen years, somewhat. Then I realized that I never had any of these experiences, and who cares, its Ned's world in that paperback. Now that he has passed, he will live on between those pages, his brightness and his humor. No, I am not mourning his death in this post, but more like paying my respects, because it feels kind of awful, reviewing a person's life.
I will admit that the writing was pretty juvenile but at the same time it was fitting for a teen, a teen who reads but also has time to mess around with their friends outside in the fresh air. It's the words of an intelligent teen who took his education seriously but secretly wished to waltz outside and forget it all. Maybe. I will admit that I skimmed through most of this book, because it was something that I didn't particularly enjoy anymore. Despite that most people my age are still going through that "dude! Pot is so amazing, I love pot so much," it was nothing for me, it was something that I was over with, but then I never was one of those kids to begin with. I was a boring bookworm. The book is funny and sort of nostalgic, a book I would pass to others, my younger male cousins or male friends, my brother's the same age as me but maybe he would enjoy this. Teen Angst? is the sort of book for teenagers to learn about their own selves, to laugh at our own stupidity, a mirror to look at and say "Wow, I was foolish and crazy too."
Rating: 3/4
A year ago, I had read his second novel, It's Kind of a Funny Story. I remembered how it was such a beautiful book that made you smile in between the pages, and I had wished that I had known of it during high school, it was read during a summer where I was awaiting my first year of college, it was frightening. Eventually I got used to it, but I will admit that college is pretty lonely, but it's more tolerable than in high school, because there are so many things to do, where your homework and the school library's variety of books seemed to fill the empty hole.
Non-fiction isn't something I read often, including autobiographical stuff. There is something about the genre that just doesn't catch my attention, non-fiction is hard for me to concentrate on. Most of them are written in a sort of dry textbook prose, the only one that actually stuck to me was Eating Animals by Jonathon Safran Foer, which I read way before this blog existed.
I hate to say it, but I didn't really enjoy this much, because I have moved on from my teen years, somewhat. Then I realized that I never had any of these experiences, and who cares, its Ned's world in that paperback. Now that he has passed, he will live on between those pages, his brightness and his humor. No, I am not mourning his death in this post, but more like paying my respects, because it feels kind of awful, reviewing a person's life.
I will admit that the writing was pretty juvenile but at the same time it was fitting for a teen, a teen who reads but also has time to mess around with their friends outside in the fresh air. It's the words of an intelligent teen who took his education seriously but secretly wished to waltz outside and forget it all. Maybe. I will admit that I skimmed through most of this book, because it was something that I didn't particularly enjoy anymore. Despite that most people my age are still going through that "dude! Pot is so amazing, I love pot so much," it was nothing for me, it was something that I was over with, but then I never was one of those kids to begin with. I was a boring bookworm. The book is funny and sort of nostalgic, a book I would pass to others, my younger male cousins or male friends, my brother's the same age as me but maybe he would enjoy this. Teen Angst? is the sort of book for teenagers to learn about their own selves, to laugh at our own stupidity, a mirror to look at and say "Wow, I was foolish and crazy too."
Rating: 3/4