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3.39 AVERAGE
3.39 AVERAGE
It was not as good as I thought it would be, but it was not bad either. Fuck Ed
More like a 2.5.... it's a beautiful book and I loved the premise and how it was executed. I even liked the story itself. I just didn't care for the writing...at all. It bugged me the entire time I was reading it. Ahhhhh, the punctuation.....or lack of. There were so many run-on sentences. I'm not kidding, there was this one sentence that continued on for over half of the page.
Příběh dvouměsíčního vztahu dvou puberťáků popsaný v rozcházecím dopise. Každou kapitolu doplňuje obrázek předmětu, který hrál ve vztahu nějakou roli a Ona ho ukládá do krabice a vrací Jemu.
Mrzí mě, že jsem tuhle knížku neměla, když mi bylo patnáct. Měla bych hrdinku, se kterou bych se mohla identifikovat po každém dramatickém rozchodu. Je ale docela možné, že bych si řekla, že můj případ je naprosto unikátní a že to nikdo nemůže pochopit.
Mrzí mě, že jsem tuhle knížku neměla, když mi bylo patnáct. Měla bych hrdinku, se kterou bych se mohla identifikovat po každém dramatickém rozchodu. Je ale docela možné, že bych si řekla, že můj případ je naprosto unikátní a že to nikdo nemůže pochopit.
Tried to like it.. Didn't really like it.. Moving on. Nice pictures though
lemony snicket, i'm sorry but the anecdotes on the blurb were funnier than the actual book
It took me two months to finish this book so I guess I didn’t find it exactly engaging. While reading the first pages I had a very unpleasant déjà vu of “The Lover’s Dictionary”, and well, I wish I could say I was wrong but this book turned out to be just as bad.
There was a pretentious feeling in it I couldn’t shake off (I mean, an Italian café called Leopardi, seriously?).
The dialogues were supposed to be very casual, I guess, but at some point they crossed the line and they went from casual to excessively staged (thus bordering on the annoying and the nonsensical).
And then there’s Min. She’s smart and witty and doesn’t wear slutty Halloween costumes like all the other girls in school (though she’s beautiful so she could totally pull it off but she doesn’t have to because not only is she beautiful but she has something else too, which is why everyone is jealous of her *yawn* - also every time she tells someone she doesn’t drink beer they react like she’s said she likes to eat babies. I mean I know it’s high school and everything, but the clichés in this book sometimes went too far. She doesn’t drink beer, can we move on?) (No, as a matter of fact we can’t, because guess what, at some point she does start drinking, and I know things aren’t just black or white but this just seemed stupid and inconsistent).
Did I mention how super smart and witty she was, well, when her boyfriend says: “There’s something unavoidable coming up next weekend, and I think we should figure out how to do it.” She actually thinks he’s talking about sex. "Only stupid people would think I’m smart." Thank God you know, Minerva, thank God you know.
And she may have said that she was cool with him talking about his past girlfriends but man he kinda overdid it, even if it’s cool for her, it doesn’t make it any less weird when you talk casually about them almost all the time.
Also, is it really necessary to write a word in italic in each dialogue just to emphasize said word? I get it if you do it once or twice or ten times, but if you keep this up in every freaking piece of dialogue at some point I will want to shoot myself in the face (and I did, want to shoot myself in the face, I mean, not actually did shoot myself in the face). The same goes for the movie references, there were like a gazillion and that also started to annoy the hell out of me, every goddamn thing she did, she felt the need to tell that that girl in that movie did exactly the same thing! Oh my God! What a coincidence! And the fact that they were fake movies was just plain ridiculous.
Then there was this scene where she dances with her ex-boyfriend in front of her current boyfriend just to get back at him because he mistreated her earlier or some shit, but that’s okay, you know, because he is the asshole, the captain (sorry, co-captain) of the basketball team, so it’s okay for her to do this kind of stuff because she’s smart and witty and different. I’m starting to get why you broke up. (But that doesn’t mean he wasn’t an asshole, because he totally was).
The list of annoying/stupid things isn't over: at one point she says she doesn’t want her first time to be on his bed, that she wants it to be some place special, and later on this special place is revealed to be a motel. Eeexcuse me? Am I missing something? How is a freaking motel (which is described as plain and ugly) better than your boyfriend’s bedroom?
The only thing that kept me going was wanting to know the reason why they broke up, and this reason turned out to be dull and certainly didn’t deserve a whole book. It didn’t deserve a pseudo-poetic long letter written by the broken-hearted girl, which in my opinion kind of also sends a wrong message. Next time you find out your seemingly nice boyfriend is actually a stupid jackass (which by the way you should have known from the very beginning but I’m not here to judge), just set him on fire. Some stories just aren’t worth telling and this was one of them.
There was a pretentious feeling in it I couldn’t shake off (I mean, an Italian café called Leopardi, seriously?).
The dialogues were supposed to be very casual, I guess, but at some point they crossed the line and they went from casual to excessively staged (thus bordering on the annoying and the nonsensical).
And then there’s Min. She’s smart and witty and doesn’t wear slutty Halloween costumes like all the other girls in school (though she’s beautiful so she could totally pull it off but she doesn’t have to because not only is she beautiful but she has something else too, which is why everyone is jealous of her *yawn* - also every time she tells someone she doesn’t drink beer they react like she’s said she likes to eat babies. I mean I know it’s high school and everything, but the clichés in this book sometimes went too far. She doesn’t drink beer, can we move on?) (No, as a matter of fact we can’t, because guess what, at some point she does start drinking, and I know things aren’t just black or white but this just seemed stupid and inconsistent).
Did I mention how super smart and witty she was, well, when her boyfriend says: “There’s something unavoidable coming up next weekend, and I think we should figure out how to do it.” She actually thinks he’s talking about sex. "Only stupid people would think I’m smart." Thank God you know, Minerva, thank God you know.
And she may have said that she was cool with him talking about his past girlfriends but man he kinda overdid it, even if it’s cool for her, it doesn’t make it any less weird when you talk casually about them almost all the time.
Also, is it really necessary to write a word in italic in each dialogue just to emphasize said word? I get it if you do it once or twice or ten times, but if you keep this up in every freaking piece of dialogue at some point I will want to shoot myself in the face (and I did, want to shoot myself in the face, I mean, not actually did shoot myself in the face). The same goes for the movie references, there were like a gazillion and that also started to annoy the hell out of me, every goddamn thing she did, she felt the need to tell that that girl in that movie did exactly the same thing! Oh my God! What a coincidence! And the fact that they were fake movies was just plain ridiculous.
Then there was this scene where she dances with her ex-boyfriend in front of her current boyfriend just to get back at him because he mistreated her earlier or some shit, but that’s okay, you know, because he is the asshole, the captain (sorry, co-captain) of the basketball team, so it’s okay for her to do this kind of stuff because she’s smart and witty and different. I’m starting to get why you broke up. (But that doesn’t mean he wasn’t an asshole, because he totally was).
The list of annoying/stupid things isn't over: at one point she says she doesn’t want her first time to be on his bed, that she wants it to be some place special, and later on this special place is revealed to be a motel. Eeexcuse me? Am I missing something? How is a freaking motel (which is described as plain and ugly) better than your boyfriend’s bedroom?
The only thing that kept me going was wanting to know the reason why they broke up, and this reason turned out to be dull and certainly didn’t deserve a whole book. It didn’t deserve a pseudo-poetic long letter written by the broken-hearted girl, which in my opinion kind of also sends a wrong message. Next time you find out your seemingly nice boyfriend is actually a stupid jackass (which by the way you should have known from the very beginning but I’m not here to judge), just set him on fire. Some stories just aren’t worth telling and this was one of them.
I would follow Daniel Handler anywhere.
Don't read this book on a Kindle. The art is way too good for that. Needs to be held in your hand.
Don't read this book on a Kindle. The art is way too good for that. Needs to be held in your hand.
Handler's book, a blend of epistolary prose and amazing illustrations by Maira Kalman, captures the teenage girl's experience of a break-up. I love this book because it captures all of the convoluted emotions--both big and small--that surround teenage break-up. In a way that only Daniel Handler can, WHY WE BROKE UP is a visual, emotional, and even comical journey through the highs and lows of first love.