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Why We Broke Up
by Daniel Handler
After reading everyone else's reviews I can now write mine.
This left my mind and emotions whirling, and now I'm just sitting on my bed not knowing how to feel. I don't know whether to give it a 3 or 3.5 star rating.
The book is not what I expected. I expected... I really don't know.... I thought I would love it. I really did. But I only loved certain aspects.
I loved how different it was.
I loved how realistic it was although it was difficult to read at times, but you understood, like someone's review states, that she is just writing it and not editing her work.
I loved the illustrations that were in it.
When I first read the book, I instantly didn't like Min, because I thought she was being too harsh, but then I calmed myself and reminded myself that it was a break up letter and that she is still bitter about what happened, so I let it slide. Then I started to be okay with her. She didn't shy away, she knew who was and how she felt. And I have to admit it did kind of irritate me when she would reference movies. I mean she did it 92% of the book. Which probably made it long. But that was who she was.
Now about Ed. You couldn't help but approve of him over time, but you couldn't get attached to him and Min because he did something to Min and was the cause of the break up. I personally started to like him up til I found out his infidelity. And I thought she wasn't' harsh enough in the letter, but whatever.
It was flattering that they said Min was "different"a couple of time, but when Ed kept saying it it seemed like an insult. Like he could have clarified and say better-different.
The book was long and it did get sidetracked, but like I stated before this is a girl writing everything on her mind- it's real, humans get sidetracked.
At first I got confused because she kept saying how she should have known or paid attention to the hints that she should have broken up with him then, and I kept rereading to see what she meant, so I gave up. When I reached the end, i thought about the hints and understood that the hints were telling her something was wrong, especially when Ed's sister was quiet or awkward.
After awhile, I guessed what happened and the reason they broke up.
The problems I had with this book was probably my not understanding how her retelling their story was why they broke up or why it happened.
Then she kept mention how much she didn't like her mother and the reader never gets to know why or what happened to her dad. But of course, because Ed is suppose to know and it is a letter to him not to us.
And the big problem is just my desire, because I want to see how things are now. Is Ed really heartbroken? I would be satisfied to know that he is depressed.
You don't really get closure even when she does. Or at least I didn't really feel any.
Plus what didn't make any sense was that if he doesn't like to read I'm pretty sure he won't read her long letter.
This left my mind and emotions whirling, and now I'm just sitting on my bed not knowing how to feel. I don't know whether to give it a 3 or 3.5 star rating.
The book is not what I expected. I expected... I really don't know.... I thought I would love it. I really did. But I only loved certain aspects.
I loved how different it was.
I loved how realistic it was although it was difficult to read at times, but you understood, like someone's review states, that she is just writing it and not editing her work.
I loved the illustrations that were in it.
When I first read the book, I instantly didn't like Min, because I thought she was being too harsh, but then I calmed myself and reminded myself that it was a break up letter and that she is still bitter about what happened, so I let it slide. Then I started to be okay with her. She didn't shy away, she knew who was and how she felt. And I have to admit it did kind of irritate me when she would reference movies. I mean she did it 92% of the book. Which probably made it long. But that was who she was.
Now about Ed. You couldn't help but approve of him over time, but you couldn't get attached to him and Min because he did something to Min and was the cause of the break up. I personally started to like him up til I found out his infidelity. And I thought she wasn't' harsh enough in the letter, but whatever.
It was flattering that they said Min was "different"a couple of time, but when Ed kept saying it it seemed like an insult. Like he could have clarified and say better-different.
The book was long and it did get sidetracked, but like I stated before this is a girl writing everything on her mind- it's real, humans get sidetracked.
At first I got confused because she kept saying how she should have known or paid attention to the hints that she should have broken up with him then, and I kept rereading to see what she meant, so I gave up. When I reached the end, i thought about the hints and understood that the hints were telling her something was wrong, especially when Ed's sister was quiet or awkward.
After awhile, I guessed what happened and the reason they broke up.
The problems I had with this book was probably my not understanding how her retelling their story was why they broke up or why it happened.
Then she kept mention how much she didn't like her mother and the reader never gets to know why or what happened to her dad. But of course, because Ed is suppose to know and it is a letter to him not to us.
And the big problem is just my desire, because I want to see how things are now. Is Ed really heartbroken? I would be satisfied to know that he is depressed.
Spoiler
She says that she is sad to hear about Annette. Is it intended that they didn't get together? Why she seemed to like him- the tramp. <\spoiler>You don't really get closure even when she does. Or at least I didn't really feel any.
Plus what didn't make any sense was that if he doesn't like to read I'm pretty sure he won't read her long letter.