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A review by navsy
Gone, Gone, Gone by Hannah Moskowitz
2.0
Sometimes while I’m reading a book, I keep thinking that is it a story to tell; which in itself is a clue that I’m not into the story but then if it isn’t all that bad, I finish it. After I’m done, I reconsider my thoughts and for Gone Gone Gone my thoughts are that it really wasn’t a story to tell and damn it I want my hours back! I could have read a perfectly decent story or something that was funny.
It’s a story about two boys who are screwed up in their own ways and have no one else other than each other and then they are together and happy..but that’s not an issue. My question is: What did the shooting spree have anything to do with it? What had 9/11 to do with it? It could have been a story in perfectly normal circumstances and nothing would have mattered. Was it just something to draw the public in? Or was it something that Lio and Craig could fight over? There were many other incidents that hardly made sense to me; for instance, why did Lio have to get drunk and then ramble infront of Craig? Did it have any significance in their budding relationship? Most of the story felt like incoherent mumbling to me.
Craig is a guy who can’t get over his ex-boyfriend Cody, whose father’s death made him unstable. He still loves him and thinks that it was his fault that he couldn’t fix him. So he gets a lot of pets that he can love and fix as if that would make his hurt over Cody any better. It’s his idea of dealing when in actuality, he isn’t. He breaks down over every other thing and basically chatters like if he doesn’t get the words out they’d strangle him or something. Reading his monologue made me feel like I was listening to a really high fella talk incessantly.
Ew. I hate that word. Like girls have animals in their pants or something. I have no desire to know what girls have in their pants but I do really hope none of it is alive, and I don’t think even newborn kittens in a girl’s pants could make me go down there. This is so gross. Why am I still thinking about this? I hate karate.
^ This is an example of Craig rambling on and on. It was cute at places but then it was just nonsense. I agree with what he just said ^ there and now it has got me wondering why it’s called a pussy. Is it..what I’m thinking it is? If it’s not then I think I just have a sick perverted mind; which is normal, right? Please tell me it’s normal. Ugh! Now my brain is thinking other things I don’t want to be thinking. I hate you for making me think so many things Craig! Damn you!
I need to calm down…
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Hm. I’m back. Alright, so Lio…
Lio is a very shy guy who survived cancer when he was really young and his twin didn’t and his mother left his father and he has a million sisters and he loves them all very much. He’s been getting therapy for about seven years and he has many emotions locked up inside him but he opens up to Craig; starts loving him infact, which is sweet and at the same time confusing. I understand why both of them need each other. For Craig it’s because he thinks Lio is some broken kid he has to fix, which is really messed up and for Lio, Craig is the only person he can relate to. This is what confuses me. Why is it Craig? Because he thinks that Craig can fix him? Or is it because he hasn’t ever opened up to anyone before as he has to Craig through IM?
I can’t even pinpoint anything that I exactly like about this story. As I’ve already mentioned, it doesn’t feel like a story that needs to be told. Oh wait! I know what I liked about this story. ANIMALS! There were so many pets! I remember crying myself to sleep when one of my dogs went missing in 5th grade. I was so miserable that I woke up and went out barefoot calling out his name and miracles of miracles he came back! After a few months though, he disappeared again and never came back again. Not really a charming story but the point is that I could relate to Craig and his obsessiveness over finding all his pets. He might have had different reasons too but then he did love them all and it was a lovely thing.
Now this brings me to other characteristics of these guys. Why does Craig think he’s invincible? I don’t really get it. I don’t understand how he can’t be scared at all when people are dying so close to his vicinity; where on the other hand, Lio is totally freaked out about it. Lio’s fear stems from his near death experience I guess, but Craig’s fearlessness doesn’t make sense to me. Was it because he thought it wouldn’t matter if he died because he was so upset about so many things already? What was it?
I think I’m more confused than I was when I started with the review and I don’t have answers to any of my questions aaaand it sucks. I really need a book now that makes me laugh my ass off. Coping mechanism or whatever. 2 stars.
It’s a story about two boys who are screwed up in their own ways and have no one else other than each other and then they are together and happy..but that’s not an issue. My question is: What did the shooting spree have anything to do with it? What had 9/11 to do with it? It could have been a story in perfectly normal circumstances and nothing would have mattered. Was it just something to draw the public in? Or was it something that Lio and Craig could fight over? There were many other incidents that hardly made sense to me; for instance, why did Lio have to get drunk and then ramble infront of Craig? Did it have any significance in their budding relationship? Most of the story felt like incoherent mumbling to me.
Craig is a guy who can’t get over his ex-boyfriend Cody, whose father’s death made him unstable. He still loves him and thinks that it was his fault that he couldn’t fix him. So he gets a lot of pets that he can love and fix as if that would make his hurt over Cody any better. It’s his idea of dealing when in actuality, he isn’t. He breaks down over every other thing and basically chatters like if he doesn’t get the words out they’d strangle him or something. Reading his monologue made me feel like I was listening to a really high fella talk incessantly.
Ew. I hate that word. Like girls have animals in their pants or something. I have no desire to know what girls have in their pants but I do really hope none of it is alive, and I don’t think even newborn kittens in a girl’s pants could make me go down there. This is so gross. Why am I still thinking about this? I hate karate.
^ This is an example of Craig rambling on and on. It was cute at places but then it was just nonsense. I agree with what he just said ^ there and now it has got me wondering why it’s called a pussy. Is it..what I’m thinking it is? If it’s not then I think I just have a sick perverted mind; which is normal, right? Please tell me it’s normal. Ugh! Now my brain is thinking other things I don’t want to be thinking. I hate you for making me think so many things Craig! Damn you!
I need to calm down…
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.
.
.
.
Hm. I’m back. Alright, so Lio…
Lio is a very shy guy who survived cancer when he was really young and his twin didn’t and his mother left his father and he has a million sisters and he loves them all very much. He’s been getting therapy for about seven years and he has many emotions locked up inside him but he opens up to Craig; starts loving him infact, which is sweet and at the same time confusing. I understand why both of them need each other. For Craig it’s because he thinks Lio is some broken kid he has to fix, which is really messed up and for Lio, Craig is the only person he can relate to. This is what confuses me. Why is it Craig? Because he thinks that Craig can fix him? Or is it because he hasn’t ever opened up to anyone before as he has to Craig through IM?
I can’t even pinpoint anything that I exactly like about this story. As I’ve already mentioned, it doesn’t feel like a story that needs to be told. Oh wait! I know what I liked about this story. ANIMALS! There were so many pets! I remember crying myself to sleep when one of my dogs went missing in 5th grade. I was so miserable that I woke up and went out barefoot calling out his name and miracles of miracles he came back! After a few months though, he disappeared again and never came back again. Not really a charming story but the point is that I could relate to Craig and his obsessiveness over finding all his pets. He might have had different reasons too but then he did love them all and it was a lovely thing.
Now this brings me to other characteristics of these guys. Why does Craig think he’s invincible? I don’t really get it. I don’t understand how he can’t be scared at all when people are dying so close to his vicinity; where on the other hand, Lio is totally freaked out about it. Lio’s fear stems from his near death experience I guess, but Craig’s fearlessness doesn’t make sense to me. Was it because he thought it wouldn’t matter if he died because he was so upset about so many things already? What was it?
I think I’m more confused than I was when I started with the review and I don’t have answers to any of my questions aaaand it sucks. I really need a book now that makes me laugh my ass off. Coping mechanism or whatever. 2 stars.