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Why We Broke Up
by Daniel Handler
Interesting, very interesting. You know, I had forgotten that the author, Ben Hadler was also the man I called Lemony Snicket when I was younger. It wasn't until the last page of my e-book, with the bios in the back, that I remembered this, but it instantly made sense. Because, the entire way through "Why We Broke Up," I was irritated with the outlandish, rambling writing style, which, ironically is reminiscent of his outlandish style in A Series Of Unfortunate Events, that I ADORED. It was a little tiring, however, here. I think it worked in the way of the book being a letter of a girl writing to a boy she once loved who hurt her. I mean, we've all been there (don't deny it! Most of us destroyed those letters, though, instead of sending them), and you do feel a little frantic, wanting to get everything down on the page, whether it makes sense or not, whether it's grammatically correct or not. I think that the author (I can't think of him as anything but Snicket!) really captured this in "Min's" writing. But it got exhausting some times. And the dialogue... It just killed me. I'm sorry. It was just... All over the place. It bugged me so bad.
Story wise, it's interesting enough. As a reader, my opinion of Ed and his relationship with Min changed throughout the book, which felt fresh. I wasn't being told who to like and who to root for, I was able to take the facts as they were presented and swing from, "Gee, this Min girl sounds like a total stalker... What kind of 'relationship' WAS this?" to "Okay, he's actually into her, but he's a prick" to "Dude, he's so dedicated!" to "Where the heck did THAT come from?! Min, you've got to be keeping things from me, because he did not just pull that son-of-a-douche line out of no where. You've been secreting away more of his doucheness, because the Ed that I know wasn't THAT awful."
I was rooting for Al all along anyway. And ANYONE that uses the word "gay" and other homophobic terms as an insult is not worth your time. You could have saved Min a lot of pain if you'd given her that foresight, Lemony. Yeah, yeah, I know, "show, don't tell," and all that, but really. Poor Min.
Story wise, it's interesting enough. As a reader, my opinion of Ed and his relationship with Min changed throughout the book, which felt fresh. I wasn't being told who to like and who to root for, I was able to take the facts as they were presented and swing from, "Gee, this Min girl sounds like a total stalker... What kind of 'relationship' WAS this?" to "Okay, he's actually into her, but he's a prick" to "Dude, he's so dedicated!" to "Where the heck did THAT come from?! Min, you've got to be keeping things from me, because he did not just pull that son-of-a-douche line out of no where. You've been secreting away more of his doucheness, because the Ed that I know wasn't THAT awful."
I was rooting for Al all along anyway. And ANYONE that uses the word "gay" and other homophobic terms as an insult is not worth your time. You could have saved Min a lot of pain if you'd given her that foresight, Lemony. Yeah, yeah, I know, "show, don't tell," and all that, but really. Poor Min.