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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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This book really pissed me off…for lots of reasons at various times throughout my encounters with it. I will try my best to be nice, but most likely I will not be.
Let’s start with the title, shall we? The dying girl…really? REALLY? One of the hardest parts about watching my father battle cancer was watching his “friends” disappear. He was no longer Al. He was a cancer patient. He was treated like he had the Plague and anyone seen near him was sure to be next. Do you have ANY idea how offensive this title is to me? Probably not. No one desereves to be referred to in such a manner and having watched someone I love be referred to as such makes me feel all sorts of stabby.,.
Now, maybe some of you will nod your heads in agreement while others are putting me in the category of Generation ButtHurt. Either way, I don’t care. I feel very strongly that an individual with a terminal illness should be recognized as a human being and NOT by the nature of their disease.
The next thing to irritate me right off the bat was the letter to the readers in the beginning. Now, I did this on audio so I am not completely sure if it is from the author of the book or the narrator who is being portrayed as the author of the book, but either way it’s pretentious as fuck and shouldn’t have been in there. Don’t ever fucking tell a reader how to read your book.
Now, I was reassured by everyone’s favorite taxidermy-enthusiast, Kelly, that this book was quite funny and that I should continue. I did. And it WAS funny. Parts of it anyway. Any part containing Earl that is. Earl was a fantastic character. He was a tell-it-like-it-is kind of guy but not in the Donald Trump way. He was always there to put our MC in his place. His life and its many difficulties led him to be smarter and much more empathetic than that useless pile of shit, Greg. Earl is the guy that everyone wants to hang out with in real life. He’s Joe Cool and the ONLY redeemable quality of this book.
Greg is the WORST. I have so much hostility toward this MC. He is awful. Horrible. I know, I know…he’s just a teenager. He doesn’t know what he’s doing… or NOT doing. BULL shit. I don’t buy it. He knows he is a fucking sociopath who has no emotions and thinks it is the absolute best way to go through life. Don’t make friends; don’t date anyone, value girls on the size of their breasts…yes. This is a great way to go coasting through life.
Yes, Greg. I hate you SO much I was willing to use a gif of someone I hate even more. See what you’ve made me do?!
The worst part of this book is that our MC learns absolutely nothing. There is no redemption. He just continues to be a heartless, soulless, pretentious little fucktard.
Fuck this book. Writing the review made me realize just how much I hated it. Earl gets a star and RACHEL gets a star. HER FUCKING NAME IS RACHEL.
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bookshelves: audio-books, coming-of-age, gouge-out-my-eyes-with-a-spoon, i-blame-kelly, not-even-in-the-zombie-apocalypse, why-would-ya, ya
May 18, 2016
bookshelves: audio-books, coming-of-age, gouge-out-my-eyes-with-a-spoon, i-blame-kelly, not-even-in-the-zombie-apocalypse, why-would-ya, ya
This book really pissed me off…for lots of reasons at various times throughout my encounters with it. I will try my best to be nice, but most likely I will not be.
Let’s start with the title, shall we? The dying girl…really? REALLY? One of the hardest parts about watching my father battle cancer was watching his “friends” disappear. He was no longer Al. He was a cancer patient. He was treated like he had the Plague and anyone seen near him was sure to be next. Do you have ANY idea how offensive this title is to me? Probably not. No one desereves to be referred to in such a manner and having watched someone I love be referred to as such makes me feel all sorts of stabby.,.
Now, maybe some of you will nod your heads in agreement while others are putting me in the category of Generation ButtHurt. Either way, I don’t care. I feel very strongly that an individual with a terminal illness should be recognized as a human being and NOT by the nature of their disease.
The next thing to irritate me right off the bat was the letter to the readers in the beginning. Now, I did this on audio so I am not completely sure if it is from the author of the book or the narrator who is being portrayed as the author of the book, but either way it’s pretentious as fuck and shouldn’t have been in there. Don’t ever fucking tell a reader how to read your book.
Now, I was reassured by everyone’s favorite taxidermy-enthusiast, Kelly, that this book was quite funny and that I should continue. I did. And it WAS funny. Parts of it anyway. Any part containing Earl that is. Earl was a fantastic character. He was a tell-it-like-it-is kind of guy but not in the Donald Trump way. He was always there to put our MC in his place. His life and its many difficulties led him to be smarter and much more empathetic than that useless pile of shit, Greg. Earl is the guy that everyone wants to hang out with in real life. He’s Joe Cool and the ONLY redeemable quality of this book.
Greg is the WORST. I have so much hostility toward this MC. He is awful. Horrible. I know, I know…he’s just a teenager. He doesn’t know what he’s doing… or NOT doing. BULL shit. I don’t buy it. He knows he is a fucking sociopath who has no emotions and thinks it is the absolute best way to go through life. Don’t make friends; don’t date anyone, value girls on the size of their breasts…yes. This is a great way to go coasting through life.
Yes, Greg. I hate you SO much I was willing to use a gif of someone I hate even more. See what you’ve made me do?!
The worst part of this book is that our MC learns absolutely nothing. There is no redemption. He just continues to be a heartless, soulless, pretentious little fucktard.
Fuck this book. Writing the review made me realize just how much I hated it. Earl gets a star and RACHEL gets a star. HER FUCKING NAME IS RACHEL.
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Reading Progress
May 18, 2016
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Started Reading
May 18, 2016
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May 18, 2016
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3.0%
"I'm already annoyed by the super pretentious tone of the letter from the author. Don't tell me how to read your fucking book, asshole."
May 20, 2016
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42.0%
""You mean Pa Gaines never sat you down and said 'Son, some day you're gonna have to eat some pussy'?"-Earl
"No, but he did teach me how to eat a butthole."- Greg
I literally almost died driving in to work and hearing that. The best conversation I have ever heard."
"No, but he did teach me how to eat a butthole."- Greg
I literally almost died driving in to work and hearing that. The best conversation I have ever heard."
May 31, 2016
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Finished Reading
August 26, 2016
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audio-books
August 26, 2016
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coming-of-age
August 26, 2016
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gouge-out-my-eyes-with-a-spoon
August 26, 2016
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i-blame-kelly
August 26, 2016
– Shelved as:
not-even-in-the-zombie-apocalypse
August 26, 2016
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why-would-ya
August 26, 2016
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ya
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Aug 26, 2016 09:51AM
Forspecial review, Honk!!
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Jeff wrote: "Forspecial review, Honk!!"Thanks, MahFah! <3
As forspecial as the blue plates?
Blue plates? That's one cryptic reference to far, Honk. Splain yerself.
Jeff wrote: "Blue plates? That's one cryptic reference to far, Honk. Splain yerself."It's the ones that Detta Walker like to smash...her aunt's forspecial plates. LOL they were blue. DO you need to re-start the Dark Tower series?? ;)
Detta Walker? Who?*starts running, forgets he's in a basement and crashes into the wall. Stephen King looks on flabbergasted.*
Jeff wrote: "Detta Walker? Who?*starts running, forgets he's in a basement and crashes into the wall. Stephen King looks on flabbergasted.*"
Odetta Holmes. Dettta Walker. Susannah Dean.
Funny review, Honk. Seeing as how you enjoyed the MC so much, might I recommend this lovey little story: Winger.Ha! I knew you secretly loved Taylor. Just admit that this cover is amazing, and we can move on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx_0L...
“The title of this book was so offensive I decided to read the whole book so I could make sure everyone knows how offended I am!”Generation Butthurt is right.
Yes. I give books chances even when I don’t like the title. Or the cover. It’s called being a reader. And as I said in my review- watching someone I loved no longer be seen as himself but as the “cancer patient” it is pretty offensive. I think people are more than their diagnosis. But please feel free to lump me into the generation butt hurt category. Hopefully you never have to experience anything in your life that changes your narrow minded perspective.
