This book looked so cute when I bought it last Friday that it jumped all the way to the front of the reading pile and I finished it Sunday morning.
I like it. I really liked it. I flew through it while reading. It didn't seem like it was going to end well, but it did more or less.
At first I thought the kid was a little slow mentally. He seemed to write more like a 13 year old than a 15/16 year old. It was almost like he hadn't really lived until he started his freshman year of high school. Everything seemed to be so new to him.
The writer seemed to me to capture what it was like to listen to music as a teenager. I think that is what spoke to me the most in this book. Music was everything to me when I was 15 and 16. It made memories and it made me feel infinite too. I don't think it works that way for everyone, but he sure as hell captured it for me.
It seemed a little unbelievable to me that so many crappy teenage things could happen to one kid, but it was all squeezed in there. The only salvation this guy had was that his parents seemed fairly normal and genuinely cared for him as did his English teacher. If only every kid could be so lucky. Usually coming of age books talk crap about both parents and teachers, but in this one they were the most caring people.
Overall a good quick read. I would recommend it and I might even read it again.
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