Maybe I'm wrong to judge a book by its first 10 pages but no way can I continue to read a 350 page book when the narrator sounds this unrealistic and stupid. She also has the annoying habit of ending her paragraphs with either 'True? True.' or simply 'Truth'.Īnd that's all from just the first 10 pages! Does anyone say 'word' anymore? Even the hipsters don't say it ironically anymore!

'I'm sure there are people who would let us crash at their houses, because the town of Childress is full of good-hearted dudes and dudettes. 'all freaky teenagers keep it real when we can' Momma Mary and me are, like, five-by-five I'm a holy teenager of God, sucka!' 'I'm a pretty good Catholic I'm still the big V. Matthew Quick is a 40 year-old man trying to mimic the voice of a teen girl, around 15 years old I think. Within the first few pages of this novel I regretted buying it.

This is a review of the first 10 pages of this novel - is that unfair? Yup! Is that stopping me from writing this review? Nope! Hot on the heels of the excellent 'Silver Linings Playbook' I jumped straight into Matthew Quick's next book, 'Sorta Like a Rock Star' which is a Young Adult novel aimed at teens and is narrated in the first person by a teenage girl called Amber. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.

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