39 - Will Grayson, will grayson, by John Green and David Levithan
WHY I PICKED IT: Written by John Green
ELAPSED TIME: <1 day
RATING: Meh
This is the story of two guys with the same name. Both are in high school, and are roughly the same age, and both live in the Greater Chicago Area... but otherwise they're quite different. Green's character has good friends and comes from a family of achievers. Levithan's character is somewhat self loathing, tolerates people, and has only a Mom (who is pretty great, but irritates her teenaged son.
This is the weakest of John Green's books... and it's not at all his fault. Rather, the chapter-by-chapter interruptions to read Levithan's will grayson was distracting and not really all that enjoyable.
Although an interesting intellectual exercise, to experience two writers taking the perspective of different characters in an interwoven story; ultimately, this book failed because an intellectual exercise should not a novel make.
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