This book has been on my “To Read” list for close to three years. I saw some blog post about how it was amazing, funny, smart, and real. After finally reading it, all I can say is, “Huh?”
I just don’t get it you guys. Maybe it was all the fake band stuff. Or possibly the fact that I do not buy that a “loser” in high school would go from outcast status to secretly getting blowjobs/handjobs from two different reasonably attractive girls. There was a blurb on the back of my book that proclaimed this the Catcher in the Rye for the new generation. What? Tom Henderson is no Holden Caulfield.
I thought the child porn subplot was crazy. And not only that, it was sort of blown off? And I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist, so that whole ordeal was giving me angina.
Maybe My expectations were a little lofty, but King Dork definitely wasn’t my favorite. Give me Cameron or Pudge any day. I think that’s why it took me so long to post this because I wanted to think about it and see how I really felt. Also, I didn’t have time because I’m starting a band. The Wilson Feel-Ups, Leanderthal on bass and Caroline the Cannibal on guitar and fracking. First album: Impulsive (Liar).
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