DNF at 13% - these lists are driving me crazy and why is the kid a little homophobic. I wanted a book, not a grocery list.

Esperaba más de este libro, creo que tenía una idea muy buena pero que no fue bien ejecutada. Siento que cambiaba tanto de tema que no sabría decir bien de que se trata, lo más rescatable de este libro es la forma en la que estaba escrito, la cual me pareció muy original y te mantenía enganchado.

1. This book is written entirely in lists!
2. Yes, lists!
3. It's much like reading a book written in poetry. You get the story, but not really in a directly narrative way.
4. Many of the lists are funny.
5. Some of the lists are sad.
6. A few of the lists were both funny and sad.
7. I found the ending largely unsatisfying, and that is really the only reason that I took stars away from this fun book.
8. No stars were lost due to the format (LISTS!) of this book.
9. Number 8 surprised me because I have not really enjoyed books written entirely in poetry before and thought that the entirely in lists format might become bothersome by the end. It didn't.
10. This is the last point on this list.

I thought I would like this more since I'm a list maker, but it kinda fell flat for me. And it definitely didn't need the 600+ pages.

A lot of people's reviews are annoyed with Darren for being whiny and with Zoe for "not being like the other girls," but they're kids. They're teenagers who act like teenagers. Teenagers are annoying and try to be different because they're trying to discover who they are and trying to be independent. If you don't like that, don't read teen books.

LOVED THIS BOOK!!! yes it had its set backs but all in all great book for how its written! I will be doing a full blog on my book blog and YouTube channel! so check them out! mediageeksunite.blogspot.com. and YouTube.com/user/kwells7788

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MY RATING

I had extremely high expectations before diving into this book. I had heard that it was told in list format and I was like:

But then while reading I was like:

As you can see, it wasn't as great as I had previously thought. This book was still witty and original but there came a point where everything just dragged on. This book took me a LONG time to finish; try a month. And that was with taking breaks to read other books.

This whole book surrounds Darren. He's your typical under-rated, anxious, still-trying-to-find-himself teenage boy. I gotta say; beginning of the book, I was hooked on his voice, his narration and his story. His reaction with his father's coming out was purely honest (and somewhat, homophobic) but his own character growth in coming to terms with this fact was brilliant. It was honest, realistic and it perfectly captured the shock and acceptance of something so dramatic.

What lacked throughout this big-ass novel was just excitement in general. Around quarter the way in, things slowed down and dramatic events kind of dissipated. Darren's story just became a novel of complaints in list format. Nothing really exciting happened except for his own thoughts, complaints and daydreams. This became boring to read about. I'm not saying that only big, dramatic, sword-fight-like events hook me but come on, this book just had to move along.

Honestly, there isn't a whole lot to say about this novel except its obvious originality and lack of excitement. The whole book only really revolved around Darren's acceptance of his gay father and his yearning (love?) for Zoey.
So yeah. All in all, original if not LONG read.

Not a page turner at all. It's 646 pages but many of the pages don't have that much text. I came to like the main character but the ending left me unsatisfied, well the whole book did.

I'm really bummed I didn't like this one but honestly, the list thing just felt way too gimmicky. I wanted to read an actual story, not a more complicated, less fluent version of a story told through lists. I think there's a good story here; I just really disliked the delivery.

Even though the plot of Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You is not the most exciting thing in the universe, I still liked the reading experience I got out of it.
The idea of telling the story through lists worked really well and the author always put some interesting twists on it to convey different aspects of emotions and the characters' perception.
In general, it is an enjoyable, not too deep read, but definitely worth giving a try.

i didn't even get half way before i stopped reading this .the list idea was cool but i couldn't continue to read it