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A review by sparkleypenguin
Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You by Todd Hasak-Lowy
2.0
This book has a lot of potential to be good. It really did. But, in an un-ironic format, I present to you 3 Main Things I Disliked About This Novel
1. The Representation of People.
A. Every single main character in this novel could have been better. Or maybe it's just the fact that Darren sucked as a narrator. But Zoey didn't feel real at all to me. She felt like some vapid, misrepresentation of some girl I had read about before. Nate was just there as some excuse for Darren to escape his problems which, if he actually dealt with them and went to therapy LIKE HIS DAD FREAKING BEGGED HIM TO THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRETY OF THIS ENTIRE NOVEL BUT HE WROTE IT OFF ALMOST EVERY SINGLE TIME BECAUSE THERAPY IS DUMB, ACCORDING TO DARREN, he could have been able to be a mature, young adult who doesn't make dumb and ignorant comments about gay people and other things. Then Nate was just an annoying kid who should have shoved off from the very beginning bc he is such a terrible influence on him. His mom could have been more there for him but work was more important and ugh that's so annoying. His dad was probably the only decent character in this book (and Ray too but he was just some kind of spirit floating in the background that didn't do much). Also, I have no idea still why Darren is a vegetarian. It's like all of the characters of the book just seem to agree on this fact for no reason. Also, if you're a vegetarian, all animal meat is off limits, right? If that is, in fact the case, why is it that Darren says "At least this restaurant that I'm at has a good fish sandwich". That's dumb! There is some more lines like that but like I don't have the strength or the energy to find them.
2. The Lists Themselves.
A. I promise this point won't be as long as the last one but the majority of the lists could have been cut out like the one where it lists how many months had passed btw the last page and the next at certain parts. Also, they weren't lists, I guess, at least, in the conventional sense. They just dragged on and on and on (much like this review) and they didn't really need to.
3. The Point of this story
A. I don't even know what the point of this story was. What the heck did I get out of this book? Some whiny teenager who should have gone to therapy to deal with his parents divorce and his dad being gay throughout the entire length of the novel. Some girl who was broken and dude had to fall in love with her even though he barely knew about her, just the fact that she drew on his arm and she kissed his ear and crap. Yeah. I'm so done with this book. The only good thing I probably got out of it was some song recs which I have put in a playlist and will listen to at some point.
1. The Representation of People.
A. Every single main character in this novel could have been better. Or maybe it's just the fact that Darren sucked as a narrator. But Zoey didn't feel real at all to me. She felt like some vapid, misrepresentation of some girl I had read about before. Nate was just there as some excuse for Darren to escape his problems which, if he actually dealt with them and went to therapy LIKE HIS DAD FREAKING BEGGED HIM TO THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRETY OF THIS ENTIRE NOVEL BUT HE WROTE IT OFF ALMOST EVERY SINGLE TIME BECAUSE THERAPY IS DUMB, ACCORDING TO DARREN, he could have been able to be a mature, young adult who doesn't make dumb and ignorant comments about gay people and other things. Then Nate was just an annoying kid who should have shoved off from the very beginning bc he is such a terrible influence on him. His mom could have been more there for him but work was more important and ugh that's so annoying. His dad was probably the only decent character in this book (and Ray too but he was just some kind of spirit floating in the background that didn't do much). Also, I have no idea still why Darren is a vegetarian. It's like all of the characters of the book just seem to agree on this fact for no reason. Also, if you're a vegetarian, all animal meat is off limits, right? If that is, in fact the case, why is it that Darren says "At least this restaurant that I'm at has a good fish sandwich". That's dumb! There is some more lines like that but like I don't have the strength or the energy to find them.
2. The Lists Themselves.
A. I promise this point won't be as long as the last one but the majority of the lists could have been cut out like the one where it lists how many months had passed btw the last page and the next at certain parts. Also, they weren't lists, I guess, at least, in the conventional sense. They just dragged on and on and on (much like this review) and they didn't really need to.
3. The Point of this story
A. I don't even know what the point of this story was. What the heck did I get out of this book? Some whiny teenager who should have gone to therapy to deal with his parents divorce and his dad being gay throughout the entire length of the novel. Some girl who was broken and dude had to fall in love with her even though he barely knew about her, just the fact that she drew on his arm and she kissed his ear and crap. Yeah. I'm so done with this book. The only good thing I probably got out of it was some song recs which I have put in a playlist and will listen to at some point.