Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Synopsis:
Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics.

Until Greg’s mother forces him to rekindle his childhood friendship with Rachel.

Rachel has been diagnosed with leukemia—-cue extreme adolescent awkwardness—-but a parental mandate has been issued and must be obeyed. When Rachel stops treatment, Greg and Earl decide the thing to do is to make a film for her, which turns into the Worst Film Ever Made and becomes a turning point in each of their lives.

And all at once Greg must abandon invisibility and stand in the spotlight.

So first off I read this book because of reviews I heard about it. Mainly  the review that Raleen did on her youtube channel padfootandprongs07 look her up really cool and she did a really good review on this book probably better then mine will be.
So the synopsis kind of makes this book sound like it would be heartfelt and maybe have a little love story in it. Which is completely wrong. This book is nothing like that! 
So this book is basically suppose to be written by our main character Greg as he tells us his story of what happens in this time of his life. While he is being forced to hang out with his old friend Rachel.
 It is a great young adult, contemporary, humor, realistic fiction book. I think everyone should read this book while they have a chance just cause it is such an amazing book.
It's fast to read. A lot of it ends up being in script form so it goes pretty fast which i though was cool. Though I wouldn't have minded if it was all kind of long it was a great book that I just couldn't put down.
Also something else I loved is that Greg is more or less talking to the reader, which is kinda funny cause he says some funny things. Like how he feels and what he thinks. He is also very weird which you will find out almost right away.
Mostly I just loved this book and think you should go read it. Then tell me what you think cause I would love to hear.

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