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It was quite different than I thought it would be... Reminds me of The Goldfinch and The Bell Jar. Perhaps a little The Outsiders, too...
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I had heard that this was an amazing, can't miss, gotta read book. So i checked it out of the library. And i tried to like it, i really did. But all the main character does is brood and swear. That's it. I tried to slog my way through this. This was completely boring, and i am so glad i did not buy it and waste my money. I only got about 40 pages into it, and the only thing that kept me from throwing this across the room was the fact that it was a library book and therefore not mine.
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