Post by TreeLover on Jun 28, 2008 18:16:47 GMT -6
At least I think that's what it's called, to tell you the truth I never was good at remembering the book's title. However, it was an amazing book!
It's a story of a normal teenager, his parents just recently broken up, (his dad was caught cheating with his 3rd grade teacher) and he's starting to feel differently about his best friend (her name also escapes me >.<
. It opens up with him getting drunk while his mom's out on her first date after the break up, and he ends up crashing into someone's yard. His punishment is community service, 'volunteering' at the nursing home visiting this older man known as Sol.
It's pretty much a 'coming of age' kind of story, but my god is it hilarious! Jordan Sonnenblick is an amazing author, he writes like it was the 16 year old thinking it, and this causes for some really awesome quotes and just a fun read overall.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time. Yes, I know everybody says that – but I’m serious. As insane as it looks in retrospect, I was fully convinced on that particular Friday evening last September that stealing my mom’s car and storming my dad’s house was a brilliant plan. And not brilliant, as in, “That was a brilliant answer you gave in Spanish today.” I mean brilliant, as in, “Wow, Einstein, when you came up with that relativity thing, and it revolutionized our entire conception of space and time while also leading all of humankind into the nuclear age, that was brilliant!”
The plan had a certain elegant simplicity, too. I would drink one more pint of Dad’s old vodka, grab Mom’s spare car keys, jump into the Dodge, and fire that sucker up. Then I would speed through the deserted, moonlit streets, straight and true as a homing missile, or at least straight and true as a sober person who actually knew how to drive. When I skidded triumphantly into Dad’s driveway, I would leap nimbly from the car, race to the front door, ring the bell with a fury rarely encountered by any bell, anywhere – and catch my father with the no-good homewrecking wench who was once, in a forgotten life we used to have, my third-grade teacher.
Okay, perhaps these plans would theoretically work better if the planner were not already completely intoxicated. But I’d never gotten drunk before – so how was I supposed to know I’d get so smashed so quickly? And hey, if my mom had really wanted to keep me from driving drunk without a license at age sixteen, would she have gone out on a date and left me home with a car, a liquor cabinet, and some keys?
I rest my case."
That's just the first couple of paragraphs of the story, it just gets better with the introduction of the sarcastic, sadistic, old man Sol. And it's quite entertaining to read what happens while he's drunk being brought into the police station.
However, at the end I was a mess, bawling my eyes out.
But that just proves my point of this being an amazing story. It makes me laugh out loud and then turns around making me cry, it's a sweet very fun story that I'll definitely be reading again.
It's a story of a normal teenager, his parents just recently broken up, (his dad was caught cheating with his 3rd grade teacher) and he's starting to feel differently about his best friend (her name also escapes me >.<
. It opens up with him getting drunk while his mom's out on her first date after the break up, and he ends up crashing into someone's yard. His punishment is community service, 'volunteering' at the nursing home visiting this older man known as Sol. It's pretty much a 'coming of age' kind of story, but my god is it hilarious! Jordan Sonnenblick is an amazing author, he writes like it was the 16 year old thinking it, and this causes for some really awesome quotes and just a fun read overall.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time. Yes, I know everybody says that – but I’m serious. As insane as it looks in retrospect, I was fully convinced on that particular Friday evening last September that stealing my mom’s car and storming my dad’s house was a brilliant plan. And not brilliant, as in, “That was a brilliant answer you gave in Spanish today.” I mean brilliant, as in, “Wow, Einstein, when you came up with that relativity thing, and it revolutionized our entire conception of space and time while also leading all of humankind into the nuclear age, that was brilliant!”
The plan had a certain elegant simplicity, too. I would drink one more pint of Dad’s old vodka, grab Mom’s spare car keys, jump into the Dodge, and fire that sucker up. Then I would speed through the deserted, moonlit streets, straight and true as a homing missile, or at least straight and true as a sober person who actually knew how to drive. When I skidded triumphantly into Dad’s driveway, I would leap nimbly from the car, race to the front door, ring the bell with a fury rarely encountered by any bell, anywhere – and catch my father with the no-good homewrecking wench who was once, in a forgotten life we used to have, my third-grade teacher.
Okay, perhaps these plans would theoretically work better if the planner were not already completely intoxicated. But I’d never gotten drunk before – so how was I supposed to know I’d get so smashed so quickly? And hey, if my mom had really wanted to keep me from driving drunk without a license at age sixteen, would she have gone out on a date and left me home with a car, a liquor cabinet, and some keys?
I rest my case."
That's just the first couple of paragraphs of the story, it just gets better with the introduction of the sarcastic, sadistic, old man Sol. And it's quite entertaining to read what happens while he's drunk being brought into the police station.
However, at the end I was a mess, bawling my eyes out.
But that just proves my point of this being an amazing story. It makes me laugh out loud and then turns around making me cry, it's a sweet very fun story that I'll definitely be reading again.