Title: If I could give this book less than 1 star, I would.
Product review: I saw an advertisement for this book on MTV, and it looked like a good book, so I bought it. I have never been more disappointed. The prose is trite and longwinded, the plot is almost nonexistent, and the characters are one-sided at best. It saddens me that this book has become so popular while other -- better -- high school novels are barely noticed. I'd never before regretted buying a book before this one. The most irritating thing, I think, was the self-congratulatory way that Charlie views his own writing. I felt like the author was trying to tell us he was talented, when, in reality, what he should have been doing, was showing us. The whole book was just very disappointing.
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