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Title: Ick
Review: I am so sick of writers that have no idea what teenagers are like. Teenagers don't talk like this! Teenagers don't THINK like this! But it's not just the teenagers. There's not a realistic character in this whole book.I know the author means well. Anticonsumerism is something I sympathize highly with. But the book is written in such a watery, preachy way that it's almost unreadable. The whole time I just felt like I was being "appealed" to with an adult's idea of how teenagers supposedly act. The end result just isn't appealing at all. Larry's sermons are banal and unoriginal. I don't see how this could ever happen in real life. There literally millions of anticonsumerist websites out there, and ALL of them are better than Larry's.TGATL is an unrealistic book targeted at pseudo-subversive teens. Don't bother with it unless you're very, very stupid. If you want a good book for teens about consumerist issues that's actually entertaining, check out "Feed" by M.T. Anderson.
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