content: I was, and I absolutely hated "Girl." I am a teenage girl and I consider myself fairly intelligent. When I saw the Amazon reviews and the description of "Girl" by Blake Nelson I was stoked to read the "Catcher in the Rye for the 'Grunge' generation." But it only disappointed me. I thought the writing style was amazingly simple (how did Nelson get it published?), and the main character not a realistic teenage girl, more what a teenage boy would HOPE a teenage girl would be like. Anyone could know from listening to "Loveline" for an evening that for women (unlike for men), sex is more than merely physical...an emotional connection has to be there for a sexual experience to be enjoyable. Andrea Marr's reaction to sex is really a male's opinion (hope?) that women yearn for sex like men do, which I haven't found true. I find it disgusting that people actually think teenage girls are this shallow and this unintelligent, and I just want to let you know that we aren't.