content: "Prep" was overlong, and I found the prose to be unoriginal and the tone and setting to be underdeveloped. Lee is an incredibly uninteresting and unlikable narrator. There were repetitions of certain small details that made me feel the book was inattentively edited.Additionally, the time period was unspecific; elements eventually pointed to the 80s, but I don't believe that the phrase "hooking up" was used then to describe sex or making out.I don't get why the NY Times picked this as a notable book. I found it tedious and pedestrian.