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Now, I don't claim to
know great literature. I'll read anything that looks remotely interesting
and isn't written by John Grisham. A friend recommended this book
to me in a fit of inspiration. The author's vaguely French sounding
name put me off at first, but after receiving the book as a gift,
I thought I'd give it a try. Getting used to the narrator's teenage,
Texan voice took a little bit of work, but I soon fell into step.
He dropped the f bomb a lot and used some Southern vernacular, but
otherwise he was your prototypical teenager. A school shooting has
thrown his town into turmoil and his best friend is the shooter. The
book goes on to skewer the media's handling of the tragedy as our
narrator is sucked into the investigation, and eventually named as
a co-conspirator. The book rolled along with its cast of strange Texas
characters, and the author does a nice job of balancing the protagonist's
teen -I could give a shit" attitude with his sorrow for his dead friends.
The plot was pretty entertaining, and I sort of got the post-modern
commentary thing, but it ultimately fell flat. Of course after talking
to the friend who originally recommended this thing, I came to understand
that she didn't really like it that much after all. Oh well.
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