Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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By Jesse Andrews
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Soon to be a major motion picture
It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he’s figured it out. The answer to the basic existential question: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad? His strategy: remain at the periphery at all times. Keep an insanely low profile. Make mediocre films with the one person who is even sort of his friend, Earl.
This plan works for exactly eight hours. Then Greg’s mother forces him to become friends with a girl who has cancer. This brings about the destruction of Greg’s entire life.
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It was a clever take on the theme of mortality through the eyes of an unreliable narrator who cannot acknowledge his true feelings.
I didn't particularly enjoy this book but found the main character Gregg quite funny and relatable, I also enjoyed how it was written in parts where Greggs train of though would lead to chapters describing past scenarios or characters.
