I know this will sound wrong, but whenever I wear my funeral suit, go to the train station, and pretend I have a job in the city, it always makes me think of the Nazi trains that took the World War II Jews to the death camps. He watches the people on the train, with their suits and unhappy expressions, who don’t talk to anyone around them. Once in a while, he ditches school and spends his morning on the subway. Unfortunately he looks around at the adults he knows, and he doesn’t think so. Leonard is a kid who wants desperately to believe that life will get better. This book is clearly YA – and yet I think every adult should probably read it. I’ve said about some books it doesn’t really matter whether it was written to be Young Adult (YA) or adult. After all, it’s hard to like a guy who opens a story saying he’s going to kill someone.Īs I read I kept thinking, there’s no way I can review this book. Like that one, Quick has created a character with a unique voice, one you may not want to like. Quick is the author of several books for young adults, and he also wrote The Silver Linings Playbook. Then I laugh my ass off looking at it on the miniscreen, because modern art is such bullshit. I take a photo of my place setting with my iPhone, thinking it could be both evidence and modern art. But if you look very closely just above the handle you can see the tiny stamped swastika and the eagle perched on top, which is real as hell. It’s like some weird steampunk utensil anachronism. The P-38 WWII Nazi handgun looks comical lying on the breakfast table next to a bowl of oatmeal. He has a few gifts to give to his friends and then he’s outta there. It’s about Leonard Peacock, a high school senior, who decides on his eighteenth birthday that he’s going to kill a student and then himself. If you’re in the last group, this book will resonate. There are the people who loved high school, there’s the people who could deal with it without being completely traumatized, and then there’s the rest of us. It’s never a good idea to categorize people, but for this review I’m going to anyway.
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