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"It's like reading a diary written by a spoilt, annoying, Emo teenager - self indulgent, repetitive and likely to leave you wanting to just slap the narrator while saying 'for God's sake, get over yourself'."
Quite. My son loves this book, he was just doing it for GCSE... the last thing he is is spoilt, disaffected, emo or in any way emotionally disturbed -they may not be who it was written for, but teenagers of all sorts get a lot out of it.
Anyone ever read 'I never promised you a Rose Garden' about another teenager with problems? It haunted me for years, and I'd love to read it again, it must be somewhere Up There with the thousands of others in my collection!
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But the reviewer who said
"It's like reading a diary written by a spoilt, annoying, Emo teenager - self indulgent, repetitive and likely to leave you wanting to just slap the narrator while saying 'for God's sake, get over yourself'."
is way off the mark with the Emo thing.