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Marenda Book Review On the Weirdest Book EVER!


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Books! Books! Books! Love them or hate them, we all know them. Many of us have read a book that we just couldn't stop reading but there are some of us who have read such a bad book we almost want to puke. Some of us read for fun while others read because they were forced to. I, however, was not forced to read this book. The book I have chosen, out of the four I have already read, is called Fly On The Wall by E. Lockhart. At the Manhattan School for Art and Music, where everyone is “different” and everyone is “special,” Gretchen Yee feels ordinary. She’s the kind of girl who sits alone at lunch, drawing pictures of Spider-Man, so she won’t have to talk to anyone; who has a crush on Titus but won’t do anything about it; who has no one to hang out with when her best (and only real) friend Katya is busy. One day, Gretchen wishes that she could be a fly on the wall in the boys’ locker room–just to learn more about guys. What are they really like? What do they really talk about? Are they really mean most of the time? Fly on the wall is the story of how that wish comes true.After you read a book, you are left with either exciting thoughts or boring thoughts. Which makes the question, was the book exciting or boring? Fly on the Wall was more than exciting it kept you on suspense the entire time. This book leaves you wondering what happens next? Fly on the Wall is exciting from the moment you open the cover to the moment you close it. The most exciting part in the book, however, was when she turned in to a fly and was in the lockerroom or the climax of the book. This book kept your heart pounding and pounding until the very end.From the first time you open this book, to the time you close it...you feel like you are apart of the story like you are in the book. The way E. Lockhart wrote her book it makes it seem like its real. Even though we all know that a girl can't turn into a fly, this books makes you believe that such things are possible. It takes you into Gretchen Yee's world, it lets you see things through her own eyes. This book engages you in every possible way.The characters are more than intresting they are life like. The characters in this book seem like ordinary kids. Not like in most books when you hear them saying things like "HOWDY YA"LL!" or " dude lets go chill out there dude". It makes them seem like normal kids. Kids that you can find next door or even in your own neighborhood. I love how this book makes the kid fiqures something any kid now a days could relate to.I would not reccommend this book to a friend or even a worst enemy. I would not reccomend this book to a friend because of the content in which it has. This book, I believe, was never meant for virgin minds. Most of my friends are far from that state but at the same time I have friends who have virgin minds and due to respect for that person I would not reccomend a book that could destroy their virgin mind or disturb them on so many different levels. I would not reccomend this book to an enemy for two ovbius reasons. One, being they either have a virgin mind and/or I am not that mean to the fact where I would disturb a person, and I say disturb because this book is disturbing on so many different levels. Second, would be because usually when you have an enemy you do not talk to that person therefore you would not be able to reccommend such a book to them.In conclusion, this may be a fantastic book due to the way it is put together. But it is also disturbing on so many different levels. I gave my reasoning against why I would not reccomend this book to anyone. I have examined the content in which the book has and also how realastic the characters seem. This is a great book but certaintly not meant for virgin minds, which is usually not what you find in a common high school but still there is always one. All in all, this book was stupedos but yet so.....DISTURBING!