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This is what a teen romance novel should be. Its not the best book by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, but it reminds me of why i love them when they write books together. Rachel Cohn and David Levithan always manage to give us great uncontemporary love stories and in that sense i believe this is their best book. The way we read from both Dash and Lily's point of view gives us just enough info about each character without boring us with just one character Great read, but before you read this try reading their other books "Naomi and Ely's No Kiss list" and "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" these books are great and along with "Dash and Lily's Book of Dares" Rachel Cohn and David Levithan have become two of my favorite Authors
Ok, I'm still not completely in love with Robbins prose style ... that said, he is very capable of simply stating some very profound ideas that keep you thinking long after you've finished his novel. At least that was my experience with jitterbug Perfume, and I'm guessing that a month from now I will occassionally recall parts of this novel. In this novel, the primary question is how does one make love and/or lust stay. Robbins never answers the question directly, but succeeds in making you consider it from different angles and in comparison to your own life. well done -- he's succeeded in making me want read another of his novels.
Truly one of my favorite children's book.
If you read it before hitting the big 1-oh or while dropping acid (hopefully not at the same time) deserves another look.
Caution: very graphically violent. First of all thrillers aren't my thing, but I wanted to read this book because I thought it would have interesting psychological developments. Beginning was fun, there was intrigue towards the end, and then the end itself was a dud. Nevertheless I would not say that the ending is a dud would be a solid enough reason to claim that the book was not so good. It doesn't take up that many pages. The ending used 'flashback' in a very good way, but I didn't like the content but didn't totally dislike it either. The rest of it is fun and much of it is very intriguing. The cultural aspects of what one would imagine as a typical factory worker (the work itself, the diversity of cultural backgrounds, the home life, the poverty) in Japan represented in the book is interesting. All the characters are flawed and have real world problems, and most of the action is scarily realistic. The real world problems are not presented as too lengthy monologues or too lengthy annoying dialogues and confrontations, so that's a BIG plus. It is a fast read and I felt sympathy for the characters, but they were not entirely likable. In fact, I found them selfish. I do like the 'bad girl' and 'alienation' aspects in characters. I appreciate the lack of whineyness and love-dovey that might occur in a book written which has female bonding as a big part of the story. It was fun, kept me hanging, and I will read more stories by Natsuo Kirino.