But neither I like, yet I give positive reviews for the books, only because I like the authors. The only advantage that I would distribute would be that I ignore that would this book ever published and write any opinion. But that's not the case because I have loved this book.
SBL - The Carson Phillips Journal was published with the corresponding movie. I looked this movie on I-Tunes and the same can only recommend. Nevertheless, the book and the film in two different media and publications, there are new details. The film is a lot more details for the other figures (ie Sheryl), while the book refers to Carson. Therefore, I can recommend the film and the book, because the audience gets new insights and the story gets more depth.
Conclusion: This book is incredibly dry, nasty sarcastic, has more than a dirty joke and still a depth, which makes me sometimes doubt that the author's younger than me. I especially like the Carson is not necessarily a sympathetic character. Carson grew up in a broken home, with a senile mother and a non-present father. His grandmother, the only person with the Carson has a deep emotional connection, lives in a nursing home and suffering from Alzheimer's. He's incredibly ambitious, intelligent and focused to be assumed that he just does not fit in his small, conservative town at Northwestern University. Carson is presented as a character one can understand and where you can feel his anger, resentment and frustration downright. At the same time he is also an arrogant, narcissistic, stress-seeking asshole (Pardon for debate). That makes it interesting for me Carson, because no one is simply good or bad.
To reveal my evil side: I liked it that a character finally allowed to act unethically and must take revenge against his classmates through extortion. Is this the right attitude? No. However, it annoys me that is taught constantly that people should be about and therefore should accept almost humiliation. Of course, if the moral of this book is not that it's okay to blackmail his classmates. But in the fictitious scenario, it was fun and I have followed it with little schadenfreude.
At the end of the book still has depth. Carson has his thoughts on the extortion and apologizes partially. He also asks questions and does not accept the society just because they expected him to do so. He questioned why people are so often stuck in drawers and why many teenagers accept this willingly. He also makes his own mistakes, because he too lives in the future and not in the present. A lesson the Carson learns the hard way. The book ends, despite all the sarcasm and dark humor, on an emotional level. I had to swallow and I've seen the movie before and knew what happened.
Warning: bad words are used regularly. Sex is mentioned several times and shown from an outsider perspective. Dirty jokes are spread throughout the book to find. AKA: for me the perfect book, but the reader should be warned potential.
