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Tutto Accade Oggi (2011)

by Jesse Browner(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

8866320137 (ISBN13: 9788866320135)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

e/o

review 1: As far as young-adult novels go, I think this ranks right up there with Perks of Being a Wallflower and Speak. There isn't anything traumatic about the book as there is in those other two, but that doesn't mean the novel doesn't equally capture teenage angst and the sort of intellectual machinations teenagers go about. I particularly liked the ways in which Browner tied teenage judgment of adult decisions/situations into the character's thought process: all teens judge their parents particularly harshly, which perhaps becomes one of the biggest regrets of many adult lives. I gave my copy of this book to my teenage son to read. I hope he likes it as much as I did.
review 2: Well. Where do I begin? I'm giving it three stars because I can't make up my mind. I pick... moreed this up randomly at Book Culture because the summary made it sound super interesting. And it is. Kind of. My opinion went back and forth repeatedly as I read, so here's what I thought overall...When I first started reading I thought "wow, this is great." The language was a step up from most novels you'd typically pick out at random and at 37 pages in I publicly declared "this is going to become one of my favorites." But then I'd find myself rolling my eyes at some of the rambling pretentiousness and thinking "WE GET IT." The author tries WAY too hard to sound like what he thinks a Dalton teenager sounds like…the mentions of iPhones, Facebook, and Twitter are insane. At one point, and for no reason, he has the protagonist, Wes, explain Facebook and how it works to his father. It's almost like the author is saying "look, teens, I GET it." At the same time, the book is written as a stream-of-consciousness as Wes goes through his day following the day when "everything happens." Wes is Dawson Leery (what what Dawson's Creek reference!). He uses big words and philosophically strings together sentences as if he is the only one on earth who matters. I go to school with about a bajillion Dalton alums (and alums from similarly ridiculous Manhattan prep schools) and no one runs around talking like this kid. The problems Wes faces are typical (girls, school, parents) but of course to him they're THE END OF THE WORLD. At first I thought maybe the author understood how typical a teen Wes is and was commenting on that by making Wes so self-obsessed…but then the author spends time making excuses for Wes being a pain in the ass, talking about why his problems really do matter more than other teens'! He's the kind of main character you want to punch in the face and yell I'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO WHINE ABOUT. He does hit on a few things that are maybe…philosophically interesting? But I think the problem is that most of it has been said before by people much more qualified than tho author. My biggest issue was flipping back and forth in my opinion of the writing, saying "this is really smart" and "this is really over the top." It's hard to strike a balance when you're writing a book that's trying to do more than just tell a story and I think that's where this goes wrong. Some are calling it "the next Catcher in the Rye" which I can kind of see due to the rambling of our central teen hero but I wouldn't say there's the same level of cathartic release as you might find in "Catcher"…not for the kid and not for the reader. less

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