Review: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
This book has gotten a lot of hype on Booktube, and it has recently been made into a movie. That should mean that it is a good book…But I really didn’t like it. It is written partly as an “ordinary” book and partly as a film manuscript. I feel like the manuscript thing mainly happened in the beginning, but it did continue sporadically throughout the book. And this annoyed me! This changing of genre really frustrated me. Just pick a method and stay with it! The narrator of the story is a teenage boy, Greg, who tries his hardest to be friendly with everbody and friends with no one. He has one friend though, Earl, who is his film-making partner. They make remakes of relatively unknown films they find in Greg’s father’s collection. I guess the manuscript parts of the book reflects this interest in films and film-making. Greg’s narration really annoyed me, because he was constantly so self-deprecating, telling the reader that this was a bad book, and he didn’t know w...