Reading Respone to "Youth in Revolt"

Youth and Revolt is a book by the author C.D Payne about an adolescent boy getting through his adolescent and doing adolescent things...kind of.  He isn't what you would call a "normal" kid.  He does and thinks about things a little differently then other adolescent boys, or at least just me.  As of right now I'm in about the middle beginning of the book.  In this part of the book the character, named Ned, has his first girlfriend whom he met on a vacation with his family.  He had the most amazing time while he was there but now that he has left, he has to try to work through a long distance relationship.  He has to take care of the dog she hates, go to a bad public school, try to get his girlfriend to satisfy his needs, fake his friends suicide, and keep his life together all in one.  You can say Ned has his plateful dealing with everything.

Although this book might seem a bit weird and a bit unorthordox to most, I really really like it.  I can really connect to it.  Although i don't think like Ned, it's all very similar.  Its just a book about a teenage boy doing teenage boy stuff.  Thinking about girls, doing things for girls (in Ned's case taking care of a dumb dog), doing stupid things, getting angry at your parents and your sister, and eating doughnuts.  Lots of doughnuts.

One thing I really like about this book is that it's real.  It doesn't try to get soft around the edges, it doesn't try to make Ned's mind less perverted, and doesn't try to make Ned's mom seem less stupid.  It's real with you.  It gives you things straight with you and that's something hard to come by these days.  People a lot of the time aren't real with you, I know I'm not real all the time.  It's something I feel like should be really appreciated.

All in all I really like this book and can't wait to finish it and find out all that is going to happen.