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Idiot: A Love Story With Drama, Betrayal and e-mail
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by Colin Neenan
Sales Rank: 1346242
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Paperback: 152 pages
Publisher: Brown Barn Books September 15, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0974648116
ISBN-13: 978-0974648118
Product Dimensions:
8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
Product Review
"an amusing page-turner, with the reader dying to find out how Jim's life could possibly get any worse." -- ym.com, What's Hot: July 20,2004
when the reading's done, we shouldlook at our lives. (We) may be in for some startling revelations too!" -- Bookwire Review, November 5, 2004
Full of passion, regret, and humor, IDIOT! conveys the uncertainties of romance in the lives of youth and their parents. The framework of the story (that this is Jim's unsanitized account of what caused him to end up drunk in a tree, eating his own words-literally, his emails to Zanny-and have his picture plastered on the front of newspapers across the country) adds to its cleverness and the ambiguity of Jim and Zanny's relationship. librarians who can sell the story inside will find a receptive audience with guys and girls alike. -- Melissa Moore -- Jackson, TN
-- National Council of Teachers of English, Winter 2005
His new love might be more interested in his twin brother, and his mom has just run away from home. But all this bad luck creates an amusing page-turner, with the reader dying to find out how Jim's life could possibly get any worse.
-YM Online Magazine
Refreshing, enjoyable, and highly recommended. _Engagingly written novel_For the modern age with unpredictable twists and turns
-Midwest Book Review October 2004
The subtitle that appears on the inside cover of this book is "A love story with drama, betrayal, and e-mail." The drama is literal and figurative. Main character Jim O'Reilly, alias Demetrius from A Midsummer Night's Dream, falls in love with his childhood friend, Suzannah Ursula Manning, a.k.a. Zanny, who plays Demetrius's love interest, Francis Flute. In real life, the drama unfolds as Jim, through his anonymous Kurtz4now@netmail.com e-mail address, professes his love to Zanny, but Zanny thinks that it is Jim's twin brother, Jake, who is sending her messages. Confused yet? Well, so is Jim, who thinks that Zanny is in love with Jake, causing a chain of events that find him in a compromising situation with Jake's girlfriend, Janine. Enter Zanny again (ouch)!
The plot becomes even more convoluted-and here comes the betrayal part-when Jim and Jake's mother suddenly leaves home, leaving Jim angry and confused. After a misleading spy session that makes it appear as if Mom is having an affair with a strange, unnamed man, readers learn that Jim's father is the one having the affair-with Jim's English teacher no less, who always does the costumes and scenery for the plays. There are so many twists and turns in this madcap story that Shakespeare surely would be proud. If it seems clear that the boy probably get the girl in the end, do not be so sure. He does, but which girl is another story."
-Elaine J. O'Quinn, February 2005, VOYA
A wackynovelthat bringssympathy for the roller coaster ride of growing up. Refreshing, enjoyable, and highly recommended. -- Midwest Book Review, October, 2004
Product Description
It mostly started with a school play, when Jim O'Reilly, 16, fell in love with a wannabe high school gossip columnist, sending her torrid love letters (anonymous) by e-mail. Why is he now featured on TV talk shows, the hero of a book, and an willing love object to millions of American girls? A funny, contemporary novel for kids in high school.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This is a very entertaining novel that captures high school angst in a fresh new way. I highly recommend it!
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