August 26, 2012
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Week 35: Glee
I guess with a subtitle like “A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater” I shouldn’t have expected more.
I just finished How I Paid for College by Marc Acito. It was fresh, I guess, but it was also a bit boring at the same time. How an author can pull that off is beyond me. It was like all the stereotypes of contemporary fiction rolled in one. Like Catcher in the Rye meets “Glee,” the TV show, plus a bit of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” Throw in some extra sex scenes for good measure. The main character and his friends go on mad-cap adventures, and then in the end it’s wrapped up neatly as a coming of age story, the end.
