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It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

Tyrael_10, July 3, 2008

This was a great book, i have never been as interested in any book as i am of this one. Its about a normal teenager named Craig Gilner who wants to succeed in life so he tries hard to get into this Executive Pre-Professional High School. But this leads to some problems which Craig refers to as "tentacles". He starts noticing that while he is getting 93's in his classes others were getting 100's and they were all more advanced in the classes they took, plus they were in clubs. This made him feel dumb and depressed. On top of all of this his best friend Aaron gets with a girl named Nia, which Craig really likes. Soon all of this pressure got to him and he decided to kill himself one night by jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge. Instead he calls the suicide hot line which instructs him to go to the hospital. While in Argenon Hospital he meets other ppl who have similar problems. He meets a transexual sex addict, a girl named Noelle who scarred her on face with scissors, and other depressed people. Craig eventually finds what he calls an "anchor". His "anchor" is his art or "brain maps" as he calls them. Craig felt safe at the hospital but hes knows its a fake environment and he knew he would have to face the real world eventually. He gets Noelles number to keep in touch with her when he gets out. In five days his parents come for him and he feels, while walking home, that the real "shift" had occurred in his brain.

I feel this book really connects with the teenagers of today with all we have to face and it shows them how one teenager learned to deal with it all and that suicide was no solution.

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