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Jul 07, 2016JCLBeckyC rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Everyone unfairly compares this book to The Fault In Our Stars, which is a good book but formulaic and unbelievable in parts (I'm looking at you, Van Houten), but not nearly as good as Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, which felt less like reading a book and more like entering inside the mind of the funny, awkward, self-critical, charming, completely believable main character, Greg. This book is funny. Cancer is not funny. Young girls dying of cancer is especially not funny. Life is too short and too many people suffer unfairly and there's nothing that those of us who survive can do about it except be real and open and honest about it. And, if you're a funny guy, that includes getting us to laugh. This book is about what happens when a funny guy who has never experienced death up-close faces it fully. That sounds like a major downer, a major suck-fest. But it's not. The only thing that sucks about this book is the way that Greg sucks us in from page one. Highly recommended for teens and adults.