Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

by Jesse Andrews

[readingwithwrin]

“There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit you, and then when it does, that's when you feel like shit.”



I wish this story had been told from Earl's point of view instead of being from Greg's. While I know this would have changed the whole story because Earl didn't have much to do with Rachel, but when he did he really wanted to help her and wasn't just doing it because he had to. Having said that though I do feel like Greg's story was very realistic and was also very believable. Because of that though at times it made him an unlikeable character a majority of the time.

He was very honest though and said he did a lot of things wrong and he wasn't a very good friend. I will give him credit for, but it didn't make up for the number of times I just wanted him to wake up and really see what was happening to Rachel and that just trying to make her laugh wasn't going to make her better.

I wish I had liked this book because it was a really good idea. I just never saw what everyone else saw in it.



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