Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

For the past few months, I've been hearing nonstop reviews for this book and the movie and so finally I said screw it and bought the book.

I was expecting this fantastically funny book, but I didn't find it. I had just heard too many great things about this book and I raised my expectations just a little too much.

List of things I just didn't like about this book: the humor thrown into the book, the formatting (there were parts where I loved it, but most of the time I felt like it was a cheesy/cheap way of getting out of things), the unrealistic “friendships”, and more

Don't get me wrong, there were things I loved about this book. Enough to give it a 3 star rating. Perhaps 3.5 stars.

However, 53% of the way into this book, I set it down and did something I never like to do. I went and watched the movie in hopes that it would make me more attached the the characters and the plotline. And oh my god that movie. Everything I hated about the book was transformed into something amazing in the film. The friendships and the characters and just everything just felt so real to me. And it reached a level of quirky I felt like the book just missed. That movie was fantastic, perhaps even a new favorite.