View all 21 comments. Aug 18, Tatiana rated it did not like it Recommended to Tatiana by: Kirkus. Shelves: 6 , romancelandia , printz , starred , dnf , ya , tres-annoying. Her penchant for run-on sentences and pages-long angst-filled paragraphs is hard to appreciate. The dialog is mostly annoying too. It is worth mentioning though, that this book got starred reviews from pretty much every major professional review publication. So I am clearly going against the grain here.
View all 33 comments. Jun 28, Oriana rated it it was amazing Shelves: read First, here's just one elided line—not even the most wonderful line, just a lovely one—out of a million beautiful lines that encapsulates why Daniel Handler is the most wonderful startlingly unique best ever: "You snacked away into the other room, and the rubber band sat in my hand, a loose worm, a lazy snake, a wide-open lasso ready to rodeo something.
Who is more fantastic than Daniel Handler? No one, no one, no one. Holy goodness gracious this book is so good. Another t First, here's just one elided line—not even the most wonderful line, just a lovely one—out of a million beautiful lines that encapsulates why Daniel Handler is the most wonderful startlingly unique best ever: "You snacked away into the other room, and the rubber band sat in my hand, a loose worm, a lazy snake, a wide-open lasso ready to rodeo something.
Another thing this book is is long. And now that I bike instead of subwaying and spend smoke breaks on my phone with the Facebook, it takes me way way longer to read things. So in the spirit of this beautiful brilliant book, which is the story of a collection of objects that together make up a few-month relationship, I will tell you about all the things I stuck between its pages over the month I was lugging it around.
Body Actualized Center is a former chicken slaughterhouse remade into a yoga school and venue for "chill-out" parties. If you think that's neat, you can read an interview with the space's founder on my site here. Because I live in Brooklyn, this is a laughably impossible idea, but I went so far as to answer a few of ads, and Daniela, a kind but firm Russian lady, showed me a couple of apartments that are the size of a postage stamp half a mile from any subway and cost a million dollars or so.
Oh Brooklyn. Old Navy coupon I am way too morally superior to buy sweatshop-made, unfashionable, fall-apart-after-the-first-wash duds from this stupid store I am not proud of this.
I met her at an art salon, and then I left the salon and biked around and met up with my boyfriend and we went for Chinese food, and there was Laura, sitting at the bar. Also, what a neat idea for a business card. It looks pretty rad, I should check them out. Although also a reminder that Queens is a goddamn lot less bicycle-friendly than Brooklyn. She's the niece of one of the writers I work with at my weird day job, which is at a ghostwriting firm.
Dorsey's Kitchen. The site is in Spanish, which I do not speak. I was not so swayed. I will pay this really soon. And there you have it! A selection of detritus from a month of my life.
Also this would be x longer. And I would be able to afford a pair of jeans that are not morally reprehensible. View all 38 comments. Oct 12, Ariel rated it really liked it. I haven't read something I so enjoyed in quite a long while.
I read this book with my friend Jesse. Every day we would set a target and read up until that point, sharing what we thought of that section, gushing or ranting. That experience was so much fun and it definitely added to the reasons why I loved it - it was something I shared with a friend. However, this book didn't need that added loveliness for me to give it five stars. The biggest point of WOO for me is the writing. Daniel Handler Wow. Daniel Handler really has his own style, and he can really work it.
The novel read as a stream of consciousness, as a person thinking and feeling without the filters of editing and proper grammar. Some of the passages were so poetic, so well constructed, that I reread them. I never highlight things, never take notes while reading, but I did with this book. It was so deserving. The plot can also not be forgotten. We are all aware, even before the book has started, that the two main characters will be splitting up. But I found myself searching for hope that maybe they could make it work, searching for loopholes.
Even though I knew exactly where the plot was going, could even guess a bit of the ending, it still had me excited and intrigued. Finally, the realism of this book. In a lot of ways it is instalove, but done ironically.
In a lot of YA novels instalove isn't done on purpose.. In this, however, the instalove was bold and true. It was the reason that they had to break up. Because it's instalove.
It isn't real. The characters too, had so many flaws that you don't often get to see with YA novels. I hated them sometimes, but relished in their flaws. I loved this book. I enjoyed every moment of it. It had it's setbacks of course, there were several times when I was quite confused, not understanding what was going on, misinterpreting.
But I think that might have been a bit on purpose. You can't understand everything. What I do know is that I loved this book. Loved it loved it loved it. View all 3 comments. Shelves: , abittoalotofromance , souwannabeholdencaulfield , disappointing , summer-reads , howaboutno , dontwasteyourtime , excusemewhileiyawn , abandoned , tried-to-read.
I did not finish this book. Nor, do I have any intention of doing so. I don't pretend to be an expert on Lemony Snicket or whoever. I did not read that 'series of unfortunate events' series and frankly, never plan on doing so, either. But I can say, that this author, has-theoretically-disappointed me. It's not that the plot was bad It's just that I didn't like the main characters.
I didn't like how every little thing of every thing someone did had I did not finish this book. I didn't like how every little thing of every thing someone did had to be wry, sarcastic or overly angsty.
I didn't like um Something generic like that. I didn't like the narratror, either which I think is important, don't you? Wasn't her name Miranda or something? I don't know. I can't remember anyone's name. But I suppose that doesn't really matter. Because I did NOT finish this book.
I've had it for what feels like years and it's cost me an arm and leg 4 bucks at the library. And for what? Thirty pages worth of complaining? Thirty pages worth of 'this is why we broke up, bill' or whatever his name is. I just hated it. View all 19 comments. I'm going to try to keep my review brief I did not like this book. At no point in the book was I enjoying the process of reading it. The relationship felt ridiculous and nonsensical, and I spent the entire pages wondering "why did they get together in the first place??
The lead character, Min, was pretentious and unbearable. And every time a character said she was great because she was different, I wanted to throw the book across the room. I hated I'm going to try to keep my review brief I hated the "prose", if that's what you call 2-page paragraphs of metaphorical crap that's nearly impossible to follow.
What I'm saying is that I really didn't like this book at all. We clear? View all 9 comments. Jan 25, Aj the Ravenous Reader rated it liked it Shelves: physically-owned-books. Why We Broke Up happens. This book is kind of written that way. It is about a box of Ed Slaterton treasures Min Green collected during the entire course of their relationship. It is a very cute concept with t 3. It is a very cute concept with the matching illustrations that made the entire thing interesting.
The book is basically one long letter written by Min to Ed and in it she explains how each token inside the box contributed to the reasons why they broke up. Broken and emotional, you could truly feel every emotion of Min through her narrative. She uses appealing imagery and vivid descriptions that will remind you of that time when you were experiencing the worst or perhaps most painful break up.
The long, almost endless run-on sentences which she kept using reflect her raw and honest feelings, her anger at her experience, at Ed and even at herself. The only thing that annoyed me is her out of place cursing. Of course, you can always go for the easy way out and that is to maybe do this?! Once upon a time, I did something that slightly resembles what Min did.
My reason in oblivion Forgot I had opinion I drank your poisoned potion Caught in lifeless motion In my nearly endless slumber Just about as long as forever A drop of antidote from nowhere Awakened I am elsewhere… A loud sigh of relief I exclaimed From sure doom I was saved Vulnerable- I shall be never I have discovered the permanent cure! View all 51 comments. This book will make you fall in love and then break up with you without a second glance.
I loved it. Jan 25, Jon rated it did not like it Recommends it for: People who want to tear their eyes out. My old review was pretty terrible so one of these days I'll rewrite it! View all 20 comments. I felt like the story was going so fast, and I got irritated with Min's voice the story is a letter Min wrote to her ex-boyfriend, some jock guy from her school called Ed.
And Ed? I couldn't even picture him in my head. Seriously, I just saw a blob. I even skimmed to see why they broke up, and it was very annoying. If I actually read the entire book, I'm pretty sure I would have gotten a headache. Now, with the way Min talked This was the main reason I didn't like this book. There were many run-on, never-ending sentences!!
I started thinking, 'AHHH! It also didn't help that the ARC was pretty heavy to hold. Thanks Crystal for letting me borrow it; I wish I had liked it, but unfortunately, I couldn't finish it. View all 28 comments. Shelves: reads. View all 4 comments. Oh wow. What an astonishingly infuriating He treats her like trash and she Ohhhh, AND!! Of course she has a best friend who treats her like gold and is madly in love with her but, does she give him a second thought??
What the fuck kinda lesson is that?? View 1 comment. Feb 13, Fares rated it did not like it. Oh dear God, finally! It's over. Forget half stars guys, goodreads needs to add some sort of negative stars. I'd gladly buy a physical copy of this just so I can burn it. I'm sorry to the author and everyone that worked on this but I so regret reading it, to put it bluntly.
View all 12 comments. Aug 05, Lala BooksandLala rated it it was amazing Shelves: favourites. Holy Numbersign Exclamationmark this was so good! Simple, relatable, honest.
Daniel Handler successfully wrote a YA contemporary that didn't TRY so damn hard - this is simply a girl in high school navigating a relationship and break up. It didn't try to reach some immense philosophical level, or dive into character's backgrounds and try to find some meaningful depth behind their actions, and it didn't have an unrealistic character arc where lives are changed forever in a span of 2 months.
We got Holy Numbersign Exclamationmark this was so good! We got just a peek into Min's life and her relationships and it. Rating: 3. I hated this book with a passion. Somewhere in the middle, this book ceased being about Min and started being about me or my friends or my family.
It started morphing into a deep and provocative look into relationships, the cracks that form even from the beginning, the lies we pretend not to see, and the desperation we have to hold on and regain those blissful moments we had before.
To simply put it, it was remarkable. Min Green, our enigmatic protagonist who is obsessed with old movies, wants to become a director, and is so, so different from Ed Slaterton. Ed Slateron, our swoon-worthy romantic interest who is obsessed with basketball, has a cool older sister, and whose relationship with Min Green is so, so unexpected.
When these two meet at a party, somehow, against all odds, they wind up falling for each other. Why We Broke Up is told from the perspective of Min as she writes Ed a letter, pouring her heart out and analyzing everything that went wrong in their relationship, one object at a time. Essentially, she tells them why they broke up and why their beautiful romance, which defied the very laws of high school hierarchy, was torn apart and ruined, despite its prior perfection.
It reads like a fluid story and I loved how Min would insert a small bit of cryptic bitterness at the end of nearly every chapter, explaining how that event in their relationship slowly led to her breakup with Ed. I loved Min — I mean, can she just be my best friend already?
I loved how her passion for old movies was so prominent, oozing off of every page and making her such a realistic character. We couldn't only have the magic nights buzzing through the wires.
We had to have the days, too, the bright impatient days spoiling everything with their unavoidable schedules, their mandatory times that don't overlap, their loyal friends who don't get along. You know what nights are, right?
Min and Ed only work when they're isolated, when their relationship doesn't have to navigate the actual world. In the light of the world beyond the two of them, these two just don't work. And in the light of day, where Min can see that Ed hasn't been faithful to her, well, these two just don't stand a fighting chance.
In a nutshell, that's why they broke up. And while it's definitely hard for Min, as the book ends, it seems she realizes there just might be better fits for her, romantically speaking—perhaps even in the form of Al. Who does like movies. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. By Daniel Handler. Previous Next. Min realizes at several points in the relationship that she and Ed are completely different.
She even mentions this to Ed a few times while she's writing the letter to Browse all BookRags Study Guides. All rights reserved. Toggle navigation. Sign Up. Sign In. View the Study Pack.
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