Hey YA readers?

[balsamandash]

So they have Will Grayson, Will Grayson at work and I am debating picking it up. Anyone who's read it wanna throw me a quick review of it?

(I am mostly hesitating because I read The Fault in Our Stars and I wasn't really into it. At all. But I am super into David Levithan. Which is the main reason I'm debating getting it.)

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[rootsofthestories]

SO I know nothing of this book other than there's a straight boy and a gay(?) one who are friends. And due to your icon, I am imagining the AU for Natasha and Pepper.

Just thought you should know.

[balsamandash]

XD This makes me smile, not gonna lie.

(Things I know about WGWG:
* It is about two boys with the same name who become friends.
* I do in fact think one is straight, one is gay. Might just be queer in some other way.
* Pretty sure one author writes one boy and one writes the other?
* 80% sure one boy is depressed or has serious issues with something.
* I think at least parts of the book are told through in-story writing: journal, emails/IMs, or something.

This is basially all I remember, I read the summary for it a while ago. But David Levithan man. David Levithan. Relatedly, Boy Meets Boy is $5 on Kindle and includes an Infinite Darlene short story so I am probably getting that too. >>)

[rootsofthestories]

And I continue to have a desire to want this AU even more.

Anyway, that's about all I knew too. Less than that but you covered everything I knew so. shrug Also, do the thing. It makes you happy and you can enjoy it whenever.

I have a bunch of him on my kindle, actually, and mean to get to reading it. I may try and make this a Thing if writing keeps up.

[balsamandash]

I probably am, I'm just waiting til my day off so 1) I can charge my kindle and 2) if I get caught up reading it I can do that. Cause it's been years and that book has my heart still. It is my happy place.

I need more of his work in general. I really do love his writing and there are SO MANY I haven't read.

[rootsofthestories]

nodnod Yeah, this is probably a wise choice.

[bookblather]

It's a good book but I'm not 100% sure how I feel about the ending, and bizarrely enough (because I feel the same way as you do about John Green vs. David Levithan) I actually liked John Green's chapters more? IDEK. It's not a bad book but the depression is REALLY intense so be aware.

[balsamandash]

Huh. In that case, I might acquire it but hold off on reading it. Haven't been in the best brainspaces lately and I probably shouldn't tempt fate.

Thank you for the info <333

[killing_rose]

I really, really did not like it. I like David Levithan but not John Green; for some reason I just flatly did not like *either* Will Grayson. When they weren't reading like cardboard to me, they were reading as "oh look, that cis white guy that I wouldn't like in real life either".