It was amazing. Like Charlie says, since it is the last book I read, it is my favorite.
It was also amazing how much I could relate to Charlie, even in the smallest of ways.
I also liked how Charlie liked to begin his sentences with 'And' and didn't really use big, fancy words to decorate his writing, because I loved his simple sentences.
Most of all, I liked how Charlie wrote 'honestly'. Just events put forth. Right in the readers face for him or her to comprehend. It was simply honest. And it was the best part.
Here's one of the paragraphs at the end:
But it's like when my doctor told me the story of these two brothers whose dad was a bad alcoholic. One brother grew up to be a successful carpenter who never drank. The other brother ended up being a drinker as bad as his dad was. When they asked the first brother why he didn't drink, he said that after he saw what it did to his father, he could never bring himself to even try it. When they asked the other brother, he said that he guessed he learned how to drink on his father's knee. So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them. I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad. Just like what my sister said when I had been in the hospital for a while. She said that she was really worried about going to college, and considering what I was going through, she felt really dumb about it. But I don't know why she would feel dumb. I'd be worried, too. And really, I don't think I have it any better or worse than she does. I don't know. It's just different. Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Like Sam said. Because it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
And my favourite sentence he used in the whole book?
"And that was that."
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