hey, tiny, want to play football? hey, tiny, you ever lose your dick down there? hey, tiny, you’re going to join the basketball team whether you like it or not. what really gets to me – what really bothers me – is that it’s all people see. but i’m not so much of an idiot to think that everybody else loves it. “do you think that there’s any minute in any day when i’m not aware of how big i am? do you think there’s a single minute that goes by when i’m not thinking about how other people see me? even though i have no control whatsoever over that? don’t get me wrong – i love my body. It also didn’t hurt that it was easy to identify with Tiny: I thoroughly appreciated Levithan’s frank and honest inclusion of a teenager diagnosed with a mental disorder and a single mother. The way Levithan wrote about will grayson and his journey and eventual meeting of Will Grayson and Tiny was incredibly skilled and touching. “a fuck cure is like the adult version of santa claus.” (66)īut don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t all lightness and humor. And then when Levithan conquered the idea of needing to get laid to solve one’s problems I almost lost it on the T.

I nearly spit my drink out when Green began to referring to a character as “Possibly Gay Jane.” In context it was just perfect. Where the two books differ is where Two Boys Kissing has a seriousness and weight about it, the weight of this book comes through its humor, seriously. The juxtaposition of the two styles and stories was perfectly balanced and the final scene had me in tears.Īs with Levithan’s Two Boys Kissing I really appreciated the idea of teenagers beginning to comprehend something so much bigger than themselves. according to Wikipedia, they split the book evenly and it worked perfectly. It was a quick and hilarious read, even if I didn’t like the lack of capitalization in half the book which is funny as that’s the portion by Levithan. I can’t remember whose blog I saw this on, but I knew I needed to read it when I read the synopsis and I finally got a copy from my local library. As for John Green, the only thing I know about him is that he wrote The Fault In Our Stars which until I finished this novel I’ve had no desire to even look into. Seriously, I’ve read two books by him (with a third on my shelf) and I’ve seriously enjoyed both and it doesn’t hurt I pronounce his name Leviathan no matter how many times I read it. I’m not sure how David Levithan went so far under my radar for so long.

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