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I like the actual bookcover, but grownup books don't normally have illustrated covers, which is how you know it's YA.
Lack of impulse control, attachment issues: sounds like your garden-variety autism-spectrum disorder. Asperger's, maybe? Nick's like my niece, except he's charming and she's not dyslexic. I keep telling people she's possessed.
Heh. I have pretty severe Aspergers syndrome, and at several points while reading TDL I had to go and check in the mirror to make sure my blue eyes hadn't just been a hallucination for the last 21 years ;)
I'm about halfway through the book, and I am having trouble getting past the fact that Nick just seems so angry and pissed off most of the time, it's kind of hard to like him as a main protagonist......I could almost see Alan being a better main character, if only because he seems to be a bit more three-dimensional.
My hope is that either as I get through the rest of the book, his character will be a bit less "all pissed off, all of the time", and bit more well-rounded......and if not in this book, hopefully in later ones. He may be hot and all, but if he continues to be such a jerk (albiet there have been brief flashes where he actually cracks a smile, but not much), it's going to make it hard for me to continue reading.
Nick's Little Problemsgt_majoretteJune 15 2009, 18:45:11 UTC
Trust me, there's a reason he's the way he is, and it's pretty spectacular. He was starting to get on my nerves too, but I'm at that age where all teenagers piss me off on general principles. I don't really like any of them, but I love the story!
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I like the actual bookcover, but grownup books don't normally have illustrated covers, which is how you know it's YA.
Lack of impulse control, attachment issues: sounds like your garden-variety autism-spectrum disorder. Asperger's, maybe? Nick's like my niece, except he's charming and she's not dyslexic. I keep telling people she's possessed.
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My hope is that either as I get through the rest of the book, his character will be a bit less "all pissed off, all of the time", and bit more well-rounded......and if not in this book, hopefully in later ones. He may be hot and all, but if he continues to be such a jerk (albiet there have been brief flashes where he actually cracks a smile, but not much), it's going to make it hard for me to continue reading.
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