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Summary: Best. Book. Ever.
Review: Honestly. I started reading this book on the website, before it was an actual published piece of art. I laughed. I cried. I searched for my own Bad Teen Novel, but realized that my ending was even more abrupt, because I never got past Chapter 7.
Ariano [better known as Wing Chun] is my hero. Sure she knew absolutely nothing about sex, kidnapping, shoplifting, sex, death, or sex....but it's worth it. I mean, Vitamins. That's all I have to say.
Oh, wait....oblong area rug bag. There we go. If you don't understand, you have to read the book, and become informed about all the perils of smoking, studying, and sitting in your Vaguely Gay brother's lap....you know, like your average high school student. [Trust me, I am one. I shoplift Shirts (notice the capital S) and get kidnapped all the time.]
Seriously. This is the best teen novel ever. Ever.
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Summary: VITAMINS!
Review: I absolutely LOVED this book. The naivete of 13-year-old Tara Ariano brought me back to my early teen years. This book made me laugh out loud. Numerous times. I recommend it to anyone who grew up in the '80s or ever wrote their own 'Bad Teen Novel.' All the better if you fall into both categories, as I do.
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Summary: Boys, take your vitamins!
Review: I am so excited that Bad Teen Novel is available for purchase! I can no longer wait for the installments on [website], I must have it now, in my hot little hands. I'm getting one for my sister too! This delightful novel delves deep into the mind of "teenage girl". Relive your horrible taste, ignorance and lame priorities. Not to mention utter obsession with sex!!!
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Summary: At least the title is honest
Review: I think that the title of the book implies that the writer thinks she's funny for being *brave* enough to foist her poorly written teen fiction on the world as an adult. But it's just bad. If you want to read bad fiction, surf the net for free. Plus the price of this book is far too inflated for a paperback trash novel. What book did the rest of these glowing reviewers read?
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Summary: Lives up to its title!
Review: I zipped through this in one sitting, during which I laughed, I cried--of course, I only cried because I was laughing so hard. Who knew a novel centered around rape, kidnapping, death and theft could be such a lot of fun? The author's comments really add a lot, too.
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Summary: Smug and tiresome
Review: If cringe-inducing teen prose is what you're in the mood for, I suggest pulling your old diaries out of storage. Tara Ariano's bad teen writing and present-day asides are no more interesting, clever or funny than yours. A pointless vanity piece that offers no insight or relevance within its understandably self-published pages.
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Summary: Mediocre blog writing
Review: It's hard to tell if Untitled is bad intentionally or not, but it is. The book is not enjoyable in any way. It reads like a bad ICQ chat, without the emoticons to liven the mood. The experience is like eating yogurt without a cherry or spoon -- it's just bland and boring. Whoever let this woman write a book should be permanently banned from the publishing industry for all time.
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Summary: Horrible Beyond Belief
Review: Tara Ariano is one of the reasons that free speech is sometimes a bad idea. We should all be advocates of free speech.....for people that are worthy of our attention. Tara's work makes me hate her personally. That's sad.....for Tara......because she is worthless and deserves no credit.
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Summary: Bring on the snark!
Review: The author introduces her work with the sentence, "This book is not good."Word. In fact, this book is so terrible, it does a 360 and becomes terribly good, at least for those with a memory of the '80s and a sense of humor. It loses a 5th star only because there is so much potential in the epilogue and no prospect for a sequel. Tara Ariano wrote this book in 1987 when she was 13. At the time, she took it very seriously. This is half the fun. Today, she is brave enough to present it for human consumption, along with priceless asides from her present-day self. Bad Teen Novel attacks such serious issues as rape, kidnapping, and the death of a loved one, and does so in hilariously inept fashion. Buy this book and journey back to the days when you would lie, cheat, and steal for an Esprit shirt. Discover the sinister side of vitamins, the perils of fernicide, and the consequences of smoking. And have a box of tissues handy. If you're not crying with laughter by chapter 10, you have no soul.
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Summary: Best. BTN. Ever.
Review: The main thing to understand is that this isn't a serious book. It was written by this girl in middle school, and now fifteen-some years later, she's publishing it. The story is unrealistic, the characters unbelievable, but it's all kind of a joke. If you ever wrote stories as a kid, if you ever read your friends stories as a kid, you need to get this book. The way life is seen, through the eyes of 13-year-old Tara, is absolutely hysterical. You and your friends will gain hours of enjoyment from this fine peice of middle-school literature.
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