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Reader reviewed by the Dizzy

"And I think, Me, too, because here I am on a new path again and sooner or later, one of these paths ought to lead me someplace I actually want to go." (149)

Iggy Corso hasn't exactly lived a great life; born a crack baby with his father stoned, his mother vanished, and not to mention now freshly kicked out of high school. But Iggy doesn't drown himself in that, he has a solution and a plan, to make something of himself. And so he sets out into the world of druggies, dealers, and never-endless gray parties; of riches and denial, of the endless paths of life. Trying to make of it, what he can.

Iggy reminds me much of Holden, from Catcher in the Rye, but less hypocritical and more fleeting. He yearns to save the world, to contribute one good thing to make his life seem more than just meaningless and earn himself a place in something. KL writes well the emotions of a boy searching for a path to follow and the cold hard truth of the world. Your heart aches for Iggy as you hope, yet know how the story in the end will turn. But even as the final pages fall you realize that in the end Iggy is Iggy.

Iggy's personality flies through the pages as a boy magically comes to life in front of you. So detailed and realistic, its truely uncanning. A masterpiece and a book well recommended to show the teenagers of this day and age a life unlike many and boy that's simply just extra-ordinary.