Summary: Will moves out of the house on account of not getting along with his mother. This leads to meeting some new people, and it sort of leads to a new job where he meets a girl. ...I can understand why they didn't bother putting a summary on the back of the book: no one wanted to write one and/or it's a large challenge trying to write one without saying anything vital to the plot that one thinks the reader ought to discover for him/herself.
Thoughts:I wasn't sure what to expect, but it certainly wasn't this. I only picked up this book because it had the word "hat" in the title and the first paragraph or two didn't look too bad (there was no summary for me to judge it on). It's kinda like Catcher in the Rye only not nearly so lousy (I'm probably only making the comparison because my brother is reading Catcher in the Ryefor summer reading (and complaining about how bad it is), but there are some definate similarities. The lots of talk about sex, for example. And the against-the-norm protagonist). But no matter what happened, I couldn't put it down because I wanted to find out what happened to the characters and whether they lived happily ever after (I don't think that question was really answered, but the author made me think it was). I'm not sure I'd call it a good book, but it certainly wasn't a bad book. I guess it exists outside of the realm of good/bad. It wasn't the kind of book that makes me extraodinarily happy and wanting to talk about how great the book was, but maybe I'm a better person for having read it. I guess it's mostly just a book with a point to it.
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