Will Grayson, Will Grayson

I like this more than I thought I was going to. The first 100-150 pages were iffy, but the rest of the book made up for it.

And that's all I really have to say, wow. XD

"it's like, you know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? wait, that sounds f***ed up."

This quote is almost all you need to know of this book. It's ridiculous. It's hilarious. It made me laugh out loud many, many times with how zany the characters are. It also contains tons of foul language. Like, an inordinate amount of swearing. This is the kind of book you get censored from a friend.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson alternates between two narrators named Will Grayson. The first Will (capitalized Will) has two rules: don't care too much, and shut up. He will adore a girl and flirt with her, but he will not kiss her or ask her out because, oh wait, he doesn't actually like her. That's against the rules. will #2, who doesn't use capitals, is clinically depressed and gay. He is perfectly okay with being gay, he just doesn't feel like letting anyone know. Anyone, that is, except for his online boyfriend Isaac. He's never heard Isaac's voice but has definitely been talking to him long enough to know that he is really a teenage boy.
The Wills run into each other by a crazy coincidence one night. Both of them become caught up with First Will's [quite a bit]larger-than-life and immensely gay best friend Tiny Cooper and his magnum opus- a musical about how gay he is. This book really spares no stereotypes, no truths, no gayness. Somehow there's enough openly gay guys in Tiny's high school for him to fall in love with a new one at least once a week. The whole idea of being a homosexual teen is treated humorously, sensitively, and mockingly all at once. The book sort of pokes fun at those who would be okay with being teased, and also respects the frustration of those who don't really feel like coming out of the closet yet. It ends with everyone loving each other as Just Friends, except for the one straight couple. First Will finally gets over his idiotic rules and they get together.

ALSO
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL IS A REAL BAND
HOLLAND, 1945 IS AN ACTUAL SONG YOU CAN LISTEN TO
IT'S VERY WEIRD

Message of the book: You can't usually pick your friends, you can't always pick your nose, but sometimes you have to pick your friend's nose. Also, triple-check the birthdate on your fake ID.

Loved how funny this book is, stars knocked down for the profuseness of obscene language. Up to you to make your own choice.

this book is not as good as i expected it to be but still... it is funny and cute. if it turned into a movie it'd probably be better than the book, i guess.

Definiría este libro como la carcajada inicial de un momento de felicidad.

Un libro maravilloso en especial el tema de la depresión, John y David en verdad saben como enganchar con la lectura.

I loved this book. As a John Green fan, it is so nice to have a book with a happy ending. All of his books have hopeful endings, but not usually happy ones. The contrast between characters and how they tied together really made the story and I could relate to them so much for entirely different reasons. Their outlooks were unique and the Shrodingers Cat references have a special place in my heart!

I just couldn't get into this book for some reason. It seems like a lot of other people like it enough so maybe I'll give it another shot some day.

3,5 stars

This was entertaining. I certainly could not put the book down exactly as I predicted to happen. It was funny. It was cute. It was right, and it had touched me on many serious emotional levels that I am sort of ashamed to admit. I didn't like the way it was written much, though, and Will Grayson number two's obvious lack of usage of capital letters and proper punctuation made me wince...repeatedly.
The problem was that (1) I apparently misunderstood the plot when I read the summary so I kind of ended up with something completely different, and (2) I had too much hopes up.
It was good however, good enough for a book written by two people and who, therefore, have two different perspectives and envisionments. It was cute and funny, too. I even cried. (I apparently cry a lot over books recently).
However, this book has been written for today and the generation of today, and therefore cannot be classified as a literary work. I am not expecting it to be written in the 18th century England style of writing “and as the 11 o'clock bell began to toll, I was overwhelmed with a feeling of felicity! Who could have thought I would meet a guy possessing the same name as I do in this shabby old porn shop? What a mighty splendid coincidence!” But at least a Harry Potter level of literature. This is made for modern people who barely read and not as a decent work of literature.

I actually really enjoyed this, and I'm not sure if this is a good thing but I can see a few of the characters in myself and my friends. There were very little parts where I just wanted to get it over with, which usually happens to a lot of the books I read. 4.5 stars.

Three stars is Not that I didn't like the book. It made me think about many things. Self-knowledge. Insight into others' personalities. Some people's complete lack of self knowledge. High school. How my experience was much different. Lack of detail in my memories. Remembering how vulnerable and open about myself I was with people online that may have not been who I thought they were. The “gayness” of this book...it did distract me. I don't understand it. I never will. I don't hate, I just don't agree with the practice. Can't wholeheartedly recommend this one to my circles.

This is a book I wasn't expecting to like. The authors are obviously very talented writers, this much is obvious from reading it. The plot is nothing that spectacular in my opinion. Still, I read the entire thing in one day. The book I read before this took over a week. Throughout the majority of the book I wanted to rate it 4/5, which I did end up rating it... but at the end I was contemplating rating it 3/5 just because of the ending. I mean don't get me wrong the book was still quite enjoyable, and my rating system is purely subjective. If I was rating it based purely on writing talent they'd probably get 4 or 5 stars out of 5.

I'd actually forgotten it was written by two authors when I started it, and then I got to chapter two and was thoroughly confused. For those who don't know: all the odd number chapters are written by Green (aka the Will who is friends with Tiny) and the even number ones by Levithan. Personally I think I preferred the parts written by John Green. (This was also the first book I've read by either author)

I think overall the book started good, the middle was bordering on great, and then I'm not entirely sure what happened to the end but I continued to read at the same pace that I'd read the rest, maybe in some kind of hope that it would get back to how it was. Also: my God was that a cheesy ending. Also also: I don't understand the purpose of all the different Will Graysons at the end.

I'm going to keep this short because I really have nothing to say but. I. Loved. This. Book!

The reason why I gave it 4/5 stars is because Tiny annoyed the crap out of me. And, if you are reading this, and wondering which Will Grayson I enjoyed the most, it was David Levithan's.

This review was first published on my blog at http://knowitnotsomuch.blogspot.com

When John Green & David Levithan decided to collaborate on a book together they decided to split up the work as evenly as possible. Green wrote the odd numbered chapters, Levithan the even. Levithan chose the first names of the characters and Green chose the surnames. It seemed to work out quite well.

What I loved about this book was despite how over-the-top things started to get there was an air of reality to the whole thing. Neither author writes their parents to be annoying, controlling or hated parents the way a lot of ya books do. Despite Will Grayson #2's depression and overall hatred towards everything his mother is the one person he truly loves and she is a fully fleshed out character. She is compassionate and wise and normal. Will Grayson #1's parents are the same way. Normal. And I liked that.

The writing is spectacular, of course. The story jumps back and forth between each Will Grayson and you are able to see the evolution of both characters as the story progresses.

Where WG#1 is insecure and teenaged angsty in an almost stereotypical way WG#2 is medicated and gothy with a sharp, witty mind. He is sarcastic and self-deprecating, but probably the one character who seems to struggle less with his emotions than others.

This was a good read. Not as good as Paper Towns. While the characters are similar, Paper Towns just really had me devouring that book.

This was fabulous. I actually really, really loved this. I adored the writing style, and the story was cute as hell. I could identify with both Will Graysons and omg it was such a fun read!!! I love this!!

I probably would've given this five stars but I really couldn't get over how both Wills described Tiny. He's large, you can say that once, you don't have to keep making issue of it. It bothered me quite a bit really...

Really good.

It was a fun read overall. I was a little dubious about reading a John Green novel assuming that he was at least partially overhyped due to his YouTube followers, but the idea of running into your ???name doppelganger??? trumped my hesitation. I was surprised at how much I liked it; the characters were believable and the plot was interesting.

This is the story of two Will Graysons.

The first, and all the following odd chapters, are John Green's Grayson. He's a bit shy, and a bit cynical, and lives his life by two rules: 1. don't care and 2. shut up. I refer to him as Capital Will, because unlike will grayson, he knows when to use the shift key. But even with his restricting motto, Capital Will can be fun, lovable, and quite hilarious. I'm not going to lie, I sort of developed a fictional crush.

The second, and all the even chapters, are David Levithan's Grayson. Other will grayson suffers from chronic depression, has very few friends, if you could even call them that, and is a closet homosexual. I have such an attraction towards the self loathing, tortured characters, so it's no surprised that I found myself very drawn to his chapters. I absolutely loved his dark humor and sarcasm. The only draw back with him was that sometimes I found his “h8 lyfe” attitude was a little too cliche.

I know I said that this was the story of two Will Graysons, and it is, but it's also the story of Capital Will's best friend Tiny. “Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large.” Tiny reminded me my in-real-life somewhat large, and very gay friend. While he is bubbly, passionate, and charming, he can also be extremely self absorbed and obnoxious. I found him annoying at times, but for the most part I loved him because I knew deep down he's a nice person who's just struggling with finding himself.

Whether is was luck, or fate, or destiny, or just plain coincidence, Will Grayson and will grayson's lives intersect one evening in a porn shop in Chicago. Chapter by chapter we see how each author's casts lives are slowing changing.

This book was just simply made of awesome. It was so funny that I actually laughed out loud several, which I rarely do while reading. I loved all the pop culture references (Rancid, Dead Milkmen, Anderson Cooper.) The book got a little bit cheesy and unrealistic towards the end, but I was so consumed in the pages that I didn't even care. Other than the last chapter or so, the book is so honest and touching that it should be a staple in every teen's book shelf.

Do not let the title of this book fool you. Will Grayson's name(s) may be on the cover twice, but this book is actually about Tiny Cooper. Tiny Cooper insinuates his way into everyone's lives and thus, though the book is told in two separate Will Grayson voices, Tiny Cooper is the star of both stories.I'm pretty into John Green right now. I didn't realize how much I had enjoyed [b:An Abundance of Katherines 49750 An Abundance of Katherines John Green http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1309200918s/49750.jpg 48658] until I wasn't reading it anymore. I didn't even know this book was by John Green until I took it home from the library, but as soon as I noticed it was the same guy who wrote AAoK, my attraction to the book made sense. From what I've read, Green has approximately one leading man character that he changes just enough to justify giving him a different name in each book. If you like the character, though, (and I do) then you're set.But this is not about John Green, this is about Will Grayson, Will Grayson. In what is shaping up to be a pretty rotten night for Will Grayson, he suddenly encounters a completely different boy named Will Grayson and his life is changed. But like I said, this book does not belong to the Will Graysons, but rather to their flamboyantly gay counterpart, Tiny Cooper. Larger than life, Tiny is in the middle of writing, producing, acting in, directing, designing, etc. his own musical, Tiny Dancer. The Will Graysons sort of rotate in and around the production of the show providing narration for the reader.Overall, I enjoyed this book and I think mature teens (upperclassmen in high school) would enjoy it too.

I was really impressed by how well these two authors wrote together. I think they really balanced each other out. I was a littttle annoyed by all-lowercase emo will grayson, but perhaps that is because I'm a few years out of my teens. And, confession, I haven't read anything else by David Levithan but he's ON MY LIST now. And John Green retains his place on my YA lit crush list.

I love both authors, but I kept waiting for this book to get better. I enjoyed the new perspectives on male friendship and who can't help but love Tiny Cooper, but the 2 Will Graysons, I didn't love so much.

Really liked this one. It's not perfect, but it's foulmouthed and funny and definitely an entertaining read. (Um, for sensitive readers, I am not kidding about foulmouthed. But if you're a sensitive reader, why are you reading John Green and David Levithan anyway?)

Not my favorite of either author's books, but I looooved it all the same! It took a while to really get going, but once it did, it was wonderful! Also, it was nice to see some big people featured in Young Adult literature, in a way that isn't mocking, or degrading.