Me and Earl and the dying girl

  Me and Earl and the Dying  Girl By Jesse Andrews.

Summary from the  back of the book:

Me: My  name is Greg Gaines. I am seventeen. I am the one who wrote tis book. My physical appearace is  unsatisfactory, and there  is probably  a fungus eating my  brain. I’m not  eve sure I’m human

Earl:  Earl Jackson is the only person who is even sort of my  friend.We make mediocre  films together. Werner Herzog is our biggest influence.  Earl is generally filled with violent rage.

Dying girl:Duri my senior  year, my mom forced  me to become friends with a girl who had cancer. This brought about the  destruction of my entire  life.

 Greg Gaines  is  a really great protagonist. He’s  funny  and smart  but sometimes he’s a jerk.  The great thing is that he knows he’s a jerk sometimes and  says  really insentive  things and he calls himself  on it.

Earl is black and  he’s  a    stereotypical  black, which did annoy  me at some points,  like when he used the n word, or it was hard to understand what he was saying. At other times  he talked   normally which I preferred more.

 We really don’t get to know  much about Rachel, the girl with cancer expect for the fact that she likes  pillows and Hugh Jackson. That’s kind of the whole point, that Greg  really only  hung out with her  because she had cancer and    when  Greg was with Rachel, they talked about himself. I loved how honest Greg was and he said  a  bunch of times, that if Rachel  didn’t have cancer, he would have never become friends with her. Greg  really doesn’t like hanging out with her and it feels like more of a duty, and he feels obligated to make Rachel  laugh.  It is kind of   a jerky   thing to say and Greg knows that, he calls  himself a horrible human  being multiple  times. He feels horrible thinking about it but he can’t help it.

 The thing I loved the  most about this story, was  that it wasn’t  a typical cancer book. I find that cancer books,  are usually really deep and  the character learns  something through the experience of having cancer or knowing someone who has cancer, or   the  character with cancer  falls in love. Me and Earl and the Dying girl was nothing like that, Greg didn’t learn  anything from the experience  and he didn’t become a better  person or anything like that. This book was  more of a funny  book  that just happened to have a girl with cancer in it.

 I really  liked the  writing  style, I loved how some of it was in script format and  other parts was just normal writing. I  really liked Greg’s voice and I flew  through this book really quickly..

 I have seen some people compare  this book to The Fault in Our   Stars, and I really don’t see the resseblances.  Asides from the fact that   they’re both  cancer books, there is no other  similliarities.  So if  you have  read The Fault In our Stars and didn’t enjoy it, I  suggest   you read this book, there’s no pretentious  characters or love at first sight.

 So yeah overall really enjoyed it and gave it a 4 out  of 5  stars on Goodreads.