curtis sittenfeld's prep
yay! my crappy-book-reading streak is over! and now i am amazed that i never read this book before. i think i'd heard somewhere it was about a prep school, and i was all, why would i want to read some book some dude wrote about a prep school, like that's never been done before. it took me a while to figure out that sittenfeld is actually a woman (i mean, come on, you can't blame me--who names a girl "curtis"?). anyway, this is about a young girl who goes to boarding school on scholarship, but it's actually REALLY good, full of teenage angst identity crisis, only REALLY GOOD, not the usual cliched drek you might expect from a description like that.
also good? the cartoon movie over the hedge. i mean, nowhere near as good as this book, but entertaining, and with a soundtrack by ben folds.
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i loved prep. LOVED it. even the parts everyone else thought were slow. this is why i was so disappointed by a) curtis sittenfeld's bitchiness and b) her second book.
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