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The Fracking King
A striking debut novel about boarding school, hardcore Scrabble, and fracking—a new kind of environmental novel by an important voice in the debate about fracking in America.
When the tap water at the Hale Boarding School for Boys bursts into flames, people blame fracking. Life at Hale has always been fraught—the swim test consists of being thrown into the pool with wrists and ankles tied, and a boy can be expelled if he and a girl keep fewer than “three feet on the floor.” But the sight of combustible drinking water and the possibility that fracking is making Hale kids sick turn one student into an unlikely hero in the fight to stop the controversial drilling practice.
Winston Crwth, a Scrabble prodigy whose baffling last name rhymes with “truth,” knows what it’s like to be “fractured,” having grown up with his father in Philadelphia and his mother in California. On Winston’s comic journey to the Pennsylvania State Scrabble Championship, where he hopes to win an audience with beauty-queen-turned-governor Linda King LaRue, he matches wits with Thomasina Wodtke-Weir, the headmaster’s prematurely gray daughter and the most popular (read: only) girl at school; the state poet laureate, whose verse consists of copying out dictionary entries and restroom graffiti; and David Dark, son of the CEO of Dark Oil & Gas, the source of Winston’s scholarship money.
The Fracking King is a fantastically inventive debut about rowing crew, using all your tiles, and trying to save the world.
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First published July 1, 2014
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July 13, 2014
I am honest when I say that I am a bit torn with this book review. I have seen other reviews that weren't so pleasant and I don't think that this book was horrible at all...I have read bad books and they didn't keep my interest in the least, unlike this one.
Basically this book is about a teenager, Winston Crwth (rhymes with truth), who is attending a boarding school on a scholarship provided to him by a gas company that is responsible for local hydraulic fracturing also known as "fracking". Luckily I knew what fracking was, otherwise, I would think that it could be a bit confusing as it isn't entirely explained in this book. Maybe that is why I didn't understand the very low ratings and reviews. I am sure that this book could be a bit confusing without some prior knowledge of fracking and its consequences on someone's health when the chemicals released from fracking mix in with the local water supply.
In some ways, Winston reminded me a little of Holden Caufield from "The Catcher in the Rye" but I am not entirely sure why. Maybe it was the whole coming-of-age and trying to fit in although he wasn't cocky like Caufield and definitely wasn't sure of himself.
This story was great in how it was able to grab my interest and hold it until the end. I will admit that at times during the end I didn't know really what direction this story was headed toward or the message that it was conveying. Was it about fracking, anti-fracking, or about a kid trying to find his voice? I don't know and I can see how that can be frustrating for readers. Although in the end I am still not sure where the book was heading or its seemingly arbitrary message (although I am pretty sure it isn't meant to appear arbitrary), and I didn't find the other character's in the book to be very developed, I found it interesting enough to really not care. I felt mainly like I was learning about Winston and following him through his journey of ups and downs.
Winston is consumed with Scrabble and has been playing it since he was about 4-years-old. He sees everything in terms of tiles and scrabble boards. He cannot even read an article without first viewing it as he would a Scrabble board. I found this important in Winston's development in the story but it did become a bit redundant to me in various parts of the story and this was my personal hangup but it was minor really.
I would recommend this book if only to be curious of various opinions and to help me piece it together, but if you do and don't know much about fracking, then I would highly recommend polishing up on this term. I actually would recommend getting to understand this term regardless of whether you choose to read this book or not!
Basically this book is about a teenager, Winston Crwth (rhymes with truth), who is attending a boarding school on a scholarship provided to him by a gas company that is responsible for local hydraulic fracturing also known as "fracking". Luckily I knew what fracking was, otherwise, I would think that it could be a bit confusing as it isn't entirely explained in this book. Maybe that is why I didn't understand the very low ratings and reviews. I am sure that this book could be a bit confusing without some prior knowledge of fracking and its consequences on someone's health when the chemicals released from fracking mix in with the local water supply.
In some ways, Winston reminded me a little of Holden Caufield from "The Catcher in the Rye" but I am not entirely sure why. Maybe it was the whole coming-of-age and trying to fit in although he wasn't cocky like Caufield and definitely wasn't sure of himself.
This story was great in how it was able to grab my interest and hold it until the end. I will admit that at times during the end I didn't know really what direction this story was headed toward or the message that it was conveying. Was it about fracking, anti-fracking, or about a kid trying to find his voice? I don't know and I can see how that can be frustrating for readers. Although in the end I am still not sure where the book was heading or its seemingly arbitrary message (although I am pretty sure it isn't meant to appear arbitrary), and I didn't find the other character's in the book to be very developed, I found it interesting enough to really not care. I felt mainly like I was learning about Winston and following him through his journey of ups and downs.
Winston is consumed with Scrabble and has been playing it since he was about 4-years-old. He sees everything in terms of tiles and scrabble boards. He cannot even read an article without first viewing it as he would a Scrabble board. I found this important in Winston's development in the story but it did become a bit redundant to me in various parts of the story and this was my personal hangup but it was minor really.
I would recommend this book if only to be curious of various opinions and to help me piece it together, but if you do and don't know much about fracking, then I would highly recommend polishing up on this term. I actually would recommend getting to understand this term regardless of whether you choose to read this book or not!
July 6, 2014
Scrabble and fracking. An esoteric pairing to form the basis of a novel, and one that did not work for me at all. Another reviewer used the word 'underdeveloped' and in my opinion, that is the perfect word to describe the plot and characterization found here. Sorry, this was a complete miss for me, but will give a extra star for the Scrabble portions. Other than that, it was just reading words.
This was a Kindle First selection.
This was a Kindle First selection.
July 7, 2014
Terrible. Completely disjointed. I turned each page hoping to figure out what I had missed and only ended up more confused. Was this about fracking? Scrabble? A young boy trying to find his place in the world? Was the author aiming for satire? Who knows. It was a miss all over. I know what fracking is and still felt the book didn't meet any of its possible plots.
July 14, 2014
This started strong and I was pulled in and engaged. About a third of the way in, it started getting rocky but could have been saved by a strong ending. By the end, it felt as though I was reading a completely different book by a completely different author. Entire threads of plot and character felt missing and pieces felt as though they were tossed in just to either move something along or provide a comment for something later, but often these didn't materialize into anything. For the last third of the book, I had no idea what was happening and often felt as though I'd walked into a heavy conversation most of the way through - and I could not recover.
Edit to add: I understand (and understood before reading this book) fracking and Scrabble. That knowledge did not make this book any less fractured or underdeveloped or jumpy.
Edit to add: I understand (and understood before reading this book) fracking and Scrabble. That knowledge did not make this book any less fractured or underdeveloped or jumpy.
June 18, 2014
I loved The Fracking King. However, I must caveat that by saying that I am a Scrabble fanatic, I love bizarrely funny, bold satire, and I am a died-in the wool environmentalist who knew a lot about fracking and its devastating environmental effects before I read the book. I think you need a sort of warped sense of humor to truly enjoy this book. If you are unable to suspend disbelief and just go with the flow of this unusal story, this book will not appeal to you.
The two parallel stories, one of Winston Crwth, the Scrabble savant/misfit and the discovery of the serious fracking that is going on in Pennsylvania might sound ludicrous, but they ring very true. Win is a very believable character, sent to several private schools with the best intentions of his father, but none of these schools are as advertised. The Hale Academy, which is the school he attends in the book, is the last of the three and undoubtedly the most bizarre. An all-boys school, with one girl for whom an exception is made, makes its students attend classes six days a week, with each teacher more "unusual" than the next. Win is handicapped by his Scrabble addiction - having played since he was about four years old, and, winning several competitions, he is almost unable to read or write a proper English sentence because his mind is so used to reading words horizontally or vertically, but not in sentence form. The quest to uncover the mercenary fracking villains, Dark Oil and Gas, is both hysterical and sadly serious. This is a wild, rollicking tale that this middle aged woman enjoyed immensely. If I liked it, I cannot imagine a middle school reader who would not be enchanted by it.
I won this book from NetGalley in exchange for a review.
The two parallel stories, one of Winston Crwth, the Scrabble savant/misfit and the discovery of the serious fracking that is going on in Pennsylvania might sound ludicrous, but they ring very true. Win is a very believable character, sent to several private schools with the best intentions of his father, but none of these schools are as advertised. The Hale Academy, which is the school he attends in the book, is the last of the three and undoubtedly the most bizarre. An all-boys school, with one girl for whom an exception is made, makes its students attend classes six days a week, with each teacher more "unusual" than the next. Win is handicapped by his Scrabble addiction - having played since he was about four years old, and, winning several competitions, he is almost unable to read or write a proper English sentence because his mind is so used to reading words horizontally or vertically, but not in sentence form. The quest to uncover the mercenary fracking villains, Dark Oil and Gas, is both hysterical and sadly serious. This is a wild, rollicking tale that this middle aged woman enjoyed immensely. If I liked it, I cannot imagine a middle school reader who would not be enchanted by it.
I won this book from NetGalley in exchange for a review.
March 14, 2015
I had no idea what fracking was before moving to South Dakota. It turns out North Dakota is a fracking state and once I learned what fracking was I was understandably concerned.
Here is the quick overview from my understanding. Fracking is removing natural gas from the earth. Frackers dig a really deep hole, pump water and other fracking fluids in to said hole and miraculously natural gas comes out. The problem is this contaminated water can leach in to underground waterways and then make the water in your house flammable. Then fracking companies have the audacity to tell you it isn’t dangerous. Well, now that that lecture is over, The Fracking King is set at the intersection of fracking, Scrabble and a boys boarding school.
Winston Crwth (it rhymes with truth) is a competitive scrabble player who just got a prestigious Dark Oil & Gas Scholarship to attend Hale boarding school in rural Pennsylvania. At the boarding school Winston makes friends, plays scrabble, chats with the states poet laureate, and plots to get a meeting with Pennsylvania governor Linda King LaRue to talk about the fact that Hale kids are getting sick and the water in his room caught on fire.
I liked this novel. But I have a soft spot for novels that make little sense and then wrap up in impressive ways. The problem with The Fracking King was that things never really made a lot of sense and then the book ended without the satisfying wrapped up feeling. With the short length of this book there was plenty of space for the author to expand on ideas and wrap things up more thoroughly. So, while I liked it, mostly because I was interested in the subject matter, I didn’t love it.
Overall, The Fracking King was about two things I’m really interested in, Scrabble and fracking but the disjointed storyline and the lackluster ending made this only an okay read for me rather then something I could thoroughly enjoy.
Here is the quick overview from my understanding. Fracking is removing natural gas from the earth. Frackers dig a really deep hole, pump water and other fracking fluids in to said hole and miraculously natural gas comes out. The problem is this contaminated water can leach in to underground waterways and then make the water in your house flammable. Then fracking companies have the audacity to tell you it isn’t dangerous. Well, now that that lecture is over, The Fracking King is set at the intersection of fracking, Scrabble and a boys boarding school.
Winston Crwth (it rhymes with truth) is a competitive scrabble player who just got a prestigious Dark Oil & Gas Scholarship to attend Hale boarding school in rural Pennsylvania. At the boarding school Winston makes friends, plays scrabble, chats with the states poet laureate, and plots to get a meeting with Pennsylvania governor Linda King LaRue to talk about the fact that Hale kids are getting sick and the water in his room caught on fire.
I liked this novel. But I have a soft spot for novels that make little sense and then wrap up in impressive ways. The problem with The Fracking King was that things never really made a lot of sense and then the book ended without the satisfying wrapped up feeling. With the short length of this book there was plenty of space for the author to expand on ideas and wrap things up more thoroughly. So, while I liked it, mostly because I was interested in the subject matter, I didn’t love it.
Overall, The Fracking King was about two things I’m really interested in, Scrabble and fracking but the disjointed storyline and the lackluster ending made this only an okay read for me rather then something I could thoroughly enjoy.
April 1, 2014
With Fracking mentioned so often where I currently live in North Carolina, the timing seemed right for this ARC, thanks to Netgalley. I will never look at Scrabble the same either, particularly after the suicide of one student mentioned in the book. This is a story about a Scrabble prodigy living in a boarding school who is on a quest to win the scrabble tournament so he can meet the governor and save Pennsylvania from the horrors of fracking. It isn't just an Environmentalist story, it is also about a young man finding his voice and strength. Right from the start we see staff overly alert and sensitive to any threat of another suicide, and from the perspective of teens you note that adults are always probing in the wrong place yet when the danger is right under their nose, they are blind to it.
Wisnton Crwth, our would be hero, artfully manages to make this serious story funny, and full of painfully awkward moments. Anyone curious about fracking will come away with a clear understanding of why people are against it, without necessarily feeling like the novel bullied them into forming an opinion. Certainly, any novel with water that catches fire and makes people sick is going to be engaging. This novel is freshly unique, and I look forward to more from Browning.
Wisnton Crwth, our would be hero, artfully manages to make this serious story funny, and full of painfully awkward moments. Anyone curious about fracking will come away with a clear understanding of why people are against it, without necessarily feeling like the novel bullied them into forming an opinion. Certainly, any novel with water that catches fire and makes people sick is going to be engaging. This novel is freshly unique, and I look forward to more from Browning.
June 7, 2014
I really wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. I'm a huge nerd and I love Scrabble, and I'm also from PA, so I understand the whole 'fracking'(which is, of course, underlined by the little red line of spell-check) controversy.
After the first few chapters, I thought maybe Winston was Philly's answer to Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I was really excited for that, but it was a pretty short-lived hope. My debate at the end of the book was if I should give it 2 or 3 stars. There were things that were repeated throughout that were detailed just enough to make it noticeable, but my ultimate vote was based on what I found to be a disappointing ending. It fell flat for me.
After the first few chapters, I thought maybe Winston was Philly's answer to Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I was really excited for that, but it was a pretty short-lived hope. My debate at the end of the book was if I should give it 2 or 3 stars. There were things that were repeated throughout that were detailed just enough to make it noticeable, but my ultimate vote was based on what I found to be a disappointing ending. It fell flat for me.
June 21, 2014
This was such a bad book. I finished it just to see how much worse it could get.
June 15, 2014
I was reeled in by the description but ultimately very disappointed by The Fracking King. Scrabble championships and a boarding school setting were what piqued my interest. Also, I live not too far from the Endless Mountains region of PA, just ten minutes over the border in the southern tier of NYS, where fracking is hotly debated. The premise of this novel sounded fantastic, but I thought the author tried too hard to be clever and quirky, and I did not like the results.
The writing at times could be disjointed. At one point there is discussion of this swim test that seems as though it is supposed to take place some time in the future, and a second later it has already taken place and yet he's only just arrived and school either isn't started yet or has just started. But, with the awe that is attributed by the characters to this lame test, one would think maybe that experience would be described at least a little, like a paragraph, or even a sentence at least. But no, it's just casually mentioned that he had already done it. And if that's not lame enough, it's brought up again later on (like we're supposed to give a shit at that point.) So, so, lame.
It wasn't just the swim test -- there were other times through the story that I felt like something was skipped over. Maybe during the editing something was left in while other references to the same thing were left out, leading to a bit of confusion.
The characters -- how I hated the characters. And trust me, I didn't love to hate them, I just hated them. Really, I can't think of a single one I liked. They were just depressing. I didn't want to root for any of them. I didn't understand the point of some of their actions and plans. I think the author tried too hard to be clever, but it wasn't clever and it was a painful failure.
I kept reading, hoping it would get better (I wanted to like it so much!) But it didn't. At least it was a quick read. I hated the ending, but celebrated that I finished it.
The writing at times could be disjointed. At one point there is discussion of this swim test that seems as though it is supposed to take place some time in the future, and a second later it has already taken place and yet he's only just arrived and school either isn't started yet or has just started. But, with the awe that is attributed by the characters to this lame test, one would think maybe that experience would be described at least a little, like a paragraph, or even a sentence at least. But no, it's just casually mentioned that he had already done it. And if that's not lame enough, it's brought up again later on (like we're supposed to give a shit at that point.) So, so, lame.
It wasn't just the swim test -- there were other times through the story that I felt like something was skipped over. Maybe during the editing something was left in while other references to the same thing were left out, leading to a bit of confusion.
The characters -- how I hated the characters. And trust me, I didn't love to hate them, I just hated them. Really, I can't think of a single one I liked. They were just depressing. I didn't want to root for any of them. I didn't understand the point of some of their actions and plans. I think the author tried too hard to be clever, but it wasn't clever and it was a painful failure.
I kept reading, hoping it would get better (I wanted to like it so much!) But it didn't. At least it was a quick read. I hated the ending, but celebrated that I finished it.
March 19, 2015
Oh, my god. It took willpower to finish this book. I did not enjoy the plot or the writing at all.
July 30, 2024
Honestly was a little lost through some of this as I would say this is definitely not my favorite style of writing (comedy, sarcastic, slightly weird view of women/young girls) but I did find myself giggling occasionally and liked how simple and random the premise of this book was. I also did not enjoy the ending. However, now I feel like a scrabble pro.
August 9, 2014
So, I don't know what to say about this one. Browning can write. He's invented an interesting character in Winston Crwth, a boy who, for unexplained reasons, keeps choosing high schools poorly and is on his third in three years. He's also a Scrabble champ, and is the recipient of a hefty scholarship that's bestowed by what he comes to realize is a pretty much evil fracking outfit.
Over the course of the story, Winston's political consciousness is raised (a little). Scrabble is talked about but plays a pretty small role so, you'll disappointed if you seek a little nail-biting word tournament action. Science is talked about, but not developed. Poetry is discussed a whole bunch, but you don't get to read any. Politics and power are talked about but, just as things start to become a titch interesting, the book . . . ends. There I was, reading the last page on the back porch going 'What?'
This is a good idea and there are some interesting scenes and characters but, in the end, it does not deliver.
Over the course of the story, Winston's political consciousness is raised (a little). Scrabble is talked about but plays a pretty small role so, you'll disappointed if you seek a little nail-biting word tournament action. Science is talked about, but not developed. Poetry is discussed a whole bunch, but you don't get to read any. Politics and power are talked about but, just as things start to become a titch interesting, the book . . . ends. There I was, reading the last page on the back porch going 'What?'
This is a good idea and there are some interesting scenes and characters but, in the end, it does not deliver.
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Vestibulum turpis sem, aliquet eget, lobortis pellentesque, rutrum eu, nisl. Sed libero. Aliquam erat volutpat. Etiam vitae tortor. Morbi vestibulum volutpat enim. Aliquam eu nunc. Nunc sed turpis. Sed mollis, eros et ultrices tempus, mauris ipsum aliquam libero, non adipiscing dolor urna a orci. Nulla porta dolor. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos. Pellentesque dapibus hendrerit tortor. Praesent egestas tristique nibh. Sed a libero. Cras varius. Donec vitae orci sed dolor rutrum auctor. Fusce egestas elit eget lorem. Suspendisse nisl elit, rhoncus eget, elementum ac, condimentum eget, diam. Nam at tortor in tellus interdum sagittis. Aliquam lobortis. Donec orci lectus, aliquam ut, faucibus non, euismod id, nulla. Curabitur blandit mollis lacus. Nam adipiscing. Vestibulum eu odio. Vivamus laoreet. Nullam tincidunt adipiscing enim. Phasellus tempus. 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Donec pede justo, fringilla vel, aliquet nec, vulputate eget, arcu. In enim justo, rhoncus ut, imperdiet a, venenatis vitae, justo. Nullam dictum felis eu pede mollis pretium. Integer tincidunt. Cras dapibus. Vivamus elementum semper nisi. Aenean vulputate eleifend tellus. Aenean leo ligula, porttitor eu, consequat vitae, eleifend ac, enim. Aliquam lorem ante, dapibus in, viverra quis, feugiat a, tellus. Phasellus viverra nulla ut metus varius laoreet. Quisque rutrum. Aenean imperdiet. Etiam ultricies nisi vel augue. Curabitur ullamcorper ultricies nisi. Nam eget dui. Etiam rhoncus. Maecenas tempus, tellus eget condimentum rhoncus, sem quam semper libero, sit amet adipiscing sem neque sed ipsum. Nam quam nunc, blandit vel, luctus pulvinar, hendrerit id, lorem. Maecenas nec odio et ante tincidunt tempus. Donec vitae sapien ut libero venenatis faucibus. Nullam quis ante. Etiam sit amet orci eget eros faucibus tincidunt. Duis leo. Sed fringilla mauris sit amet nibh. Donec sodales sagittis magna. Sed consequat, leo eget bibendum sodales, augue velit cursus nunc, quis gravida magna mi a libero. Fusce vulputate eleifend sapien. Vestibulum purus quam, scelerisque ut, mollis sed, nonummy id, metus. Nullam accumsan lorem in dui. Cras ultricies mi eu turpis hendrerit fringilla. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; In ac dui quis mi consectetuer lacinia. Nam pretium turpis et arcu. Duis arcu tortor, suscipit eget, imperdiet nec, imperdiet iaculis, ipsum. Sed aliquam ultrices mauris. Integer ante arcu, accumsan a, consectetuer eget, posuere ut, mauris. Praesent adipiscing. Phasellus ullamcorper ipsum rutrum nunc. Nunc nonummy metus. Vestibulum volutpat pretium libero. Cras id dui. Aenean ut eros et nisl sagittis vestibulum. Nullam nulla eros, ultricies sit amet, nonummy id, imperdiet feugiat, pede. Sed lectus. Donec mollis hendrerit risus. Phasellus nec sem in justo pellentesque facilisis. Etiam imperdiet imperdiet orci. Nunc nec neque. Phasellus leo dolor, tempus non, auctor et, hendrerit quis, nisi. Curabitur ligula sapien, tincidunt non, euismod vitae, posuere imperdiet, leo. Maecenas malesuada. Praesent congue erat at massa. Sed cursus turpis vitae tortor. Donec posuere vulputate arcu. Phasellus accumsan cursus velit. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Sed aliquam, nisi quis porttitor congue, elit erat euismod orci, ac placerat dolor lectus quis orci. Phasellus consectetuer vestibulum elit. Aenean tellus metus, bibendum sed, posuere ac, mattis non, nunc. Vestibulum fringilla pede sit amet augue. In turpis. Pellentesque posuere. Praesent turpis. Aenean posuere, tortor sed cursus feugiat, nunc augue blandit nunc, eu sollicitudin urna dolor sagittis lacus. Donec elit libero, sodales nec, volutpat a, suscipit non, turpis. Nullam sagittis. Suspendisse pulvinar, augue ac venenatis condimentum, sem libero volutpat nibh, nec pellentesque velit pede quis nunc. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Fusce id purus. Ut varius tincidunt libero. Phasellus dolor. Maecenas vestibulum mollis diam. Pellentesque ut neque. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. In dui magna, posuere eget, vestibulum et, tempor auctor, justo. In ac felis quis tortor malesuada pretium. Pellentesque auctor neque nec urna. Proin sapien ipsum, porta a, auctor quis, euismod ut, mi. Aenean viverra rhoncus pede. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Ut non enim eleifend felis pretium feugiat. Vivamus quis mi. Phasellus a est. Phasellus magna. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Curabitur at lacus ac velit ornare lobortis. Curabitur a felis in nunc fringilla tristique. Morbi mattis ullamcorper velit. Phasellus gravida semper nisi. Nullam vel sem. Pellentesque libero tortor, tincidunt et, tincidunt eget, semper nec, quam. Sed hendrerit. Morbi ac felis. Nunc egestas, augue at pellentesque laoreet, felis eros vehicula leo, at malesuada velit leo quis pede. Donec interdum, metus et hendrerit aliquet, dolor diam sagittis ligula, eget egestas libero turpis vel mi. Nunc nulla. Fusce risus nisl, viverra et, tempor et, pretium in, sapien. Donec venenatis vulputate lorem. Morbi nec metus. Phasellus blandit leo ut odio. Maecenas ullamcorper, dui et placerat feugiat, eros pede varius nisi, condimentum viverra felis nunc et lorem. Sed magna purus, fermentum eu, tincidunt eu, varius ut, felis. In auctor lobortis lacus. Quisque libero metus, condimentum nec, tempor a, commodo mollis, magna. Vestibulum ullamcorper mauris at ligula. Fusce fermentum. Nullam cursus lacinia erat. Praesent blandit laoreet nibh. Fusce convallis metus id felis luctus adipiscing. Pellentesque egestas, neque sit amet convallis pulvinar, justo nulla eleifend augue, ac auctor orci leo non est. Quisque id mi. Ut tincidunt tincidunt erat. Etiam feugiat lorem non metus. Vestibulum dapibus nunc ac augue. Curabitur vestibulum aliquam leo. Praesent egestas neque eu enim. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Fusce a quam. Etiam ut purus mattis mauris sodales aliquam. Curabitur nisi. Quisque malesuada placerat nisl. Nam ipsum risus, rutrum vitae, vestibulum eu, molestie vel, lacus. Sed augue ipsum, egestas nec, vestibulum et, malesuada adipiscing, dui. Vestibulum facilisis, purus nec pulvinar iaculis, ligula mi congue nunc, vitae euismod ligula urna in dolor. Mauris sollicitudin fermentum libero. Praesent nonummy mi in odio. Nunc interdum lacus sit amet orci. Vestibulum rutrum, mi nec elementum vehicula, eros quam gravida nisl, id fringilla neque ante vel mi. Morbi mollis tellus ac sapien. 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Proin pretium, leo ac pellentesque mollis, felis nunc ultrices eros, sed gravida augue augue mollis justo. Suspendisse eu ligula. Nulla facilisi. Donec id justo. Praesent porttitor, nulla vitae posuere iaculis, arcu nisl dignissim dolor, a pretium mi sem ut ipsum. Curabitur suscipit suscipit tellus. Praesent vestibulum dapibus nibh. Etiam iaculis nunc ac metus. Ut id nisl quis enim dignissim sagittis. Etiam sollicitudin, ipsum eu pulvinar rutrum, tellus ipsum laoreet sapien, quis venenatis ante odio sit amet eros. Proin magna. Duis vel nibh at velit scelerisque suscipit. Curabitur turpis. Vestibulum suscipit nulla quis orci. Fusce ac felis sit amet ligula pharetra condimentum. Maecenas egestas arcu quis ligula mattis placerat. Duis lobortis massa imperdiet quam. Suspendisse potenti. Pellentesque commodo eros a enim. Vestibulum turpis sem, aliquet eget, lobortis pellentesque, rutrum eu, nisl. Sed libero. Aliquam erat volutpat. Etiam vitae tortor. Morbi vestibulum volutpat enim. Aliquam eu nunc. Nunc sed turpis. Sed mollis, eros et ultrices tempus, mauris ipsum aliquam libero, non adipiscing dolor urna a orci. Nulla porta dolor. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos. Pellentesque dapibus hendrerit tortor. Praesent egestas tristique nibh. Sed a libero. Cras varius. Donec vitae orci sed dolor rutrum auctor. Fusce egestas elit eget lorem. Suspendisse nisl elit, rhoncus eget, elementum ac, condimentum eget, diam. Nam at tortor in tellus interdum sagittis. Aliquam lobortis. Donec orci lectus, aliquam ut, faucibus non, euismod id, nulla. Curabitur blandit mollis lacus. Nam adipiscing. Vestibulum eu odio. Vivamus laoreet. Nullam tincidunt adipiscing enim. Phasellus tempus. Proin viverra, ligula sit amet ultrices semper, ligula arcu tristique sapien, a accumsan nisi mauris ac eros. Fusce neque. Suspendisse faucibus, nunc et pellentesque egestas, lacus ante convallis tellus, vitae iaculis lacus elit id tortor. Vivamus aliquet elit ac nisl. Fusce fermentum odio nec arcu. Vivamus euismod mauris. In ut quam vitae odio lacinia tincidunt. Praesent ut ligula non mi varius sagittis. Cras sagittis. Praesent ac sem eget est egestas volutpat. Vivamus consectetuer hendrerit lacus. Cras non dolor. Vivamus in erat ut urna cursus vestibulum. Fusce commodo aliquam arcu. Nam commodo suscipit quam. Quisque id odio. Praesent venenatis metus at tortor pulvinar varius. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem. Nulla consequat massa quis enim. Donec pede justo, fringilla vel, aliquet nec, vulputate eget, arcu. In enim justo, rhoncus ut, imperdiet a, venenatis vitae, justo. Nullam dictum felis eu pede mollis pretium. Integer tincidunt. Cras dapibus. Vivamus elementum semper nisi. Aenean vulputate eleifend tellus. Aenean leo ligula, porttitor eu, consequat vitae, eleifend ac, enim. Aliquam lorem ante, dapibus in, viverra quis, feugiat a, tellus. Phasellus viverra nulla ut metus varius laoreet. Quisque rutrum. Aenean imperdiet. Etiam ultricies nisi vel augue. Curabitur ullamcorper ultricies nisi. Nam eget dui. Etiam rhoncus. Maecenas tempus, tellus eget condimentum rhoncus, sem quam semper libero, sit amet adipiscing sem neque sed ipsum. Nam quam nunc, blandit vel, luctus pulvinar, hendrerit id, lorem. Maecenas nec odio et ante tincidunt tempus. Donec vitae sapien ut libero venenatis faucibus. Nullam quis ante. Etiam sit amet orci eget eros faucibus tincidunt
Donec mi odio, faucibus at, scelerisque quis, convallis in, nisi. Suspendisse non nisl sit amet velit hendrerit rutrum. Ut leo. Ut a nisl id ante tempus hendrerit. Proin pretium, leo ac pellentesque mollis, felis nunc ultrices eros, sed gravida augue augue mollis justo. Suspendisse eu ligula. Nulla facilisi. Donec id justo. Praesent porttitor, nulla vitae posuere iaculis, arcu nisl dignissim dolor, a pretium mi sem ut ipsum. Curabitur suscipit suscipit tellus. Praesent vestibulum dapibus nibh. Etiam iaculis nunc ac metus. Ut id nisl quis enim dignissim sagittis. Etiam sollicitudin, ipsum eu pulvinar rutrum, tellus ipsum laoreet sapien, quis venenatis ante odio sit amet eros. Proin magna. Duis vel nibh at velit scelerisque suscipit. Curabitur turpis. Vestibulum suscipit nulla quis orci. Fusce ac felis sit amet ligula pharetra condimentum. Maecenas egestas arcu quis ligula mattis placerat. Duis lobortis massa imperdiet quam. Suspendisse potenti. Pellentesque commodo eros a enim. Vestibulum turpis sem, aliquet eget, lobortis pellentesque, rutrum eu, nisl. Sed libero. Aliquam erat volutpat. Etiam vitae tortor. Morbi vestibulum volutpat enim. Aliquam eu nunc. Nunc sed turpis. Sed mollis, eros et ultrices tempus, mauris ipsum aliquam libero, non adipiscing dolor urna a orci. Nulla porta dolor. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos. Pellentesque dapibus hendrerit tortor. Praesent egestas tristique nibh. Sed a libero. Cras varius. Donec vitae orci sed dolor rutrum auctor. Fusce egestas elit eget lorem. Suspendisse nisl elit, rhoncus eget, elementum ac, condimentum eget, diam. Nam at tortor in tellus interdum sagittis. Aliquam lobortis. Donec orci lectus, aliquam ut, faucibus non, euismod id, nulla. Curabitur blandit mollis lacus. Nam adipiscing. Vestibulum eu odio. Vivamus laoreet. Nullam tincidunt adipiscing enim. Phasellus tempus. Proin viverra, ligula sit amet ultrices semper, ligula arcu tristique sapien, a accumsan nisi mauris ac eros. Fusce neque. Suspendisse faucibus, nunc et pellentesque egestas, lacus ante convallis tellus, vitae iaculis lacus elit id tortor. Vivamus aliquet elit ac nisl. Fusce fermentum odio nec arcu. Vivamus euismod mauris. In ut quam vitae odio lacinia tincidunt. Praesent ut ligula non mi varius sagittis. Cras sagittis. Praesent ac sem eget est egestas volutpat. Vivamus consectetuer hendrerit lacus. Cras non dolor. Vivamus in erat ut urna cursus vestibulum. Fusce commodo aliquam arcu. Nam commodo suscipit quam. Quisque id odio. Praesent venenatis metus at tortor pulvinar varius. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem. Nulla consequat massa quis enim. Donec pede justo, fringilla vel, aliquet nec, vulputate eget, arcu. In enim justo, rhoncus ut, imperdiet a, venenatis vitae, justo. Nullam dictum felis eu pede mollis pretium. Integer tincidunt. Cras dapibus. Vivamus elementum semper nisi. Aenean vulputate eleifend tellus. Aenean leo ligula, porttitor eu, consequat vitae, eleifend ac, enim. Aliquam lorem ante, dapibus in, viverra quis, feugiat a, tellus. Phasellus viverra nulla ut metus varius laoreet. Quisque rutrum. Aenean imperdiet. Etiam ultricies nisi vel augue. Curabitur ullamcorper ultricies nisi. Nam eget dui. Etiam rhoncus. Maecenas tempus, tellus eget condimentum rhoncus, sem quam semper libero, sit amet adipiscing sem neque sed ipsum. Nam quam nunc, blandit vel, luctus pulvinar, hendrerit id, lorem. Maecenas nec odio et ante tincidunt tempus. Donec vitae sapien ut libero venenatis faucibus. Nullam quis ante. Etiam sit amet orci eget eros faucibus tincidunt. Duis leo. Sed fringilla mauris sit amet nibh. Donec sodales sagittis magna. Sed consequat, leo eget bibendum sodales, augue velit cursus nunc, quis gravida magna mi a libero. Fusce vulputate eleifend sapien. Vestibulum purus quam, scelerisque ut, mollis sed, nonummy id, metus. Nullam accumsan lorem in dui. Cras ultricies mi eu turpis hendrerit fringilla. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; In ac dui quis mi consectetuer lacinia. Nam pretium turpis et arcu. Duis arcu tortor, suscipit eget, imperdiet nec, imperdiet iaculis, ipsum. Sed aliquam ultrices mauris. Integer ante arcu, accumsan a, consectetuer eget, posuere ut, mauris. Praesent adipiscing. Phasellus ullamcorper ipsum rutrum nunc. Nunc nonummy metus. Vestibulum volutpat pretium libero. Cras id dui. Aenean ut eros et nisl sagittis vestibulum. Nullam nulla eros, ultricies sit amet, nonummy id, imperdiet feugiat, pede. Sed lectus. Donec mollis hendrerit risus. Phasellus nec sem in justo pellentesque facilisis. Etiam imperdiet imperdiet orci. Nunc nec neque. Phasellus leo dolor, tempus non, auctor et, hendrerit quis, nisi. Curabitur ligula sapien, tincidunt non, euismod vitae, posuere imperdiet, leo. Maecenas malesuada. Praesent congue erat at massa. Sed cursus turpis vitae tortor. Donec posuere vulputate arcu. Phasellus accumsan cursus velit. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Sed aliquam, nisi quis porttitor congue, elit erat euismod orci, ac placerat dolor lectus quis orci. Phasellus consectetuer vestibulum elit. Aenean tellus metus, bibendum sed, posuere ac, mattis non, nunc. Vestibulum fringilla pede sit amet augue. In turpis. Pellentesque posuere. Praesent turpis. Aenean posuere, tortor sed cursus feugiat, nunc augue blandit nunc, eu sollicitudin urna dolor sagittis lacus. Donec elit libero, sodales nec, volutpat a, suscipit non, turpis. Nullam sagittis. 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July 15, 2014
I'm struggling to understand the poor reviews on this book - I feel like I must have read something completely different. This is a really good portrait of a mainstream teen getting caught up in a political quagmire while still trying to get the girl and figure out who he is. I can only assume that we are so used to reading about the dysfunctional kids, the sick kids, the genius kids, that when the fairly normal kid comes along in literature, we don't know what to make of him.
I also think, at 192 pages, this is a pretty short book by modern day reader standards. What fits into that amount of space is very different than the 300+ pages most readers are used to. What this means is a shorter, more focused time frame of events - more focus on individual events and less broadly sweeping time frames. It also means less overall character growth (how much can you grow in a couple of months?) but does not amount to shallow character insights. This is not an epic.
The main character, Win, is very likable, the situation is pretty believable and the writing is fabulous. It is the writing that keeps this from being a YA novel, in my opinion, because while there is some very good YA writing out there, this easily surpasses that and moves into contemporary literary form. That said, I will definitely recommend it to advanced and adult YA readers (there are no language or topic issues that I can think of to prevent teens from reading either).
While fracking is a topic in the book, there is no political agenda, no preaching, no real judgement call, per se, except on the part of a few of the characters. No drawn out explanations of what the process involves, no history of the technique. Even the main character seems unsure about where he should stand on the subject and follows his path because of his friends more than what seems a deep-seated conviction about the process.
A lot of copy and reviews make much of the Scrabble part of the book - it is fun and definitely pushes along the plot, but there is so much more to this story - so many ways to identify with Win - and some of the other characters, too.
I do agree that there is some disjointedness. The occasional weirdly placed reminder or a stray character who is interesting but doesn't hang around long enough to get developed, but overall, I say give this one a shot.
I also think, at 192 pages, this is a pretty short book by modern day reader standards. What fits into that amount of space is very different than the 300+ pages most readers are used to. What this means is a shorter, more focused time frame of events - more focus on individual events and less broadly sweeping time frames. It also means less overall character growth (how much can you grow in a couple of months?) but does not amount to shallow character insights. This is not an epic.
The main character, Win, is very likable, the situation is pretty believable and the writing is fabulous. It is the writing that keeps this from being a YA novel, in my opinion, because while there is some very good YA writing out there, this easily surpasses that and moves into contemporary literary form. That said, I will definitely recommend it to advanced and adult YA readers (there are no language or topic issues that I can think of to prevent teens from reading either).
While fracking is a topic in the book, there is no political agenda, no preaching, no real judgement call, per se, except on the part of a few of the characters. No drawn out explanations of what the process involves, no history of the technique. Even the main character seems unsure about where he should stand on the subject and follows his path because of his friends more than what seems a deep-seated conviction about the process.
A lot of copy and reviews make much of the Scrabble part of the book - it is fun and definitely pushes along the plot, but there is so much more to this story - so many ways to identify with Win - and some of the other characters, too.
I do agree that there is some disjointedness. The occasional weirdly placed reminder or a stray character who is interesting but doesn't hang around long enough to get developed, but overall, I say give this one a shot.
June 7, 2014
Fracking: “The process of injecting liquid at high pressure into subterranean rocks, boreholes, etc., so as to force open existing fissures and extract oil or gas.” We do love our oil. Despite the seriousness of the subject matter, James Browning manages to present us with a new literary hero. Win Crwth (rhymes with “truth”) is a more sociable Holden Caulfield: A Scrabble player extraordinaire attending private school after being awarded a scholarship from Dark Oil & Gas, frackers extraordinaire. As a Philadelphian, now misplaced in Tampa Bay, I chose this book as my monthly Amazon Prime Kindle First Pre-Release. As a Pennsylvanian, I remember the town of Centralia. Once the seat of Molly Maguire activity it is now a virtual ghost town because of the fire burning the mine underground since the 1960’s. The state took away people’s property claiming eminent domain and the US government revoked their zip code. No more than 10 people still live there despite toxic gas and smoke escaping, ruining air and water. Centralia, a lesson for the advent of the fracked communities. But please do not let my negative comments on the pollution of a beautiful place influence your desire to read this book. Despite the beauty queen governor and the fire that shoots out of the bathroom tap, this is not really a political story; it is truly a humorous, life-affirming, coming-of-age, cleverly-written book peopled with unique and enjoyable characters!
October 31, 2016
Plausibility is not a matter of strict realism, but of skillful writing. Yet this book managed to take a fairly believable situation and make it seem totally implausible. I love a good complex plot that makes me think, but this was all over the place. The plot actually wasn't complex, it was more stream-of-consciousness and making random leaps that I think were supposed to seem terribly clever. Other than a few cool ideas and absurdly funny moments, the book mostly felt like a first draft. The plot twists weren't actually twists, they were just random ideas thrown in that went nowhere and made no sense. The characters were cartoonish. And the continuity-- yegads!--the narrator was constantly telling tales of things that couldn't possibly have happened in the time frame they were supposed to have, like talking about longstanding relationships with people he'd only met days earlier. Big reveals that weren't really big, plot contradictions that were hastily "fixed" with an explanation a page later... If I needed to be convinced that fracking is bad, this novel certainly wouldn't do the trick.
April 1, 2018
What?
This book was so frustrating. I loved the first couple chapters - the writing was funny, witty, fresh. The story was interesting and I loved the wordplay, as this was a tale about Scrabble. Then, the narrative structure literally falls apart. Episodes of action happen that have no bearing on the rest of the story. It's as if whole chapters have been removed. I was constantly thinking, "what is happening right now?" This was the most disjointed book I've ever read. I still have no idea what happened in the end, what "818" had to do w anything, why Mr U was sick, what his relationship w the main characters was, what happened to the roommate, etc. I could go on and on - nothing was concluded or explained. A true waste of time and I've never thought that of a book before now.
I forgot to mention : What was with the whole storyline about the computer game Leah? What did that have to do w anything? oh my god, the more I think about the book, the worse it gets.
This book was so frustrating. I loved the first couple chapters - the writing was funny, witty, fresh. The story was interesting and I loved the wordplay, as this was a tale about Scrabble. Then, the narrative structure literally falls apart. Episodes of action happen that have no bearing on the rest of the story. It's as if whole chapters have been removed. I was constantly thinking, "what is happening right now?" This was the most disjointed book I've ever read. I still have no idea what happened in the end, what "818" had to do w anything, why Mr U was sick, what his relationship w the main characters was, what happened to the roommate, etc. I could go on and on - nothing was concluded or explained. A true waste of time and I've never thought that of a book before now.
I forgot to mention : What was with the whole storyline about the computer game Leah? What did that have to do w anything? oh my god, the more I think about the book, the worse it gets.
July 10, 2016
This book took place primarily at a boarding school for boys in Pennsylvania, and is about competitive Scrabble and fracking. I know, it sounds implausible, but there it is. I enjoyed the story and characters up until the last 10% or so, and then the story fell apart. Disappointing, because I thought it was headed somewhere. The scene near the end with the governor was so anti-climactic that the rest of it made no sense. A good editor should have looked at that scene and made sure it had some substance. I do know much more about fracking than I did before :)
October 2, 2014
I haven't touched this book in several months, and I just can't find it in me to finish. Normally I will finish things no matter what, just so I can say I read/watched/did it. The writing was poor, the story jumped around a lot and didn't seem to finish a scene or a characters thoughts. I was intrigued by the idea of a book dealing with scrabble, but this just didn't pull me in at all. I would not recommend this to anyone.
June 10, 2014
This book started strong. Win is a good character and I liked him. I feel like nearly every other character was underdeveloped though. About halfway through I started losing interest but held out to see how it ended. It ended abruptly. There were so many side plots that were hinted at but never came to light. And I'm left with this want to know many of the secondary characters better.
August 6, 2019
Threw in some transphobia and used the word f*g twice for no reason, no plot value. The ending was deeply unsatisfying, the main character was unlikeable, the dialogue was nonsense, and for some reason, the author would use the exact same sentences multiple times throughout the book? If it was a stylistic choice, it was a bad one. But hey, it supports protecting the environment...
January 13, 2020
I felt stubbornly compelled to finish this book, but I would not recommend it.
It's extremely difficult the follow and doesn't come to any clear conclusion. It feels as though the author likes Scrabble and cares about fracking and brought these two together in an extremely contrived and unfulfilling narrative.
I'm sure there's more to say, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort.
It's extremely difficult the follow and doesn't come to any clear conclusion. It feels as though the author likes Scrabble and cares about fracking and brought these two together in an extremely contrived and unfulfilling narrative.
I'm sure there's more to say, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort.
May 29, 2019
EASILY the worst book I've ever read. EASILY.
Imagine Moffat's Sherlock except every single character is Sherlock Holmes. Or, a version of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close where the protagonist grew up to think about girls as nothing but vaginas in a way weirdly reminiscent of "nice guy" incels––and shape his entire personality around Scrabble (for real, there is no personality except Scrabble. It's all Scrabble). Also, imagine that there's no plot. Imagine laughing out loud when the main character refers to his time in the book as an "odyssey" because, well, he learned nothing, changed nothing, and, for all practical purposes, did nothing.
I finished the book for no other reason to see whether or not there would be something redeemable about it. And, to be fair, the ending showed that the author did, in fact, at some point, have a vision. It just...was never realized, at any point, during the novel.
I would like to take a minute here to point out the most alarming point in the book (which, by the way, is marketed as an environmental novel, despite the fact that the harms of fracking are mostly offscreen or seem tacked on, as if this was a last-minute addition). There is only one girl at this all-boys boarding school, and she ends up having a sexual relationship (the concept of romantic/non-sexual love relationships doesn't exist in this book) with one of the teachers (who has a son that goes to the school, who doesn't matter because none of the relationships in this book matter because none of this characters feel genuine...). This teacher's personality is best described as Haymitch from The Hunger Games becomes Rupi Kaur. It's so bad. And instead of being mad at this teacher for sexually abusing a student who's probably only fifteen or sixteen, the author decides to focus on how the girl is just another girl who goes for a jerk. It's like the author forgot that high schoolers and full-fledged adults are not the same age.
Everything in this book is a yikes! If I tried to write out a review responding to everything, my fingers would bleed on the keyboard before I finished. This book is so bad.
I checked the cover page and...yep, this was commercially published. I assumed that this was a self-published book by someone who downloaded their worldview from a couple of subreddits, but no. Commerically published. Maybe Browning has a cousin who works as an editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. That's all I can guess.
Imagine Moffat's Sherlock except every single character is Sherlock Holmes. Or, a version of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close where the protagonist grew up to think about girls as nothing but vaginas in a way weirdly reminiscent of "nice guy" incels––and shape his entire personality around Scrabble (for real, there is no personality except Scrabble. It's all Scrabble). Also, imagine that there's no plot. Imagine laughing out loud when the main character refers to his time in the book as an "odyssey" because, well, he learned nothing, changed nothing, and, for all practical purposes, did nothing.
I finished the book for no other reason to see whether or not there would be something redeemable about it. And, to be fair, the ending showed that the author did, in fact, at some point, have a vision. It just...was never realized, at any point, during the novel.
I would like to take a minute here to point out the most alarming point in the book (which, by the way, is marketed as an environmental novel, despite the fact that the harms of fracking are mostly offscreen or seem tacked on, as if this was a last-minute addition). There is only one girl at this all-boys boarding school, and she ends up having a sexual relationship (the concept of romantic/non-sexual love relationships doesn't exist in this book) with one of the teachers (who has a son that goes to the school, who doesn't matter because none of the relationships in this book matter because none of this characters feel genuine...). This teacher's personality is best described as Haymitch from The Hunger Games becomes Rupi Kaur. It's so bad. And instead of being mad at this teacher for sexually abusing a student who's probably only fifteen or sixteen, the author decides to focus on how the girl is just another girl who goes for a jerk. It's like the author forgot that high schoolers and full-fledged adults are not the same age.
Everything in this book is a yikes! If I tried to write out a review responding to everything, my fingers would bleed on the keyboard before I finished. This book is so bad.
I checked the cover page and...yep, this was commercially published. I assumed that this was a self-published book by someone who downloaded their worldview from a couple of subreddits, but no. Commerically published. Maybe Browning has a cousin who works as an editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. That's all I can guess.
October 26, 2020
I don't know what to say about this.
It wasn't the worst book in the history of the world, but it was an odd mix: an ecological novel with political elements encased in competitive Scrabble.
I literally don't know what to say.
The protagonist was interesting, but the plot wasn't very cohesive. I'm still confused. Partially about what happened in the book, and partially because I'm not sure why I kept reading once it became obvious that it wasn't going anywhere particularly interesting.
2 out of 5 stars.
It wasn't the worst book in the history of the world, but it was an odd mix: an ecological novel with political elements encased in competitive Scrabble.
I literally don't know what to say.
The protagonist was interesting, but the plot wasn't very cohesive. I'm still confused. Partially about what happened in the book, and partially because I'm not sure why I kept reading once it became obvious that it wasn't going anywhere particularly interesting.
2 out of 5 stars.
January 2, 2019
Had potential
I feel like this book had so much potential but never went anywhere. I felt engaged right from the start. I was invested in the protagonist and the story. There seemed to be a real opportunity to make a point with its topic too. I was interested to see what the author would do. But the ending was so anticlimactic and the story just died. Nothing came out of everything that was built up so nicely.
I feel like this book had so much potential but never went anywhere. I felt engaged right from the start. I was invested in the protagonist and the story. There seemed to be a real opportunity to make a point with its topic too. I was interested to see what the author would do. But the ending was so anticlimactic and the story just died. Nothing came out of everything that was built up so nicely.
November 13, 2017
Reading about hapless Scrabble genius, who also rows eights and decides to wage war on fracking seems like it should be more fun. While all the elements of the school and the protagonist's environment seem too odd to be true, they're on par for the lunacy hidden in Pennsylvania, but that's maybe the problem. It didn't really go far enough to be funny, or stay close enough to truth either.
January 6, 2018
I read this a while ago, but my recollection is that it started fairly slowly (though compellingly), and then kinda dragged toward the end with a vaguely unsatisfying ending. That said, I do recall enjoying that it was a fairly quick read with characters that I got invested in.
June 11, 2017
Better than I expected based on other peoples ratings.
Quirky.
Quirky.
May 1, 2018
Too many good books to read. Don't waste your time on this one.
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