Status Updates From This Boy's Life

i'm so mad that he carelessly kills the dog like that. he fucking loved you guys.

two creepy, broke, dumbass men preying on a single mother. cant even afford a hamburger or clean up their shitty house before dragging them over. fuck the 50s.

50s casual misogyny in young adolescent boys. boys being discouraged from sharing their feelings and emotions so they pretend to watch mickey mouse club for the sexy lady they have a crush on but they take the show seriously in silence. interesting themes.

The titular boy just tried to commit check fraud and rip off an innocent old lady, only to be found out and run away. Then we're just on to the next vignette. No self-reflection at the time, no self-reflection from an adult perspective, just endless unrelated situations where the adolescent Wolff acts like a sociopath. Hard to believe a book about such an awful kid is also dull as dirt, but here we are.

Halfway into the book, something that might've been vaguely interesting almost happened in Wolff getting a chance to move to Paris. This American Boy's Life in Paris might've had something to care about, so I knew it wasn't happening because nothing interesting ever happens in this book. It failed to pan out and immediately switched to a pointless anecdote about Wolff's stepfather claiming to have met Lawrence Welk.