King Dork By Frank Portman

High School and growing up is painful yada yada yada. That is a theme going back as far as i know and has not been articulated better some may say then by JD Salinger in Catcher in the Rye. So how does one tell you this and still manage to be fresh. Portman's ingenious idea was to confront the Catcher problem head on and make you examine the books, songs and other things we are told are great but not why they are. The hero Thomas Henderson AKA Chi Mo is obviously a Holden Caufield type and has such disregard for the Catcher culties he says outright the book sucks. This is a young adult book by the way. Remeber the Portman Catcher sucks just blind allegiance sucks. I guess I should tell you the plot. Chi Mo is low low man on hillmount social pecking order he is just one step above a boy who needs a helmet for when he bumps into things. One day he discovers his dead faher's books and reads them in order to get to know him better he discovers his father may have been murdered and wants tofind out the truth. in the mean time he starts about 15 bands meets a girl or two and never loses that great inner voice of his. i loved how in this book i really got the idea that he was mumbles boy on the outside yet he had these great witticisms he could only articulate as an inner monologue. I know the genre of book may put some off don't be misled this is a fun book.