Please Don't Kill the Freshman : A Memoir

Rating:
Summary: Very Moving
Review: When I first started to read this book I didn't like it. By the middle of it I was remotely apathetic to it. By the end it consumed me.

If you are looking for great literature this isn't your book. If you are looking at a raw, poinant look into the life of a 14 year old, this is your book. Zoe tells it how it is, and most importantly it's all real. Every bit of it. Every emotion is that of the 14 year old who is authoring the book.

Zoe will strike a nerve and it will rattle down to the core. This is a great piece of work that needs to be read by young adults who need to know they aren't alone in the world, and by adults who need to be reminded how non-linear youth really is.

Rating:
Summary: Trendy & Cutting Edge
Review: Zoe is just another novelty item like that show where gay guys re-design your house, or what have you. She is snobby and elitist, and holds a cult of followers who should but don't know any better.

On her website, www.zoe-trope.com, she banned me for posting a review from Amazon.com that told the truth, that she avoids her critics by a myriad of mechanisms.

If you are a poser, a fake, and have no real taste buds for real literature, this is for you.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Review: Zoe Trope's work is wonderful. The prose (for her style of writing leans more towards prose for its choppy phrases with words being specifically chosen and having meaning) is vague, but at the same time all-encompassing: the back of the book states, "This is a book about you", and the vagueness emphasizes that, for the book COULD be about me. Or you. While most adults and those more close-minded probably will not condone the book, teens (especially the intelligent on-the-edges types) will enjoy it and find solace within the book. Zoe Trope is a gifted writer and a genuinely nice person. Go visit her at www.zoe-trope.com