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A review by tsunanisaurus
Please Don't Kill the Freshman by Zoe Trope
2.0
I read this book the year it came out and I probably loved it then.
But, it's funny how your perspective changes once you get older, once you learn who the "anonymous" author is and that she wrote about some of your very good friends and said some very untrue things about them.
Zoe Trope (pseudonym, first name is really Zoe, last name is different but I'll grant her the privacy of keeping her anonymity) graduated the same year as many of my friends at a local Oregon high school. She was writing the book while still in school, which she did not graduate early from (as her Wikipedia articles says). A few of the characters in the novel are my friends and they are well aware that it is about them.
I re-read the book last year and couldn't believe how childish it is, which is something it was actually praised for at the time of its release. There are moments of lovely prose and hints of a great author; but she has not produced any books since Please Don't Kill the Freshman's release in late 2003.
But, it's funny how your perspective changes once you get older, once you learn who the "anonymous" author is and that she wrote about some of your very good friends and said some very untrue things about them.
Zoe Trope (pseudonym, first name is really Zoe, last name is different but I'll grant her the privacy of keeping her anonymity) graduated the same year as many of my friends at a local Oregon high school. She was writing the book while still in school, which she did not graduate early from (as her Wikipedia articles says). A few of the characters in the novel are my friends and they are well aware that it is about them.
I re-read the book last year and couldn't believe how childish it is, which is something it was actually praised for at the time of its release. There are moments of lovely prose and hints of a great author; but she has not produced any books since Please Don't Kill the Freshman's release in late 2003.