This book is not good. In fact, it's quite awful. I wrote it in 1987-88, when I was thirteen years old and in grade 8. It is poorly crafted, implausibly plotted, though grammatically quite sound. It is, I hope, amusing in its youthful crappiness.
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Tara Ariano is the co-creator of Hissyfit.com, Fametracker.com, and TelevisionWithoutPity.com. She grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan and now lives, laughs, and loves in Toronto.
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49 of 60 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
It Definitely Does Not Follow,
By Emotional Torture Chamber (Montreal, PQ, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Untitled: A Bad Teen Novel (Paperback)
Ariano is just so full of herself. My first whiff of this book was strangely reminiscent of Drew Barrymore's equally whiny "Little Girl Lost." The difference is that, despite still having wild child tendencies (even now at age 30), Barrymore actually demonstrated that she could learn and evolve. Ariano (aka Wing Chun) has failed on all fronts.
Having been a teenager of the 1980s, I find it impossible to sympathize. I encountered a level of brutality and ostracism that would blow her mind. (Even Revenge of the Nerds was a better example of 1980s misfit youth life.) I also find it hard to be anything other than bored or annoyed at her mindset. "A Bad Teen Novel" is a mild way to put it. If you have a copy, burn it or shred it or get your money back. A minus five-star rating is the mildest way to go.
31 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
"There are grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.",
By Q2 (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Untitled: A Bad Teen Novel (Paperback)
The concept of this book is not necessarily bad because looking back on your adolescent attempts at writing can be amusing, in a cringe-inducing way, but I don't understand what Ariano was trying to achieve by making this available to the public. It isn't funny to anyone who doesn't actually know the author and it just seems like a pointless exercise in self-aggrandisement.
Vanity publishing has that name for a reason.
35 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Smug and tiresome,
By Scriptease (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Untitled: A Bad Teen Novel (Paperback)
If cringe-inducing teen prose is what you're in the mood for, I suggest pulling your old diaries out of storage. Tara Ariano's bad teen writing and present-day asides are no more interesting, clever or funny than yours. A pointless vanity piece that offers no insight or relevance within its understandably self-published pages.
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