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l8r, g8r (Internet Girls)

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4 star:		(8)
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1 star:		(8)

 

 

My 6th grader brought this book home from a friend, and I was shocked, I mean SHOCKED (and I'm no prude), at the themes in this book. The storyline follows three high school seniors IMing with each other. They discuss in lurid details one girl's loss of virginity, as well as oral sex (in detail). One girl goes to a doc for birth control pills. They talk about drinking and partying as if it were the norm for a senior. There's an escalating theme of hatred as two sets of girls do increasing cruel things to each other, including one girl placing a Craig's List sex ad with another girl's home phone number. (The author seems to think it helps the dramatic tension to actually spell out the sex ad to the reader, in all its f-word, multiple orgasm glory.) One girl takes a gift of a jeep from a boyfriend she was about to break up with, but now decides to string along. Throughout the story, there's no feeling that the characters are anything but shallow, image-obsessed, crude, amoral people.

The thing that made me feel saddest about this book, aside from my daughter's innocence being dissolved after reading a tiny bit, is that this series of books are so popular. With all of the wonderful books out there for teens, this crap is part of a New York Times best selling series. Really? This is what we're spending our money on?

This book makes me want to have rating systems on kids' books. It was that gross.

This book is marketed to the pre-teen/early teen crowd, but it is completely inappropriate for the 11-15 age group. There are graphic descriptions of both oral sex and the loss of virginity, as well as profanity, alcohol use, extra-marital affairs, and an overall message that pleasing a boy sexually is a prerequisite to becoming a woman. After performing her first sexual act on a boy as a "going away present" ("cause i won't c him for a week") one character actually exclaims to her friends, "I feel so proud of myself!" I can't imagine a worse book for a girl.

This book is so poorly written even if it was appropriate for children to read they should not. This is a 4th grade reading level at best yet geared for 15 year olds?? Why is the writing so moronic maybe it has to do with the three main dumb girls and the poorly written plot? Don't waste your time or your brain cells on this one.

Caution to parents this book is not appropriate for children, don't be fooled by the cover and low reading level.

L8r,g8r is a book written in text messaging and instant chat format. The style of writing is very clever and is attractive to many teens, including my daughter. However the content of the material is anything but attractive or clever. It talks about demoralizing our youth with premarital sex, alcohol, and bullying. In the first 20 pages it talks about a visit to Planned Parenthood, a high school student going on the pill for her "boyfriend". An Aunt who has a sex toy party and does pole dancing.
Our children have enough being thrown at them from society on how to make good choices. This author did not make any natural consequence of the decisions that these kids made. They did things that were morally wrong and life went on as usual. The author failed to see teenagers as a full human being, with physically, social and spiritual means. She did not even talk about the spiritual needs of these characters. In fact she made fun of religion by having the girl " Zoe" have sex with her boyfriend for the first time in the basement of a church. It makes you wonder what kind of life this author has, and what her motivations are for teens to read this!

I can't fathom why Ms. Myracle chose to start writing these Internet Girls books after writing nice books for teens. I guess she thought she would hop on the chatspeak bandwagon, but just because something is popular doesn't mean it's good. This book is marketed towards the younger teen crowd, but this book (and the series) is rife with chatting about sex and drugs along with useless teen fluff and drama. It saddens me that Ms. Myracle thought that these books were somehow a good idea to write. Way to go, Ms. Myracle, contribute to the dumbing down and sexualization of today's teen generation.

If I ever tried to write a whole book in chatspeak, I'm sure I would lose quite a few IQ points. Chatspeak is appropriate in just a few situations or to send a quick message, and a book is DEFINITELY not one of them. Making chatspeak more acceptable/mainstream/"cool" will only further exacerbate the problems already besieging our society.

This book, apparently like all of the books in this series, is complete trash. Over my dead body will my kids ever speak or act this way. I am a liberal, long-haired academic and yet I am disgusted at the lifestyles that this book glorifies for young teens. I understand that drugs and sex often happen early, but glorifying them in any book, much less a book aimed at young girls is completely unacceptable. This book is trash. Do not let your kids buy it.

I read ttly and ttfn before, and thought they were okay books, so I went: "why not read the third one, might as well", after I finish it, it ruined completely the ok of the other two books, I wouldn't let my sister (which is a teenager) reading it. I'm very open minded, but I always think that if I'm going to take some time reading a book, they should be fun, interesting and have some positive message in the story.

This is a great book for teens to preteens. I would recommend it to these age groups but no lower. This addition was not as good the books TTYL or TTFN also by lauren myracle, but was still good.

Lauren Myracle has done it again!! She has created a well written book that consists of the I.M. messages of three close friends: Maddie, Angela, and Zoe. The three friends dread saying good-bye at the end of the year (They are headed to college). Evil Queen Bee Jana and the 'rents get in the way of their perfect senior year, though. The threesome are in a war with Jana throughout the year. You will get hooked as you read about these three awesome teenagers. Good-girl Zoe is finally becoming a woman, yet is as stressed as an adult already. Her mother threatens to make her pay for college tuition with her own money if she doesn't go to her mother's choice. Risk-taker Maddie wants desperately to leave the high school crowd and move on to college, but becomes more sentimental as the year progresses (and falls in love with her ex again, who will be going to a different college). Hip Angela searches for true love, but can't seem to find it. She makes the mistake of wanting to chose loves with her head and not her heart. This is a great way to write a book (though I.M.'s), and keeps you on the edge throughout the story. A fantastic book for teens.

Have you ever IMed your friend on the computer or on your cell phone? Well, in the realistic fiction book L8r, G8r by Lauren Myracle that's how three friends communicate with each other. This book is written like you are on the computer reading real ims that can be sent back and forth. This book talks about lovesick girls, boy- crazy girls, and rebellious girls.
Angela, Maddie, and Zoe are a.k.a the winsome threesome. In the book they talk about their new plans to embarrass the most popular/evil girl in school, Zoe talks about her relationship with her boyfriend and it talks about the relationships between Angela, Maddie, and their boyfriends. Before you read L8r, G8r you have to read ttyl (talk to you later and ttfn (ta- ta for now). I recommend this book for kids in 6th grade and older. If you read this book make sure that you understand i.m.