Customer Reviews

ttyl (Talk to You Later)

5 star:		(56)
4 star:		(37)
3 star:		(14)
2 star:		(9)
1 star:		(38)

 

 

I'm a senior in high school who sometimes gets bored in the library during study hall. As a result of said boredom, my friend and I decided to select a book from the display our librarian had decided to put up full of iffy-looking young adult books and read it to see if it was as dumb as it looked.

That book was Lauren Myracle's "ttyl".

Has Ms Myracle ever HAD an IM conversation? I cannot believe that people are using the word "realistic" to describe the complete mess that is this book; they must be adult readers because NO ONE TALKS LIKE THAT, not even on IM. Trust me. I'm practically sobbing as I write this because I want you to understand...TEENAGERS ARE NOT THIS STUPID IN REAL LIFE. Good god. This book offends me and makes me ashamed to be a teenage girl...is this what people think we're like? AHHH. No. No. Nonononono. Just...No.

Please please please do not buy this book. It might encourage the author to type out more stupid things and sell them to unwitting publishers who don't know what they're unleashing on the world. *shudder*

I picked up this book at my library thinking it might be a fun read. The cover was cute and the back sounded interesting, and I had read the first page, and there was nothing wrong or anything, so it seemed reasonable. I should've dug quite deeper to realize the truth.

Crammed, spaced, and shorted to IM form, TTYL is a story about three teenagers going through the same things all the other teenagers are going through, boy drama, mean girls, odd teachers, while trying to keep up their friendship. The first few pages were ok, but then, the book got...a bit overboard. I mean, I know teenagers swear, but this was going a little too far, shoving in all the bad words where, it's not needed. There are a thousand other words in the english language but Myracle has to go ahead and use the f word a bunch of times, which leaves some parents not happy with their child's read.

But really, this book is totally gross, and I didn't find it funny. It talks about sex and boys as if they are the last things on this Earth. Shouldn't the girls in the books be using their high school time wisely? Well, they don't, and I'm annoyed.

Another reason i'm mad is because of the cover: Cute, funny, overpowering to young girls; hint, hint, young girls, reading these books, getting into this stuff at an early age. Now, I admit i'm young too, but I don't read books that swear off every page just because the author believes everyone is doing it, and it's perfectly ok. Well, teens do tend to swear, but some try not to go too far. Myracle, you went off a cliff this time.

I want to know if I read the same book as the people who gave this thing 5 stars. Reading TTYL made me want to break down in tears. Is that how society truly views teenage girls? As a sophomore in high school, trust me on this, no middle/jr/high school female acts like that. The whole book basically made it seem as if all we're interested in is boys, sex, and boys. I was deeply disappointed in the fact that the author was promoting this. Although, I have more issues with the publisher who thought this one was a winner. And I don't believe anyone on this planet, or the next, types like that.

Do yourself a favor, and don't even bother reading TTYL. You've much better things to do with your time, like watching the grass grow.

If you think these things listed here are appropriate reading for your 13 year old then I guess this book is for you. It's disgusting and it doesn't do anything for your children to read this garbled mess of pornographic immorality.

So here is some of the crap in this book....
Pgs. 6 & 7 - "SnowAngel: ROB TYLER is in my French class!!!...on Friday we have to do "une dialogue" together, I get to ask for a bite of his hot dog...and tonight when I do my homework, I get to fantasize about his summer sausage. *nudge, nudge, wink, wink*"
Page 7: (talking about teacher mr. h) - "did he stare at your b@@bs?..... so watch out. he makes a big deal of being all Christian, but what that means is the he's majorly sexually repressed. whereas I, on the other hand, am not..."
Page 10: Honestly, I can't even bring myself to type the offensive text on this page. Suffice it to say that it has to do w/ talk of orga@m in a language so graphic that it is better suited for a porn publication.
Page 15: "she said he got a total stiffie while they were talking. she said it was hysterical"
Page 59: "WTF"
Page 65: "rob is being a total p#$is-head"
Page 115: "what about mr. h? angela said that's why you got those new jeans, to get him
all hot and bothered..... did he jump your b@nes?"
Page 139: "put on cr@#chless panties and do a lap dance for him"
Page 145: (after discussing the porn site jesus.com)..."jana especially liked the endorsements section, where he gives his lubricant rec in 12 tasty flavors."
Page 151: after discussing getting drunk at a frat party and taking her shirt and bra off..."Holy f&*^...."
Page 165: "F&*^.. did you tell her everything"... "ur not a wh@re"... "just like you're not a lying b!#ch, stay out of my f&*^ing business."
Page 174: (discussing hot tub attire after a male teacher invites her to join him at a residence he is house sitting)... "we haven't even discussed your thong possibilities!"
Page 176: "jana sent pictures.... from that frat party.. she was n@ked from the waist up...subject line was `le$b0 slut'... sh@#, sh@#, SH@#...."
Page 186: "did mr. h talk about your bikini again? did he make any moves when u were in the car together?"
Page 205: "AND he" (Mr. H) "was wearing a speedo, which made it doubly horrific."

Best stuff you could find for your children to read huh? *PUKE*

Just picked up this winner in the Young Adults section of Border's for my about to turn thirteen year old daughter. As defined in the book description the target audience is 13-17. At least the creators of Sex and The City target their show to adults and don't enter it in this category. However the subject matter and crude descriptiveness in this book could have found it's way onto that show. If you don't believe me, pick it up at the store and see if you would be willing to read pages 10-11 aloud to a group of junior high girls'.(although doing so would probably subject you to arrest) It's bad enough the pressures on young girls' to be sexualized everywhere they look, but it would be nice if we could turn them loose in the literature for kid's; especially when the book jacket tells us of the author's credentials in writing for young people. Perhaps Larry Flynt might have a place for Ms. Myracle in his Letter's to the editor section.

A perfect book for morons destined to drop out of school at 15 stoned and pregnant. If that's your aspiration for your kids, by all means buy this book for them. This book has no redeeming value what-so-ever; I tossed our copy (I'm ashamed that I didn't look more closely when my daughter bought it) in the recycling bin after my daughter came to me suggesting that, perhaps, it wasn't appropriate for her. She was right. It's not appropriate for anyone. It is trash.

In the future, robot archaeologists will be sifting through the rubble of a long dead human civilization, patiently searching for the ultimate cause of mankind's extinction. After sifting through the remains of our fallen society, searching through libraries and the streets of ghost towns and the insides of long-dead computers, they will eventually find the horrific shout that set off the avalanche that would destroy us.

They will find TTYL.

It will be the first time a robot weeps.

Parents should be strongly cautioned about allowing young girls to read this book. The characters are great at supporting each other as friends, but the author turns normal teen life into an X-rated and vulgar expose. I can't recommend this book for any girl or woman. What appears to be cute on the outside is very ugly on the inside.

This is NOT a book for most 13 year olds. My 16 year old saw my 13 yo reading it and took it away from her. She told me how disgusting it was and I have to agree. What a disappointment from this author whose previous tween works were so enjoyed.

The opitomy of sexualizing our youth, what at joke. Good luck justifying this garbage.