Aug 19 2008
This is the one where I dance, recover, repeat.
I breezed through Alasdair Duncan’s Dance Recover Repeat this past weekend. [Amazon]
The book was classifed as “Young Adult” and I went into it expecting to read a book that was written for teens…but it was dirtier than a few of the Chuck Palahniuk I’ve read.
The story is about a high school kid and all the gay sex that he has. And all the weed that he smokes. And all the E he drops.
ZZZZZZZ.
It’s a quick read, but not really worth your time. The main reason I thought this book had some promise is because it was published by MTV and shares that publisher with pretty decent reads like Arthur Nersessian’s The Fuck Up {Amazon] and Stephen Chobosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower [Amazon].
There was so much potential for this book; Duncan used emails, internet chats, fantasies and notbook entries of his main character’s. Yet it never really did the job of telling anything more than the superficial story of a teenager with angst and a high sex drive.
I’d try to point out the positives here, but unfortunately for Duncan, his novel Dance Recover Repeat (which is a title, btw, that is screaming, “PUNCTUATE ME!!!”) does not have enough positives to fill a paragraph.
If you’re really desperate to read this book, I’d say don’t buy it. Just give me a ring and I’ll let you borrow it.
What I’m Reading Next: Not sure.
@cheapblueguitar you leaving?? Or just singing?
Can I make some suggestions? My grandma gave me The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and it is quite good. If you want a good novel with a gay theme, I’m a fan of Making History by Stephen Fry. I finished The Kid last week per your suggestion. I really enjoyed it, found that I had some similar opinions, and it made me excited to be a gay Oregonian who will want to adopt someday.