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| Title | : | Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp (Youth in Revolt #1) |
| Author | : | C.D. Payne |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Broadway Books trade paperback edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 512 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2001 by Broadway Books (first published August 1st 1993) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Young Adult. Humor. Coming Of Age |
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Six months in the life of the world's most dangerous teenager. Youth in Revolt is the journals of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, deal with his divorced parents, and lose his virginity result in his transformation from an unassuming fourteen-year-old to a modern youth in open revolt. As his family splinters, worlds collide, and the police block all routes out of town, Nick must cope with economic deprivation, homelessness, the gulag of the public schools, a competitive Type-A father, murderous canines (in triplicate), and an inconvenient hair trigger on his erectile response—all while vying ardently for the affections of the beauteous Sheeni Saunders, teenage goddess and ultimate intellectual goad.Itemize Books Supposing Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp (Youth in Revolt #1)
| Original Title: | Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp |
| ISBN: | 0385481969 (ISBN13: 9780385481960) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Youth in Revolt #1 |
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Ratings: 4.02 From 9129 Users | 878 ReviewsWrite Up Epithetical Books Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp (Youth in Revolt #1)
This is really a peculiar read.It's the journal of Nick Twisp, a manipulative, cynical, sex-obsessed youth whose erstwhile (I'm using that word because the author likes it so much) good behavior is succombing to the adolescent prime imperative of losing one's virginity. He hones in on his new amour Shinee, who is willing, experienced and cooperative, though enigmatically distant and drifting. Things get in the way, obstacles made of arbitrary parental actions and decisions, space, timing, his"Nick," she said, when I had finished, "six months ago you were just another brownnosing honor student. What happened?"What happened was Nick fell in love lust with Sheeni, and would do anything, ANYTHING to be by her side get into her pants. Anything may or may not include lying, cheating, screwing over his friends, trickery, forgery, transvestism, doping another's drinks, grand theft auto, vandalism, becoming a fugitive from justice, and so many more offenses it would take nearly 500 pages to
A little of Youth in Revolt's narrator, 14-year-old Nick Twisp, goes a long way, so it's a calculated risk for author Payne to set his main character's hyper-articulate, sex-obsessed voice loose over 500 mammoth pages. It pays off, though, as Youth in Revolt ultimately proves itself to be adolescent turmoil told on an epic (and epically funny) scale. While the overarching story deals with Nick's pursuit of the beautiful and elusive (and sadistic, in the way only beautiful and elusive women can
Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp By Brianna WiemannYouth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp is an hilarious coming of age novel about growing up. Nick Twisp, a thirteen, turning fourteen year old, writes in his journal everyday, and throughout his writings, he takes us on an six month adventure of his life, revolting through being an youth. Nick questions things like sexual desire, girls, whether or not he likes his stepdad, going through puberty, and life in general. Its a very
Youth in Revolt had some funny moments here and there, but mostly it was just painfully crude, pretentious and annoying. I come across "comedy" YA novels like this from time to time, and they're sort of a hit or miss when it comes to how actually witty and creative they happen to be. More often than not, they're just vulgar and bizarre. A pseudo-intellectual fourteen-year-old boy trying to impress a girl who's out of his league for I'm sure you can guess what reason, well, it really isn't the
Curious about the movie of the same name, I figured I'd give the audio book of "Youth in Revolt" a chance.Maybe it's the audio book format, but the story of Nick Twisp wasn't one that had me hurrying back or eager to continue to follow his exploits in the next books in the series. Nick is your average 14 year old teenager who is obsessed with sex and will do anything to try and rid himself to gain a girlfriend. During a summer vacation, he meets Sheeni Saunders, who he spends a week with and
Curious about the movie of the same name, I figured I'd give the audio book of "Youth in Revolt" a chance.Maybe it's the audio book format, but the story of Nick Twisp wasn't one that had me hurrying back or eager to continue to follow his exploits in the next books in the series. Nick is your average 14 year old teenager who is obsessed with sex and will do anything to try and rid himself to gain a girlfriend. During a summer vacation, he meets Sheeni Saunders, who he spends a week with and
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