Destroy All Cars
by:
Blake Nelson (author)
From Blake Nelson, a fantastic and topical novel about idealism and finding the ideal girl.James Hoff likes to rant against America's consumerist culture. He also likes to rant against his ex-girlfriend, Sadie, who he feels isn't doing enough to change the world. But just like he can't avoid...
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From Blake Nelson, a fantastic and topical novel about idealism and finding the ideal girl.James Hoff likes to rant against America's consumerist culture. He also likes to rant against his ex-girlfriend, Sadie, who he feels isn't doing enough to change the world. But just like he can't avoid buying things, he also can't avoid Sadie for long. This is a fantastic, funny, sexy, cool masterpiece from one of the best YA writers at work today, an anti-consumerist love story that's all about idealism, in both James's relationship with the world and his relationships with the people around him.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780545104746 (0545104742)
Publish date: May 1st 2009
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Novels,
Humor,
Realistic Fiction,
Environment,
Contemporary,
High School,
Social Issues,
Activism,
Relationships
One of the books A recommends to Rhiannon in Every Day, so I'm interested. :D
Brilliant first half. I haven't read anything as funny or as truly 17-year-old boy in a long time, if ever. The protagonist's voice is 100% pure. The reproductions of James' essays are priceless. That being said, it didn't go anywhere- I didn't feel like he learned much over the course of the book, ...
James Hoff is not an average teenage boy. He likes it that way. James is a bit of a radical whose main goal is to destroy all cars. He believes that cars are what are ruining the earth and that consumer Americans are the cause.James is one of the few people in his school who worries about the enviro...
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