ttyl (Talk to You Later-Internet Girls)
by Lauren Myracle
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Author: Lauren MyracleEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-01
ISBN: 0810987880
Number of pages: 234
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Book Reviews of ttyl (Talk to You Later-Internet Girls)
Book Review: Ever wonder why teens today are the way they are?
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm happy that I finished high school before cellphone/iPods/sidekicks became commonplace among teens. I can understand using chatspeak here and there - when you're sending a quick IM to someone with your cell or some such, or when you're having a IM convo with a friend. I enjoy talking via IM to some of my friends... but I've NEVER talked the way the teens in the book do. When I am talking to one of my friends, I use proper English, they use proper English, we all understand, we have intellectual conversations, and everyone goes home happy.
This book is about nothing. Nothing at all. Great books come in different forms. You have sweeping epics like Dune, chilling horrors like Stephen King's novels, or even books that have no grand/epic storyline of heroes vs villains like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' (one of the BEST books I have ever read!). There are so many wonderful books out there that stimulate and nurture the minds of teens and adults alike.
This is the equivalent to me sitting on the toilet after a greasy dinner of a Big Mac and fries, and struggling with the aftereffects of all that fat on my digestive system. Except that I don't even like McD's because their food is too greasy. This book is the equivalent to fast food - it does nothing good for you and actually harms you.
With society the way it is today, do we really need a book that is 'dumbed down' to fit chatspeak? Is it any wonder that the current teenager generation is barely literate and many of them have no real skills for the world, much less a decent grasp on the English language? Don't our teachers already have a hard time teaching kids whose attention spans have been all but destroyed due to chatspeak and Ebonics and other lazy, retarded ways of communicating?
I feel bad for the few smart/sane teens who are surrounded by a sea of idiotic peers who would rather be texting (and 'sexting') on their cell phones then paying attention in class so they can become productive members of society?
If you don't give a damn about your braincells, then go ahead and read this book, and say bye bye to your IQ points. Otherwise, go to the library and pick up a good, classic novel. Your librarian can and should be able to help you find a good novel that is appropriate/relevant to your interests. Personally, I recommend...
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Dune
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Misery
The Past through Tomorrow
Oliver Twist
The Golden Compass
The Good Earth
The woman who wrote this book needs to be beaten around her head with a big, hardcover copy of this book. Personally, if I had to write a book like this, using just chatspeak and retarded tweener talk, I'd hang myself before I went on such an endeavour. I value my brain cells too much.
Also, if you're a parent, please, please, please refrain from buying your kid stuff they don't need. Do they REALLY need a cellphone? A iPhone? A sidekick? They may whine about it and tell you you're a mean parent for not buying them these overpriced toys, but it will do everyone - parents, teens, and society as a whole - better in the long run. For their birthday or Christmas, give them a book - a good one. Or a puzzle.
Summary of ttyl (Talk to You Later-Internet Girls)
The runaway bestseller now in paperback!An epistolary novel for the 21st century, this sharp, funny, and true-to-life breakout hit about friendship is told entirely in instant messages. And Internet-savvy teens have fallen in love with flirty Angela (SnowAngel), moody Maddie (mad maddie), and good girl Zoe (zoegirl) and their frank perceptions about a tumultuous tenth-grade semester. Now perfectly priced for its audience, the paperback is being released alongside Myracle's brand-new hardcover novel, Rhymes with Witches. AUTHOR BIO: In addition to ttyl, Lauren Myracle is the author of three other novels, including her latest, Rhymes with Witches. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College and lives in Colorado.
Audacious author Lauren Myracle accomplishes something of a literary miracle in her second young-adult novel, ttyl (Internet instant messaging shorthand for "talk to you later"), as she crafts an epistolary novel entirely out of IM transcripts between three high-school girls.
Far from being precious, the format proves perfect for accurately capturing the sweet histrionics and intimate intricacies of teenage girls. Grownups (and even teenage boys) might feel as if they've intercepted a raw feed from Girl Secret Headquarters, as the book's three protagonists--identified by their screen names "SnowAngel," "zoegirl," and "mad maddie"--tough their way through a rough-and-tumble time in high school. Conversations range from the predictable (clothes, the delicate high-school popularity ecosystem, boys, boys in French class, boys in Old Navy commercials, etc.) to the the jarringly explicit (the girls discuss female ejaculation: "some girls really do, tho. i read it in our bodies, ourselves") and the unintentionally hilarious (Maddie's IM reduction of the Christian poem "Footprints"--"oh, no, my son. no, no, no. i was carrying u, don't u c?").
But Myracle's triumph in ttyl comes in leveraging the language-stretching idiom of e-mail, text messaging, and IM. Reaching to express themselves, the girls communicate almost as much through punctuation and syntactical quirks as with words: "SnowAngel: 'cuz--drumroll, please--ROB TYLER is in my french class!!! *breathes deeply, with hand to throbbing bosom* on friday we have to do "une dialogue" together. i get to ask for a bite of his hot dog.'"
Myracle already proved her command of teenage girl-ness with Kissing Kate, but the self-imposed convention of ttyl allows a subtlety that is even more brilliant. Parents might like reading the book just to quantify how out of touch they are, but teens will love the winning, satisfyingly dramatic tale of this tumultuous trio. (Ages 13 to 17) --Paul Hughes
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