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Jennifer89
June 10th, 2006, 09:03 AM
I can't find the book and don't remember the authors name, but has anyone read it?

I was discussed by this book! For those who havn't read it, there's this girl, and she has three major problems:
1. She vegan
2. She's a virgin
3. A relative named Valantine("V") has moved in: they are the same age, and hate each other.
By the end of the book, she solves each of these "problems" but in an unsavory manor.

Warning: Spoilers
This is how she solves each of her problems:
1. She eats a grilled cheese sandwhich, then begins to eat all dairy. "I've even been allowing myself to eat 'hidden' eggs." She never once explores vegan soy cheese or anything to curve her cravings
2. She (as a senoir in high school, around 17 years old) dates her boss (in his 20's) and has sex with him.
3. She bends almost to her relatives level. She dosn't do drugs (as far as I remember) but they hand out and talk about there love lives and blah blah blah, and the main character tries to skip her gradguation and drops out of college and all of this other junk, because she's sinking to her partying relative's level.

This book is so unmoral, it's not even funny. Leave the problem of her virginity up to debate, but in my opinion, she dosn't nead to loose that. she only wants to loose it because it like the thing to do.

Veganism a problem? Since when? Whenever I miss a grilled cheese sandwhich or have a dream about candy bars, I curve those cravings. She dosn't.

There are better ways to deal with her relative that she never explores.

Grrr, that book just erks me.

chocolatelover
June 10th, 2006, 01:54 PM
umm...when you said "discussed" did you mean "disgusted"?....just wondering, because that kind of confused me....

Kataka
June 10th, 2006, 02:40 PM
I found it on amazon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0763621552/102-3521073-8869761?v=glance&n=283155

The author is Carolyn Mackler

*Sunflower*
June 10th, 2006, 04:49 PM
I saw that book at the library and started reading the back cover. I put it back on the shelf when I got to the part about dreaming about grilled cheeses. After reading what you wrote, it sounds like an awful book, even without the vegan part.

ve-day
June 11th, 2006, 04:26 PM
my best friend got me that book, clearly she didn't read the ending because she KNOWS I'm hardcore. Then again, I don't think she read it... becauese she simply pointed out it said "vegan & virgin" on the front.

Yes, that girl was too uptight, but that ending pissed me off... gave us vegans a bad name, I'm not uptight, I've been pretty chill lately (so chill I didn't study for 2 finals.) Clearly not written by anybody dedicated tyo the cause... just another one of the those people calling me and extremist. :spew: poo.

(oh, but I don't think she actually slept with the guy... it was more like a 2.5 baser.)

NotYet
June 12th, 2006, 12:50 AM
(oh, but I don't think she actually slept with the guy... it was more like a 2.5 baser.)

Ha. That's pretty darn funny.

R

Edit: ve-day, your clowns scare the hell outa me... :-/

Vicky
June 12th, 2006, 12:59 AM
maybe the author just wanted to show that you have to find the golden middle and not be so extreme ?
or maybe you were supposed to get mad at her for being such a bad girl ?

either way, i hate books in teen section :spew:

VeganLoveShark
June 14th, 2006, 05:19 AM
yeah because having ethics is SO extreme. I saw that book too because i liked the title, and then i started reading the part about grilled cheese and got mad. Like people need to hear yet another ex vegan/vegetarian about how hard it was to live without their sadistic food choices.

CountessKerouac
June 14th, 2006, 01:44 PM
Oh, I saw this book in the bookstore. I skimmed it...looked kind of childish, so I didn't buy it.

NotYet
June 14th, 2006, 05:21 PM
yeah because having ethics is SO extreme.

Seriously, why does society find it offensive for people to have morals?

Rebbecca

Jennifer89
June 17th, 2006, 01:03 PM
Yup, I ment disgusted... did I spell it right this time?

I enjoy my morals, and it's hard enough being vegan without some author trying to tell me that veganism is only good for a short amount of time or whatever. I don't know why the author even wrote the book.

I saw another book that she has published while in Books a Million the other day, it's called "The Earth, My Butt and Other Big, Round Things" (or something close to that). I'm interested in how the author bashes morals in this book, but I don't want to get all mad again at the moment and waste a bunch of money, so maybe after I start craving grilled cheese sandwhiches and give up my veganism, loose my virginity and befriend a drug adicted relative, I'll read the other book she wrote.

CountessKerouac
June 19th, 2006, 10:06 PM
^---- Hehe. :lol: :yes: