#619
Title: I Am Number Four
Author: Pittacus Lore [James Frey & Jobie Hughes]
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2010
440 pages
Audiobook
A poorly constructed and internally inconsistent bit of schlock brought to you by James Frey and his indentured writing lackey, in Frey's writing factory. I read the book before knowing this, and thought that it had a good idea with almost cynical execution--the undertone is that you're a fool for paying for it, ca-CHING. Now I understand that I read it correctly. See "James Frey’s Fiction Factory" and the New York Times review "Teenage Wastelands."
The audiobook narrator is overly and soppily dramatic and the voice characterizations are annoying--the nasal nerd, e.g.
A poorly constructed and internally inconsistent bit of schlock brought to you by James Frey and his indentured writing lackey, in Frey's writing factory. I read the book before knowing this, and thought that it had a good idea with almost cynical execution--the undertone is that you're a fool for paying for it, ca-CHING. Now I understand that I read it correctly. See "James Frey’s Fiction Factory" and the New York Times review "Teenage Wastelands."
The audiobook narrator is overly and soppily dramatic and the voice characterizations are annoying--the nasal nerd, e.g.
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