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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  stephxsu | Nov 17, 2009 |  Ttyl is a very good book, but it may be a little mature, like not to bad. It shows you how to have faith in your self and in your friends, i think its a good book, but thats my oppinion and this book i dont think would be recommended for boys. MrFClass | Nov 13, 2009 | TTYL is yet another of those titles that I decided to read primarily because it has been frequently challenged in libraries. From what I can see the challenges are likely based on some sexual discussion and maybe a few bad words. The story is told entirely in instant messages, with all the lingo and abbreviation that entails. The characters are three best friends in high school, each with their own distinct personalities and issues. The book covers obsessive high school crushing, inappropriate teacher interaction, religious searching, and the old standby of betrayal by fickle friends. It all boils down to a fast and trendy book with a true-blue friends-til-the-end message that will likely draw in reluctant readers who find books written in traditional prose too time-consuming. Not my favorite book, but it has its place. (  ) librarymeg | Oct 29, 2009 | Would be helped by a more unique plot to supplement the unique format, and would be greatly enhanced by the use of avatars in the chat or IM sequences. The all-text screennames make it more difficult to quickly tell who is speaking. (  ) LauraLittlePony | Oct 20, 2009 | This book is an amazing book gor girls. It shows what a girls life is all about. If you want to know about a girls life. This is the bok for you. AMAZING BOOK! :D (  ) smilehussey | Oct 14, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Daphne Durham (ISBN 0810987880, Paperback)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 (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:55 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Lauren Myracle’s TTYL is especially fun to read because of its sheer creativity. I’ve never read anything told entirely in instant messages, and once you get past the “Internet speak” (srsly, wat happened 2 the days wen spelling mattered?) you find a charming story in a unique format. I’m very impressed at the way Myracle develops her characters through just IMs. The originality and engagement of the plot fell short—the issues were slow to develop and not discussed as deeply as they could’ve been—but on the whole, TTYL is a satisfying novel for the new teenage girl. This is a great way to get tweens into reading. (