Twelve

I liked this book even though I was a bit unsure.
The main character is White Mike a teenage drug dealer in New York.
This is a story of the build up to a New Years party.
White Mike and all his peers are all rich young white kids
The party begins in good spirits but ends in tradegy. Easy to read, different from my normal choice of book. ( )

I'd seen the movie and hadn't thought the movie was that bad. Sure, it needed improvements, but I didn't realize just how much improvement had been made on the source material. Putting it bluntly, this book sucked. This was the kind of book that makes you want to, in a line from the television series Friends, "push my finger through my eye, into my brain, and swirl it around."

Yes, it was THAT bad.

The writing style was choppy at best. The characters were undeveloped. The topic could have been interesting, but the writer seemed to believe that his purpose was not to develop a story. He just seemed to throw words and phrases onto the page without any regard for what they did to or for the story.

I've read better from elementary aged children doing their first creative writing lessons. At least they understand some writing basics. I guess that McDonell never had anyone explain to him that a story has to have something to keep the attention of the readers. Or someone explained it to him and he just didn't care. Honestly, it seems like it was probably the latter.

I couldn't finish the book because it was just that bad. I don't understand how anyone makes it more than halfway. The only people I would recommend this book to are people that I think deserve to feel the agony of being tortured. ( )

This book completely grabbed me from the first few pages. The way it is written allows a very sharp first person view on the world of drug dealers and their abusers. Things quickly go south for the lead character, and you literally believe you are in NYC going along with White Mike and his cronies.

Very well written, and wonderfully executed. I look forward to the movie that is being done about it starring Chace Crawford from Gossip Girl. ( )

Great way to see the life of a drug dealer and how crazy things could turn when drugs are used. It only takes one crazy guy to kill a whole lot of young people. Also shows what people will do for drugs. ( )

Twelve is Nick McDonell‘s debut novel. It was recently made into a movie.

Plot:
White Mike is 17, good-looking, rich and very intelligent. He decided to take a year off between high school and college and spends it dealing drugs to rich kids. But in the days before New Year’s everything seems to fall apart.

Twelve is a good book, made even more impressive by the fact that Nick McDonell was only 17 himself when he wrote it. But its author’s age is not the only thing that commends it.

Read more at my blog: http://kalafudra.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/twelve-nick-mcdonell/ ( )