Ryan Dean West is a piece of poo through out nearly the whole book. I mean maybe 90% of the way through we finally seen character growth and I enjoyed him but that other 90% the other 400 pages was a total let down. 
 Okay so I'm going to start with the positives: 
 - The last 10 pages were semi okay Lets just say I wasn't rolling my eyes at everything Ryan Dean said 
 - Had LGBT themes 
 - The cartoons 
 - Joey, Wingers gay best friend is a fantastic character and I really enjoyed him. 
 - Some parts made me laugh 
 So that's the 5 things I liked about this book... I tried to think of more but honestly I couldn't. 
 Negatives 
 - Handled particular heavy themes ridiculously 
 - Repetitiveness 
 - Constant talking about how he never swears, only in his mind. There was 10+ sentences that was basically this quote: "Okay, well . . . yeah, I didn't really say "Shut the fuck up," because I honestly don't cuss. But I wanted to." 
 - 20+ sentences that were Ryan Dean calling himself a loser when he's obviously not and he knows that. I can't even say loser anymore It's no long a word just strange sounds. 
 - I honestly do cuss and Fuck you Ryan Dean you shitty friend. 
 - Ryan Dean is mean. He is mean to the school "Bully" who doesn't really do anything wrong (view spoiler)[ I thought Chas was an excellent character, he teased but so did everyone else. I felt Winger was plain rude and a dog. He got with his girlfriend and then feed the boy pee. Why? What did Chas do to you? Peer pressure you to play poker and have a beer? It's high school suck it up princess and say no or use those "big balls" you like to brag about to say no or lag them in if you really cared that much. (hide spoiler)] 
 - The constant talk of how hot girls are. 
 - Repetitiveness 
 - The constant talk of balls 
 - The constant talk of pee 
 - repetitiveness oh did I already say repetitiveness? well I'll say it again Repetitiveness. 
 - No explanations 
 This story is the story of Ryan Deans 11th year in a rich boarding school, him making friends, getting a girl friend and needing to pee. There are some really funny lines in this book and it is really easy to read. 
 I couldn't DNF it because I felt like I was reading the equivalent of butter. Like when you accidentally turn over to day time TV and you don't really want to watch a re-run of The Nanny again but it's just easier to watch it then change the channel that was this book to me I flew through it. 
 We're in a boarding school for rich kids that play sport and make crude and offensive jokes. Ryan Dean contently spoke about how he was cool with Joey being gay and he had a gay best friend but being Gay wasn't a bad thing and he could be alone with him because being gay doesn't make you attracted to everyone. 
 Now don't get me wrong I felt Ryan was good to Joey, I think Joey was the only person Ryan was actually nice too and I understand that he was really accepting I just hated him having to remind us that he wasn't gay and that being friends with Joey didn't make him gay because again REPETITION. 
 I simultaneously hated and really loved the ending at the same time. The ending nearly made me bump this review to 3 stars but then I remembered how fucking annoying this kid was the other 400 pages. 
 Okay the ending (view spoiler)[ I knew Joey was going to be dead. To be honest I thought someone was going to die as soon as Winger got with Annie because where else could the "plot" go now? But killing off Joey really annoyed me. 
 Yes I was sad! Joey was fantastic and funny and I want a book with Joey as our MC. I felt killing him was just a plot device to finally give Winger the character development he needed. 
 He grew up because of this trauma and it impacted the reader. How many of you guys picked this up because you'd heard review mention the ending and want to know what happened? I know that's what hooked me in. (hide spoiler)]