I am kicking myself because I was under the impression a friend with good taste had liked this book, so I bought it. When I started immediately hating it I asked her what she liked about it and she was like, "Huh? I don't usually like Nicholls." This is all her fault! Us is unpleasant, itchy, unfunny, and the writing is mediocre. My immediate thought when reading was: "I am nothing out of reading this."