Jesse Andrews Boeken

A powerful and hilarious novel which is both a sheer pleasure to read and a scathing takedown of inequality in the modern world.

Do you have a favorite band? Okay. Good. Unfortunately, it also sucks. And Wes and Corey can tell you exactly how. There is nothing Wes and Corey can’t hate on. Even bands they love. In fact, they are incapable of loving anything without relentlessly figuring out ways to hate it, too. And so when they are sent to a place as soul-crushing as jazz camp—which is populated almost completely by competitive maniacs who are trying to seem chill by talking in Jazz Voice—Wes and Corey hate on it with extreme prejudice. Fortunately, so does a girl named Ash, who may even be a bigger and better hater than the two of them combined. When the three of them run away from camp, start their own band, and go on tour, it seems like a great idea. Except that they are faced with a basically unanswerable question: How can confirmed haters even try to make music that maybe doesn’t suck? The answer takes the form of a catastrophic, hilarious, romantically tangled road trip from Jesse Andrews, bestselling author of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl . You can feel free to hate on it. But you can also love it, too. Because maybe those are kind of the same thing.

Greg Gaines is able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics - until Greg's mother forces him to rekindle his childhood friendship with Rachel. She has been diagnosed with leukemia - cue extreme adolescent awkwardness - but a parental mandate must be obeyed. When she stops treatment, Greg and Earl decide to make a film for her, which turns into the Worst Film Ever Made and becomes a turning point in each of their lives. All at once Greg must abandon invisibility and stand in the spotlight ...