I'm quite torn on how to rate this book. As far as the narrative's quality, it deserves one star. It was pretty awful: bad dialogue, utterly predictable, and just absurd at some points. That being said, however, I loved reading this book. I spend too much time reading "literature." Reading this convinced me that I should throw in some complete trash from time to time. It's refreshing to read horrible prose, apparently (hence the added star). I read this out loud to Lauren and at dull moments or whenever some character uttered something abhorrently cliche, I took it upon myself to embellish the story (usually adding some form of adolescent potty humor). Occasionally, I said something that bothered my sweet wife. She asked me repeatedly to just read the book. Then, as I was "just reading" the story, she'd get mad at me for saying something ridiculous. That's how awesome this book is. It was full of stuff that was way worse than anything I could come up with. Good for Michele Ashman Bell for getting published, it must have been a christmas miracle. ( )