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oooh! WELL DONE BARTLEBOOM! :) you said what I'm trying to convey too! It would have been better if you included it in the review, but never mind! So I'll give you a 5 for these last comments!
In short! A little lightness in life doesn’t hurt! It can make you reflect as well!
Says someone who has overthought so much that saying "I'm heavy" would be an understatement! :D

I keep saying that you are giving JackF a responsibility that Brizzi never took on! Then if you are all intellectuals who at 14 rejected anything that wasn't committed literature, that's not for me to know, but it seems to me that everyone went to read "La solitudine dei numeri primi" (which I haven't done yet because the plot already unsettles me, I can't judge the writing style, but from the first few pages I flipped through... well, I don’t know... at this point I prefer Brizzi... even if I think the genre is different... anyway, I will read it to be objective... I read "Tre metri sopra il cielo" and now "TWILIGHT" to critique the rampant phenomena... so...).

Anyway, if teachers make students read Jack F in school, it's because they think students can't afford anything else (it's sad, but take it out on the teachers... not on the book... one should read everything, in my opinion) and I can't do anything about it, but I keep saying that a teenager is not necessarily an idiot at the mercy of the world! Sure, one has fewer certainties, but they have a brain!

I have TOTAL contempt for high school teachers! If they recommended something, I would read it because I had to, but I couldn't care less about their judgment on a book; I didn't care about being guided by them in any direction because, since I wasn't an amoeba (from Bob's descriptions, it seems like one is a lost idiot as a teenager), I had the foundations to understand if what they were offering could be useful to me or not, even if my respect for them was zero!

Then I don't understand why everything should be universalized. I still haven't managed to read "On the Road" by Kerouac, and I don't write a review to say it... I don't give it NC as a 1 or 2 (I've started it three times and got to 3/4) [anyway, I'm not referring negatively to Bartle with what I've said, I understood what they meant]... it's not guaranteed that you will always like a book, or that you are always ready to receive it... no matter what genre it is!

The age range story is really limiting in my opinion! I have never thought that way, and I read "Il Piccolo Principe" around 18 (and I agree with what dctgaio said about it)... I read Jack F many times from 14 to 18, and each time I found something that related to what I was going through at that moment and hadn’t noticed... now I might not find anything, but if I judge it, I don’t do it just based on what it gives me today, but on what it gave me at 14, and of course now with the awareness I have, I could downplay it (but I don't think I've ever made it seem too trivial)...

@telespallabob
I was never required to read these books in school. I chose to read Jack F... and The Little Prince on my own; in high school, we were made to read Camus, Tolstoy, and a lot of beautiful classic stuff, or not... but that’s beside the point.
I say that if someone wants a light read at 14, Jack Frusciante fits perfectly! If everyone here feels frustrated by textual analysis (which they would download from Studenti.it), that’s another matter... and I always write this when discussing school books because to me, the disgust comes from that.
As a teenager, I wasn’t a foolish being manipulated by society, just like many of my friends, and I hope you weren't either... I was someone who had a thousand problems about everything, a thousand mental considerations about what was wrong, trying to become better.
Now, I haven’t adapted to the crappy life of the average over-20, yet I read Jack Frusciante and found something good at 14... I don’t know, I think you should come and defrustrate yourselves with these books WITHOUT EXPECTATIONS when there are others out there that truly deserve to be pulled down... this Jack F is just ONE perspective on adolescence!
I never liked the Red Hot Chili Peppers that much; the "Parish Punk" story got on my nerves because it’s such a sad definition, etc... but among the books that talked about teenagers, that was one that I could relate to... I wasn’t expecting to find a book that told exactly what I thought, and in fact, Jack F doesn't do that, but it did spark some thoughts for me, both positive and negative... like chatting with a friend, a peer who shares their thoughts (Brizzi wasn't that).
Then I don’t know... I just don’t know.

@bartle I’m not angry... when I express my opinion, I do it firmly, and sometimes it may seem like I am, but I'm not :) If I were really to get upset, it would be about completely different books, for sure.

Sorry, but are we joking?
No, no, no >_<
Why does everyone always have to act superior!
"Jack Frusciante Is Out of the Group" was written by a very young Brizzi, who I don't think expected such success... sure, it may not be the most beautiful work ever written, but as a teen book, I find it enjoyable and it has some significant merits! After all, it's what was said for half the review (not well, I must tell the truth) and then contradicted in the funny last part!
I misunderstood it at 17 because I had reached Alex's age and realized I was better than him, so, as a good teenager feeling herself, I said it wasn't much of a book as it's often said here... but then after a while I reread it and realized I had been wrong!
When you talk about caricature, I think it reflects what one is at that age and it’s described well, in my opinion!
Almost an adult body, but a child’s mind... you feel like the masters of the world... now when I see high school girls strutting around, I can't help but laugh at the thought that I could feel somehow threatened by them because they were very different from me and appreciated for their behavior!... then the flaws in the book are there, but for me they are different... also, the way it has been presented around, as "the love story without sex" to me trivializes it because it seems like this whole world has to be based on that (I read a book either because there's plenty of it or in one where there is none at all... is that the measure now?). Then, well... Aidi has always annoyed me, I have to admit... but for me, the beauty of the book lies elsewhere, in the way things are explained, in the way life snapshots are presented as flashes, which are very honest and true in my opinion... at 15 I was pissed off and thought many high school people were "a mass of asexuals who were neither nice nor intelligent"... I saw those who considered themselves politicians at 16, those who flaunted money as if they earned it (children of rotary club members!) and I couldn't help but mock them... I had read "The Catcher in the Rye" and was fascinated by it... and what's wrong now with "The Little Prince"... is that boring too? I don’t know...
It certainly won't be a book to find hidden truths (from three and a half, for its genre even four, it’s not going to go to universal category!), but I am proud to have grown up with it and not with "Three Meters Below the Ground" or "I Want Tea"... and then if you write a review like that without even giving a rating... better not to do it, or you’ll just be wasting time.
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I haven't seen this... anyway, go check out the two Zeitgest.

Come on guys.. I understand that you can't monopolize an entire school year with just one book, I get that it's boring to make summaries and analyze texts about this stuff, but "I Promessi Sposi" can't be downgraded to a series Z book!
Pleaseeee... the mere fact that it played a mega-important role in shaping the language we speak today says a lot!
And come on... there's a lot of nonsense out there, but that's everywhere...
I'll give it a 5 to raise the average even though I would really give it a 3 and a half!

I quote Portland ahahah... relax, it can't be heard, but I have to admit they've put in some effort this year, there are a few songs that are up to the level of worldwide pop stars... then again, the fact that worldwide pop stars often get on my nerves is another story... ahahahah

mmm... to be found :)

nooo ska-p! they remind me of my 14 years :') nice memories even if I would never listen to them again now... Cute review.

A friend of mine had mentioned it to me, especially because she was cracking up over the phrase you included at the end of the review... actually, from how she described it, it seemed more like a trash film than a documentary, so I didn't consider it.
Anyway, I don’t think I can bring myself to watch it... I don’t know... time will tell.