She'd expected a wealth of knee-jerking discoveries about these girls. A glimpse into the hidden brilliant-ness of what made them so powerful. But they just seemed like normal, average girls And I know exactly why. While I liked the fact that Bree was nerdy and loved reading, I didn’t have anything else in common with her in ways of attitude. Like I said, the entire synopsis of the book is about how she’s planning on changing herself to suit other people more. And that, I actually really hate the idea of. She hides the fact that she loves reading, whereas I’m the sort who proudly talks about it nonstop. Granted, I was a bit awed at her determination to carry the entire idea out, but other than that, every single decision she made had me shaking my head slightly.

Bree tested the boundaries of how much I can feel sympathetic toward an unlikable character. She came from an extremely wealthy family and complained endlessly about it. Her "uncaring" parents seemed to care a great deal about her. And, miserable as she was about being unpopular and uninteresting, she is able to change everything overnight with a haircut and makeup. Right. The Manifesto on How to be Interesting" is an very inconsistent, but ultimately very entertaining book. I could argue that I'm probably not in the target group for this novel, but after reading so many contemporary YA books with a boy at its center (Looking for Alaska, Kind of a Funny Story, Spectacular Now, The Beginning of Everything), I almost got the feeling that books needed to be set in the dystopian future to focus more on a girl (Hunger Games, Divergent, 5th Wave with TFIOS as an exception). So I'm glad that this one focuses on a girl.

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Bree befriended the popular girls and hung out with them a lot. Then, one day, she was getting ready with one of them; Jassmine. She accidentally saw Bree's scars but instead of laughing at her, she was really kind and caring. A few hours later, Bree slept with her boyfriend. WHY?? Jassmine was being such a good friend and she just slept with her boyfriend because it was part of her little experiment?! How can you do something like that?

Lines like this appeared throughout the whole book and they made me just really angry. I mean, what does the author want to tell us with these lines? That not everyone is beautiful? What kind of message is that?Full of wisdom, heartache, and honesty, this tops John Green in my book. * Never Judge a Book by Its Cover blog * Bree sighed, bored of this evening, bored of her life. Tired of it always feeling like sludge to wade through. The Manifesto is one of my favourite books that I've read this year. It was funny, dark, perfectly paced and all over relatable and if that hasn't sold you yet, I read it all in one night! The last time I did that was when reading The Fault in Our Stars and we all know how great a book that is!

I read this a year ago and my review was long but crappy.I decided that I won't rewrite it because right now I don't have much time but I wanted to state that even though this book was entertaining(and I really enjoy reading about boarding or prep schools)and the writing was good enough though not special the book was just too cliché,it was not special or original,it seemed partly pointless,the characters were mostly there to exist and had no personality,the MC made me shake my head myriads of times with her stupid and bad thought out decisions and even though the message was good it was very indirect and sometimes too direct and basically like a cliché movie which was partly like Mean Girls and partly like other girly teen movies.The cover was gorgeous but that really does not count.Lastly teacher-student relationships are ,in my opinion,wrong and usually fake in a way(platonic is the word) and I'm glad that at the end Bree realized that even though it took her a lot of time. So what did I think? From my high ranking you can guess that I enjoyed this book a lot. And I did. But it still isn't a book I would recommend everybody. First of all there is a big trigger warning for selfharm. And then again I guess you have to like this kind of story and they way it is told. I thought it was brilliant and didn't feel that connected to a book, not just to the characters but to the whole book in a while. I love it. I really think people overuse the word love and I try not to. But that just sums it up so well. I love it. And I know that not everybody will like this type of humor. Or the moral aspects of this book. I didn't like everything that happened in this book or agreed with everything. But this doesn't change my opinion at all. I think if you like book with a great writing style who talk about serious topics without drowning you in depression, this is the book.

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The ending of this book was really quite dramatic. I mean, the events leading up to it were dramatic enough, and some of them were slightly uncomfortable to read about, I must say. But they WERE interesting to read about, so I guess the point of “the manifesto on how to be interesting” worked after all. And that’s why I appreciated this book – even though I hardly agreed with anything from it, I still found it interesting to read about. In addition, this book includes a slightly inappropriate relationship, which I'm not sure makes Bree the best role model to students nowadays. Nevertheless, Bourne's book is a key protest against the popularity scale we see around us. Through Bree, she makes us happy about who we are and shows why we should not change for the world around us. Yet, perhaps this teen idealism is part of what made this book so cliché. With this book being set in a school, the teen culture was obviously really strong. The way people act, the groups that form in school, the workload – everything seemed exactly the same as when I was in school myself. Which again, impressed me, because every time I’ve read a book set in a school so far it’s been a bit cheesy and full of stereotypes. But in this case, it felt real and I could relate to the experiences there. But when she’s told she needs to start living a life worth writing about, The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting is born. Six steps on how to be interesting. Six steps that will see her infiltrate the popular set, fall in love with someone forbidden and make the biggest mistake of her life. Apparently I'm boring. A nobody. But that's all about to change. Because I am starting a project. Here. Now. For myself. And if you want to come along for the ride then you're very welcome.

Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000293 Openlibrary_editionThere were far too many sexual references in this book. Now, I understand sex and the like are parts of teenage life, however this book contains way too many jokes, references and even a detailed description of Bree's encounter with Hugo. I don't read a book to find out about all of that; if I wanted detailed descriptions I would have read 50 Shades of Grey.