Two Wills Are Better Than One

Didn't I recently just lament how two people can write a novel? Well, I am going to eat my hat because in this novel, "Will Greyson, WIll Grayson," having two points of views worked perfectly to its advantage. It's a story of two teenage boys named Will Grayson, and how they both meet in a very strange circumstance, and how they both grow wiser after they do. I heard about this book because on Band Of Thebes, a lot of gay authors named this among their favorite books of 2011. And they were all right, because I thought this was  a thought provoking book which had me laughing, crying, and contemplating about life. What I loved about this is how two points of view crashed, and that was when I thought having two voices/two authors worked. John Green's Will Grayson is a teenage straight boy who has a gay boy best friend. Weird, but out of the two Wills I preferred him. He had a smart self-deprecating tone that was hilarious and I loved how he was the "straight man" for his gay best friend's dramatic shenanigans. David Levithan's Will is a bit more serious, a gay teenager who is depressed, and trying to figure out his place in the world. It just reinforces how much life is a struggle for everyone, and we have all been through that. Sexual Orientation is sich a non-event the younger generation, and this book shows that. I really recommend this book, especially to younger teenagers. But for older gay men like us, it's as much of a treat!

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