The book started out funny, then it went downhill. Once I came to the sordid gay sex scene between a thirty-something year old male and a minor (thirteen, fourteen?), I was done. There's no moral to the story. If the author was out for shock value, then he's got it. If he wanted the world to think that he had it bad, that his life sucked, then he could have just said.... "I came from a dysfunctional family, I moved in with an even-worse family, I had gay sex with mixed feelings about it, my friends were as messed up as I was, and there's nothing I want you to take away from my book."This book came highly recommended by a friend. Now I'm ticked off at my friend.I hated it.