Review: Blindingly funny & shockingly touching
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2013
Every line is so absolutely funny, bizarre, insightful, touching and simultaneously absurd that I found myself maniacally highlighting line after line until it dawned on me that it would be far simpler to highlight what wasn't any of those things, which was exactly nil, as far as I was concerned.Doug was charmingly naive, blissfully ignorant in a way that only served to remind me how very little and unnecessary many of my griefs and frustrations are; Doug reminds you that insightful people need not be book smart or overly educated and they often far happier for it. His kindness and thoughtful innocence was so delightful that I laughed like the mad hatter the whole time. I loved when he says, "you can't exist on coffee and evil alone, you know." Sooooooooo freaking cute!!!!Stephen is particularly unlikable and something in his bitter sarcasm is someone so familiar to me, to the majority of the human race perhaps, that I found myself caring for him, for his redemption, his evolution.This has got to be one of the most delightfully, hopeful and heartwarming (without being saccharine) that I've had the pleasure in reading in a long time...I can't even remember when I found another book that so balanced cute and funny without falling down the Disney drain of shallow plasticity (not that I don't enjoy those from time to time too lol).Doug and Stephen forever!!! Damn, I wish I wrote down all Doug's observations on the merits of "the gay sex" because they were priceless. Oh, well it's just another excuse to reread it.