Why We Took the Car
by Wolfgang Herrndorf
Taste attributes: teenadventurecomedydramafastrealisticlinearemotive & stirringcoming of agefish out of water/culture clashunlikely connections
Boxlist takeA fast book, balanced on most other counts. Best if you like pace over patience.
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Pace: fast · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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3.9 / 5
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About This Book
Mike Klingenberg is a troubled fourteen-year-old from a dysfunctional family in Berlin who thinks of himself as boring, so when a Russian juvenile delinquent called Tschick begins to pay attention to him and include Mike in his criminal activities, he is excited--until those activities lead to disaster on the autobahn.
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- Author
- Wolfgang Herrndorf
- Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 248
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- Open Library
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