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Ready, Okay

Adam Cadre

Hardcover | Pages: 389 pages

Rating: 4.37 | 200 Users | 24 Reviews

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Title	:	Ready, Okay
Author	:	Adam Cadre
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 389 pages
Published	:	July 25th 2000 by HarperCollins
Categories	:	Young Adult. Novels. Literature. American

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So, post-college, I found this book in the YA section of my local library. I read it and fell in love. My roommate then read it and she fell in love. I re-read it, she re-read it, etc. Somehow, I manage to forget the title and the author and in the subsequent ten years or so, I keep searching the internet for some clue that will lead me back to this book.

Then, lo and behold, in the dingy aisles of a large dollar store in Middlebury, VT this past Christmas, I find twenty hardback editions! I bought five (Adam Cadre, if you are reading this, msg me and I'd be happy to send you a check as I imagine you are getting no royalties from that sale).

Anyway, I just read it for (I think) the third time.

This novel is the satire that me and my high schools would have written if our lives had been slightly more disaffected and suburban. It is the literary complement to the amazing "Veronica Mars" too.

The basic plot: a wise-ass, super intelligent kid has found a position for himself in the delicate ecosystem of high school. It requires him to be a sort of a proud dork, an emissary between social groups and terminally sarcastic. He comes from a family that has been through a lot and he is attracted, unsurprisingly, to a girl down the street who he thinks represents utter normalcy.

Of course he is wrong and a lot happens to drive the book toward a tragic ending (which is heavily foreshadowed from page one).

It's important to remember that this is a form of satire and while the plot points may sound cliched, two things really set it apart: 1) the characters represent fully formed people. There is a tendency to think of high schoolers as absent the same personality traits we observe in adults. Yes, kids are still developing etc, but some of them are as big of an asshole at 16 as they will be at 52 and Cadre captures that well. 2) The narrative voice. Devastatingly funny, insightful and clueless all at the same time.

I can not say enough about this book and yet I think this review falls somewhat flat. Trust me. Just read it. I have a few extra copies.

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Original Title:	Ready, Okay!
ISBN:	0060195584 (ISBN13: 9780060195588)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.37 From 200 Users | 24 Reviews

Write-Up Of Books Ready, Okay

I've read better books, but I loved this book nonetheless. It's a really charming book. Also hilarious.

I didn't care for the book as I was reading it at first. The character development was exhausting, But it needed to be. It made me whole heartedly feel each emotion. This is a book that will stick with me for a lifetime. Wow. Just wow.

I first read this nearly 12 years ago, on Rowyns recommendation, but just recently came across it online and found that it has a hugely rewritten second edition now. (Heres what the author wrote about rewriting it.) So I decided to give it another read, and it does seem very new, though much of that may just be due to how long its been since the first time. Its a bit of an emotional rollercoaster between funny and tragic, and I find myself very attached to the characters, which just makes the

Excerpt from Ready, Okay!After I finished brushing my teeth, the clock on my nightstand said it was past midnight. 12.03 am, to be precise. That meant it was Saturday afternoon in East Asia.Thats a really exciting amount of detail about the whole process. It makes you think youre there watching someone brush their teeth and observe a clock on a nightstand. Kadri really knows how to paint a picture with words. The great thing is that he always paints the whole picture, leaving nothing to the

This book is an emotional roller coaster. One minute you're laughing at the narrator, next minute your heart is pounding, next minute you can't sit still, next minute you're screaming and the next minute you're crying. Then it starts again. There are few books with the power that this one has, regarding school shootings - it seems like such a hot topic now but this book was written years ago and was limited in print and is currently out of print - it is very tricky to get your hands on - but it

I found this book though a "what is this book" thread, so unfortunately i knew how it ended going in. Oh, sure, you find out in the first sentence that it ends terribly, but I knew HOW... (view spoiler)[Specifically,that Allen's brother does a school shooting. But it didn't tell me a name, and I DID honestly spend a while not being positive which brother. Sure, Krieg is awful, but Jerem spends all his time holed up playing violent video games and listening to his brother's psychopathic rants.

Yep.... just gonna sit here and sob. Actual review to come once I can see through my tears.Ok, ok. I've collected myself. So I read the first edition of this book when I was a freshman or sophomore in high school. And it was easily my favorite book of all time for years and years. I reread it a few times and I am not typically a rereader. So when Adam let me know he was actually doing a complete rewrite of this book and releasing it as a second edition, I was nervous... if I'm being honest. But