It’s Kind of a Funny Story
By: Ned Vizzini
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Pages: 444
Published: 2007
Read: January
3 out of 5
It was
strange reading this book after the fact that Vizzini committed suicide in
2013. This book is a fictional story about a teenager who spends 5 days in a psych
hospital. Then at the end of the book, Vizzini shares that he actually spend 5
days in hospital for mental illness in 2004. He wrote the book the month after
getting released. The story itself was good, but I don’t believe a person, that
is supposedly clinically depressed, could be considered cured enough to be
successful in the “real world” after only 5 days. The book also didn’t mention
any group therapy sessions, just fun activities – cards, movies, and art. This
was very unrealistic to me. Furthermore, I don’t think the title was a good
choice, but maybe that was because he was depressed when writing it – because it
wasn’t very funny. I believe It’s Kind of
a Hopefully Story would have been a better choice.
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